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Early incomer question

1920s or 1930s incomer rated 30A max, dual pole fused, nothing to stop inqu isitive fingers opening it without a tool,...
29 comments posted 8yrs
posted by tabbypurr
29 comments posted 8yrs posted by tabbypurr

OT: Thunderbird 52.9.0 leaves tabs open

I've noticed that Thunderbird now opens a new tab every time I use the down arrow to read the next message in a thread....
9 comments posted 8yrs
posted by Andrew97d-junk
9 comments posted 8yrs posted by Andrew97d-junk

hi-fi

Here's how to turn your phone into a hi-fi player https://www.dropbox.com/s/81rondjlt3c1nf1/IMG_2125.jpg?dl=0 Bill
58 comments posted 8yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
58 comments posted 8yrs posted by wrightsaerials

OT _ Back up Advice - PC

I have just bought a Seagate 1TB back-up drive. Should I use Windows to do the backup - or should I use the utility that...
31 comments posted 8yrs
posted by Somewhere
31 comments posted 8yrs posted by Somewhere

Delivery reports on text messages

Does a delivery report show that the message has been seen by the phone or just seen by the phones network provider? It...
5 comments posted 8yrs
posted by adamwadsworth
5 comments posted 8yrs posted by adamwadsworth

Press control Watertech help please

I have a high powered water pump that I use to pump water from a large rain water container. It is connected via the de...
0 comments posted 8yrs
posted by messageboards
0 comments posted 8yrs posted by messageboards

New wiki update

We have updated the mediawiki version to the latest 1.31 Although most of the changes are "behind the scenes"[1], one o...
0 comments posted 8yrs
posted by see.my.signature
0 comments posted 8yrs posted by see.my.signature

Toilet intermittent constant flush

Hi all, I have a toilet with a button push flush on the top. Every now and again, when you flush it, it continues to ru...
4 comments posted 8yrs
posted by leenowell
4 comments posted 8yrs posted by leenowell

Adjusting a TV

This is probably blindingly obvious to some, but wasn't to me ... We have an ordinary flat screen TV which receives lit...
27 comments posted 8yrs
posted by News
27 comments posted 8yrs posted by News

How flexible is floor paint?

Hi All, I have a small Zodiac inflatable dinghy (C260 'Roller') and there are a couple of bits I need to do on it. 1) T...
5 comments posted 8yrs
posted by news
5 comments posted 8yrs posted by news

Sony VTX-D800U

It's an elderly FreeView tuner. Have a few used only for radio. One has failed. The TOP 244Y chip has blown apart. Thin...
5 comments posted 8yrs
posted by dave
5 comments posted 8yrs posted by dave

Sagging Ceiling ?

I have a ceiling which sags 4 inches in the middle of a 4m x 4m room. I have stripped the old plaster and stiffened it...
8 comments posted 8yrs
posted by dicegeorge
8 comments posted 8yrs posted by dicegeorge

Damn fool electrical questions

We have a combined heat and light unit in the bathroom that has failed. One of these. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ceiling-...
33 comments posted 8yrs
posted by NOTSomeone
33 comments posted 8yrs posted by NOTSomeone

Sony Digicube Clock Radio

Old but still working - analogue radio, The time display is not as bright as it was - green fuorescent. Can it be tweake...
23 comments posted 8yrs
posted by Somewhere
23 comments posted 8yrs posted by Somewhere

BBC iPlayer HD problem

I distinctly recall that BBC iPlayer used to allow live "watch in HD" as an option for BBC1 in the recent past but it s...
32 comments posted 8yrs
posted by '''newspam'''
32 comments posted 8yrs posted by '''newspam'''