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Fight With a Cash Machine

I withdrew some cash last week from a machine located in the village Co-Op. Put all the details in then stood there won...
23 comments posted 1yr
posted by jgnewsid
23 comments posted 1yr posted by jgnewsid

New TV set

Current main set is a Panasonic Viera 36" plus Humax recorder and wired headphones, aerial and internet input. Principl...
55 comments posted 1yr
posted by tim
55 comments posted 1yr posted by tim

Computer Cases

I have been looking for a computer case with 8 hot swappable drives for a while and found a Silverstone case that seems...
7 comments posted 1yr
posted by jgnewsid
7 comments posted 1yr posted by jgnewsid

broadband ADSL works, but not landline?

Hi All we returned from a short visit away yesterday to find landline problems... The phone screen was saying 'line cor...
17 comments posted 1yr
posted by jkn+es
17 comments posted 1yr posted by jkn+es

Treating Old Scaffold Board Shelves

I've made up some shelves in the front room alcoves out of used scaffold boards. I gave them a quick going over with an...
1 comments posted 1yr
posted by patchmoney
1 comments posted 1yr posted by patchmoney

Solid wood worktops - comparison of woods

Having gone all round the houses and back looking at different materials for a new worktop in the galley in our little...
18 comments posted 1yr
posted by cl
18 comments posted 1yr posted by cl

Sigh - LED dimmable bulbs (again) which brand?

I've run out of non-LED BC bulbs. I need some warm white 100W equivalent to replace the next one which fails. [Amazon i...
18 comments posted 1yr
posted by wibble
18 comments posted 1yr posted by wibble

OT: A different viewpoint of LA fires

Although the fires in the LA area are terrible, I was brought back to reality when I contacted a friend who lives in Sa...
6 comments posted 1yr
posted by davey
6 comments posted 1yr posted by davey

DIY Electro-Waterwheel

River nearby? Set to it . . . https://www.instructables.com/The-Waterwheel-Project-V20/
55 comments posted 1yr
posted by patchmoney
55 comments posted 1yr posted by patchmoney

Lovely description of an explosion

“rapid unscheduled disassembly”, the company’s euphemism for an explosion. I love these twists of the language, disguis...
11 comments posted 1yr
posted by davey
11 comments posted 1yr posted by davey

OT: Fire at Moss Landing

See: and they are not tackling the fire. These battery fires are no joke. -- The truth of the matter is that we Scots h...
54 comments posted 1yr
posted by tim
54 comments posted 1yr posted by tim

An invention?

Ultrasonic vibration undoes the fixing pins on my watch! On three occasions, Dentist twice and today during a hospital...
3 comments posted 1yr
posted by tim
3 comments posted 1yr posted by tim

An earth leakage fault has started to appear.

First time yesterday and again today. I was sitting around for an hour yesterday thinking it was a power cut, but inves...
19 comments posted 1yr
posted by reading.mostly
19 comments posted 1yr posted by reading.mostly