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Don't buy a Gunson's Eezibleed

My Eezibleed was at least 30 years old and the internal pickup tube had hardened, broken off and was unusable, so I wen...
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posted by steve
0 comments posted 1yr posted by steve

Pondering pump priming

Suppose I have a sump where water collects, and I want to pump this water out. The usual way is to immerse a pump in th...
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posted by theom+news
6 comments posted 1yr posted by theom+news

Portable aircon, fixed wall vent?

I am encountering a reluctance to have velcro on the outside of the casement window as it is unsightly when the window...
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posted by wibble
9 comments posted 1yr posted by wibble

OT: Reservations by Confused .com?

I made a reservation for my brother and his wife for a night next week at the local pub/hotel. I pre-paid by credit car...
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posted by davey
6 comments posted 1yr posted by davey

Toilet flush panic - visitors tomorrw

Close-coupled toilet c2005 and the syphon is not raising the water. It's a Jetflow syphon though not sure if that makes...
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posted by nospam
26 comments posted 1yr posted by nospam

PC Keyboard

Nightmare day today, having swapped 2 x PCs my router decided it would keep part of the old information and ignore my f...
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posted by jgnewsid
28 comments posted 1yr posted by jgnewsid

OT: Order of Arithmetic calculations

I came across https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=617963144657292&set=a.192016017252009today. For those who don't do F...
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posted by nospam
22 comments posted 1yr posted by nospam

Securing a wall plate

I'm building a large lean-to shed with 4" blockwork walls and soon need to fit a wall plate, which will have rafters ha...
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posted by nomail
9 comments posted 1yr posted by nomail

Covering rotten decking.

I have a large flat area[3.9m x 4.8m] of standard decking which has patches of rotten boards. The underframe is still i...
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posted by aa111
6 comments posted 1yr posted by aa111

Windows 10 - Order of Allocation of Drives

I have switched the functions 2 of my PCs, JGMAIN and JGSERVER. JGMAIN is my main PC with C (OS), D (AppsData), E (Data...
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posted by jgnewsid
8 comments posted 1yr posted by jgnewsid

Bosch drill keyless chuck

My aged Bosch PBS 700 RES drill doesn't get much use these days, but whenever I have to tighten the chuck, the pressure...
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posted by chris
4 comments posted 1yr posted by chris

OT: Legacy PC cables

I have moved house and I am having a clear-out. Am I right in thinking that *all* legacy cables (eg, serial, parallel,...
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posted by newsgroups
23 comments posted 1yr posted by newsgroups

wind’

Unbelievable, in more ways than one: Quote: So far in 2025, Britain has wasted £691,570,685 switching off wind turbines...
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posted by aero.spike
94 comments posted 1yr posted by aero.spike

Temporary Car Insurance

I am trying to insure my son to drive my car for 15 Days. The £100 temporary insurance quote doesn't stipulate a named...
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posted by me
7 comments posted 1yr posted by me