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What's this possibly plumbing item
Anyone know what this is: or who makes/made them and where to get spares?
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Weird! why is there no way to unscrew my basin waste?
I have a pop up waste (controlled as usual by a rod) on a bathroom basin that I was hoping to change to a sprung waste, cos the pop up thingie no longer works. BUT having removed the rod and basin...
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6 years ago
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OT: accessing old emails from UKLinux
In the dark days of 56K modems and tenner-a-month accounts I had an account with UK and out of interest I just tried to login but I don't think it exists any longer. I then tried $telnet 110 and it...
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New Wheeler Dealers
You do know that he was already a very well known mechanic BEFORE he appeared on Wheeler Dealers, don't you?
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6 years ago
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5mm Sliding door seals
I'd like to replace the seal at the bottom of a curved sliding door. The door is 5mm thick glass and around long 700mm. The "tail is around 12mm long but the gap is just over 16mm so it could be...
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LED indicator for 240V power
Just starting to work on the extractor hood fan that failed over Christmas. It is a LAM2502/3 as detailed here There is a 5 button control panel at the front of the hood. Light push on/push off...
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6 years ago
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Spare 13A switch in wall
In our kitchen, there are four electrical things all together. Dual 13A sockets, and two switches below, one with a neon and one just plain. Fine, except I can't work out at the moment what the second...
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6 years ago
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Old smoke alarms recycle ?
I have some old smoke alarms, is there any use for them or must i dump them, if so where to recycle them? [george]
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6 years ago
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Central Heating Circulator Pump
My pump has got noisy, it's 35 years old. I propose to replace it. I'm wary of circulator pumps in the £20-£40 range. Has anybody tried the CBS Intel 15-60 130, about £70, which claims to be A...
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Mattress, which one?
Friends wants a new very firm mattress. or is £84.99, oddly cheap. Can anyone shed any light on this or other mat tress choices? She wants 5ft kingsize extra firm. NT
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6 years ago
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Electric Oven Temp Control
I've noticed that over the last couple of weeks, food has been coming out of our oven under-done. From time to time in the past I've used an infra- red laser/gun type device to check the dial temp...
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6 years ago
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Heating Oil Purity
Anyone know how much water is permitted in kerosene? I bought (just in case of emergency) two 20 litre gerry cans full of oil from a small independent supplier where I live and discovered quite by...
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.jpg enlarge -Windows 10
This is a copy of the entire instruction manual for a carcam, just as supplied by the manufacturer. 8x pages of instruction, all of the pages on one side of an A4 sheet in a landscape of 4 x 2 grid....
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Grid's a bit iffy
It's at 45GW and climbing - but we are 3 reactors down according to: Sizewell B is planned, but Hartlepool and Hunterston B both have 1/2 reactors tripped out and the latter is marked as "return on...
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OT Bitcoin pyramid
BITCOIN Pyramid A lot of monkeys lived near a village. ??????? One day a merchant came t o the village to buy these monkeys!?????? ?? He announced that he will buy the monkeys @ $100 ea ch. ?? The...
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