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OT: Worth a read, definitely.
Estonian Justice Minister, who lived through Soviet rule, teaches Greece's champagne socialist Justice Minister a lesson about communism.
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OT(ish) - small wind turbine longevity
A smallholding near us has a farm shop, nursery, grows much of their own vegetables. All nice and green. They also have a pair of small wind turbines near to the buildings (at least, I assume that...
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OT: Thunderbird Reply
I keep getting caught by this. Is there any way of making the Reply button in Thunderbird Newgroups reply to the group instead of the poster? I know there is a Followup button but Reply is just more...
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Microwave magnetron cover replacement
Our trusty combi microwave oven began sparking yesterday, or rather the panel between magnetron and oven cavity did. Some of the panel was carbonised on the oven cavity surface, which I managed to...
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Air compressor.
Fixed. It was the capacitor as several people here suggested. £5.95 inc P&P and it's working fine. And I got about a pint of water out of the reservoir. :o(
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OT Condel again.
Speaking the obvious truth as usual.
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Making a chainsaw saw horse for chopping firewood
I was researching how to make a saw horse to chop logs for firewood and came across this: ... hard to think of anythign simpler! A German man cleverly engineers a firewood chopping device out of his...
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R. Cott. 24
A plumber called! Briefly, before setting off on his annual holiday. There was some head shaking and muttering about the plan to re-install the boiler. Something to do with sludge hardening off in the...
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The word Wanker springs to mind
Actually that was the second word that sprung to mind. A Sheffield man has had a tattoo of an Ikea pencil to show his love of the Swedish homeware giant.
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Help! Radiators plumbing
Removing 2 radiators for gas central heating for decorating. Turned off thermo valve, turned off lock shield valve. I then checked with the air valve and all ok. I then removed the the thermo valves....
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Here is a DIY chair video.
Timber Frame Tools » Brilliant Woodworking Animation – Chair makes itself
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OT(?): UK road design - bridging hills
I noticed a story recently about a demolition snafu in Germany Which set me wondering why we don't see that design of road/bridge more in the UK ?? Anyone who knows the A417 in Gloucestershire near...
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Does DIY include making Xmas puddings?
I know this may the wrong place to ask this ( and the wrong time!!) but I g ot excellent bread making advice from this group some years ago. My wife passed away early this year and in digging into the...
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OT: Even for an Audi driver, that took some doing...
A motorist has died after driving the wrong way down a motorway.
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R. Cott. 23
Laying the grooved boards for the upstairs underfloor heating approaches. Mostly the floor joists run in a convenient direction but one large room has *ladderwork* between the dormer trusses. I will...
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