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OT - decent Adroid phone ?500 or under?

Following on from the other phone thread, now looking at a replacement phone. Preferably £500 or under. Average for cam...
73 comments posted 7yrs
posted by wibble
73 comments posted 7yrs posted by wibble

Friday's Auction - Old radios, Hi-Fi etc

https://www.twgaze.co.uk/auctions/catalogues-and-auctions/current-catalogues/sound-and-vision-including-the-taylor-colle...
4 comments posted 7yrs
posted by davey
4 comments posted 7yrs posted by davey

Flat Cable Trunking

I need to find about 3metres of trunking to take two cables. One from a digital projector to a computer, the other the...
8 comments posted 7yrs
posted by pinnerite
8 comments posted 7yrs posted by pinnerite

Parkinson Cowen Windsor gas fire service

Following service instructions to remove burners, but burners will not budge. This is an old fire but used regularly, c...
3 comments posted 7yrs
posted by appleservice
3 comments posted 7yrs posted by appleservice

OT: Podcasts vanished after Thunderbird 60.4.0

I have been avoiding upgrading to V60 because of the problems that others mentioned (spacebar etc). Annoyingly somethin...
2 comments posted 7yrs
posted by Andrew97d-junk
2 comments posted 7yrs posted by Andrew97d-junk

OT: spam phone call.

Just had a call meant to be from BT saying my my line will be cut off unless, etc. The usual pre-recorded message. A ba...
30 comments posted 7yrs
posted by dave
30 comments posted 7yrs posted by dave

Thermodynamic Solar Panels

How effective are these ? Are they much of an improvement over the old types ?
17 comments posted 7yrs
posted by tpmccann
17 comments posted 7yrs posted by tpmccann

P poor shower output

Just moved into a new house and although the bath and washbasin taps have a very powerful jet stream, the Mira mixer sh...
12 comments posted 7yrs
posted by swldxer1958
12 comments posted 7yrs posted by swldxer1958

Infrequent sewer inspections?

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/gigantic-fatberg-found-devon-sewer-size-six-double-decker-buses-123224571.html Yet another gi...
1 comments posted 7yrs
posted by NOTsomeone
1 comments posted 7yrs posted by NOTsomeone

Slow cistern fill

Hi, All of a sudden the cistern on my concealed push button toilet started filling very slowly. I had a look and it see...
9 comments posted 7yrs
posted by mikeywats84
9 comments posted 7yrs posted by mikeywats84

OT: Schuko sockets (again)

I had an electrician install a double Schuko socket. Each socket had its own terminals (live - neutral - earth) and the...
55 comments posted 7yrs
posted by newsgroups
55 comments posted 7yrs posted by newsgroups

Connecting to copper waste pipe

My son is renovating a 1960s bathroom. The soil pipe is steel (easily connected to plastic with a rubber adapter) but I...
10 comments posted 7yrs
posted by nothanks
10 comments posted 7yrs posted by nothanks