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Pneumatic two hose road testing.

Is there any poster in this group that works in the field of two tube pneumatic testing of traffic stats and how does t...
17 comments posted 8yrs
posted by haggisz
17 comments posted 8yrs posted by haggisz

TV aerial ?

STWNFI would like a TV in a corner of the kitchen where I cant get an aerial feed without running cable all round the r...
14 comments posted 8yrs
posted by news
14 comments posted 8yrs posted by news

Sealant for a patio

I've got a new patio, laid in sandstone. It so happens that the area I'd intended for the dustbins, compost bins, etc i...
8 comments posted 8yrs
posted by vir.campestris
8 comments posted 8yrs posted by vir.campestris

Cable issue

http://i66.tinypic.com/k0lff7.jpg That's cables entering electricity meters. These are not supplier meters. T he meters...
6 comments posted 8yrs
posted by tabbypurr
6 comments posted 8yrs posted by tabbypurr

smoke alarms ....

are optical smoke alarms better for less false alarms than ionising ones...in practice I mean ? .....
14 comments posted 8yrs
posted by jim.gm4dhj
14 comments posted 8yrs posted by jim.gm4dhj

Database interfaces

If I've asked this before, I'm sorry, but once again I'm hoping to move databases to a new to me machine, and feel I ou...
14 comments posted 8yrs
posted by Billaboard
14 comments posted 8yrs posted by Billaboard

Kitchen sinks and taps

so, you fit a white ceramic or composite sink, surely you want white taps (as I had previously), not chrome (or any othe...
15 comments posted 8yrs
posted by tims_new_home
15 comments posted 8yrs posted by tims_new_home

OT: De-Googleify your Android phone!

Check this out: https://www.zdnet.com/article/eelo-a-google-less-android-alternative- emerges/
0 comments posted 8yrs
posted by iqbalali898
0 comments posted 8yrs posted by iqbalali898

Ideas wanted: cheap shed wall

I need to replace some asbestos-cement cladding on one side of a large shed that's currently used as a wood shed. The w...
8 comments posted 8yrs
posted by nothanks
8 comments posted 8yrs posted by nothanks

USB flexible cameras

I want a little camera to put through holes in floorboards, to check for leaking pipes and the like. USB, attached to t...
3 comments posted 8yrs
posted by NOTsomeone
3 comments posted 8yrs posted by NOTsomeone

Bamboo Cups, plates, trays etc.

The thread on Bamboo scaffolding reminded me of some Bamboo cups, plates, trays etc I've seen for sale on various place...
21 comments posted 8yrs
posted by no.sp
21 comments posted 8yrs posted by no.sp

Them new-fangled flourescent lights

Gentlemen, Back in the 1960s, when tubes were coming into service more and more, it was a widely held belief that they...
26 comments posted 8yrs
posted by curd
26 comments posted 8yrs posted by curd

OT: Bamboo scaffolding collapsed in Hong Kong.

Interesting picture of this in the Telegraph online. Bamboo not quite as flexible as believed ??. The idea of bamboo jav...
6 comments posted 8yrs
posted by Andrew97d-junk
6 comments posted 8yrs posted by Andrew97d-junk

Ford Focus "Engine fault" and "Transmission fault"

Just attempted to fire up the Focus hatchback, manual with a zetec engine. It wont start presumably because the transmi...
46 comments posted 8yrs
posted by snotty_archi_tarquers_blenkins
46 comments posted 8yrs posted by snotty_archi_tarquers_blenkins