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Attaching a fence/screen to the top of a wall with stone "battlements" on it!
I've been asked to make some kind of screen to hide an unsightly bit of roo f in next door's yard. These photos show where it needs to go. I've suggested what is effectively a fence with vertical...
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Cheap Chinese generators
I rent some stables and a field where there is no mains electricity. I manage with cordless tools for most jobs, and with a 900 W (inverter) genny which will run the angle grinder, a mains drill, or...
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OT: Blatant copy!
Anyone else noticed that this is a copy of this tune?
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Franke Water Filter Cartridges
Are the "compatibles" any good?
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How to have several identical wireless doorbells respond to the same code?
I have this amazing wireless doorbell. I've mounted the chimer on a little wooden stand that I can move from room to room. However, I'm not always in the room where the chime is. So, for example, in...
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ALDI Table Vice
If you're thinking of buying one of ALDI's £5.99 table vices, don't bother. I bought one, and it's total crap. Neither of the threads - for clamping it to a table and opening and closing the jaws -...
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Removing GU10 bulbs
I bought a strip light fitting holding four GU10 lamps, from John Lewis. It is mounted to the concrete ceiling by its central mount point. John Lewis supplied four lamps. I fitted them and switched...
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9v battery protective cap
Trying to find similar in the UK: anyone any idea if anyone sells them - other than ebay plus postage of course http://uk.farnell.com/keystone/96/protective-cap-9v/dp/1716316
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Dripping toilet
Hi all. This sounds a weird one to me. In the bathroom of my daughter's flat there is a toilet, sink, and bath. The bath has mixer taps and a flexible hose to a shower head. Cold water is mains fed....
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Personal organiser
Anyone care to recommend a modest calendar/organiser for Windows 7? Preferably freeware:-)
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Imperial compression fitting
Dismantling some ancient piping, I got left with the hot and cold feed in some old steel pipe. There was some sort of brass connector into that which was so firm that I could not budge it. Sticking...
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Bitcoin Mining
All the publicity about the "Bitcoin Bubble" over Christmas got me thinking. Having discovered a piece of software called *very originally* "Bitcoin Miner" free in the W10 app store I let it run for a...
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Heater on 1.5mm lighting circuit ?
Is it OK to put my 500 watt frost heater on a lighting circuit? It's so that the plastic header tank doesn't freeze. Just count it as 2 amps for calculating the length of 1.5mm cable allowed? Igenix...
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OT: dense mouldable material for a cycle trainer flywheel.
Ok folks, weirdish question - but you are smart people Can people suggest a dense material, mouldable (e.g. putty), and ideally al so curable (e.g. clay/ epoxy resin etc.) I want to be able to fill a...
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Scruffy bastards
Customers having an extension built that let their dogs shit all over the house. You cannot work in a house like that. Any way I scooped the shit up using the baking tray from their oven, threw the...
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