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Where can one get..

Those pulleys one used to find on clothes lines ie a pulley and an outer housing with a ring at either end all made of...
15 comments posted 8yrs
posted by briang1
15 comments posted 8yrs posted by briang1

Russian nuclear batteries ?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/04/russias_nuclear_battery_ambition_see_a_10x_increase_in_power/ Russian boffins...
13 comments posted 8yrs
posted by jethro_uk
13 comments posted 8yrs posted by jethro_uk

Pumping rainwater....

HI I soon will have several IBCs at ground level to collect rain water. (I have new pipework in place for the toilets a...
43 comments posted 8yrs
posted by i.love.spam
43 comments posted 8yrs posted by i.love.spam

Spooky rubber cement disappearance

I went to repair a bike puncture this afternoon - and opened two tubes of rubber solution to find that they were empty!...
6 comments posted 8yrs
posted by real-not-anti-spam-address
6 comments posted 8yrs posted by real-not-anti-spam-address

Quick wash on a washing machine.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44340082 I only bought my washing machine because it did a quick wash (14 to 18 minutes dep...
43 comments posted 8yrs
posted by adamwadsworth
43 comments posted 8yrs posted by adamwadsworth

Crack problem

http://i64.tinypic.com/30k8yts.jpg Normally I'd gently angle ground round a brick to remove it, how can I get the job do...
26 comments posted 8yrs
posted by tabbypurr
26 comments posted 8yrs posted by tabbypurr

Raised bed against a fence

I have a recently-erected six-foot high garden fence consisting of plastic posts and panels, not dissimilar to this: ht...
31 comments posted 8yrs
posted by mail
31 comments posted 8yrs posted by mail

Appliance bulb

I bought two of these at Maplins, at 80% off. I now realise I'm not sure what they are for. The last time I went to a '...
16 comments posted 8yrs
posted by newsgroups
16 comments posted 8yrs posted by newsgroups

Pissed off with Printers

I probably only print about 100 pages a year - but usually when I come to use dthe Epson Printer it needs the heads cle...
52 comments posted 8yrs
posted by Somewhere
52 comments posted 8yrs posted by Somewhere

[OT] SMS from TPO to GiffGaff

Anyone else unable to text or call from TPO to GiffGaff? Since the 17 May I've been unable to text The Lad, he's on Gif...
6 comments posted 8yrs
posted by allsortsnotthisbit
6 comments posted 8yrs posted by allsortsnotthisbit

Electyricity costs

I have just received a notce of tarriff incvrease to 17.51p per unit https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/data-portal/breakdown-ele...
38 comments posted 8yrs
posted by tnp
38 comments posted 8yrs posted by tnp

Miele dishwasher help

So our Miele G5500 tripped the RCD yesteday very early in its cycle and continued to do so. I connected it to a mains c...
11 comments posted 8yrs
posted by nospam
11 comments posted 8yrs posted by nospam

Drilling aluminium

Son has made a frame to cover his circular fish pond, and now is going to fit several triangular aluminium sheets to ma...
54 comments posted 8yrs
posted by Billaboard
54 comments posted 8yrs posted by Billaboard

Computer help to connect to internet

I gave this PC away to a guy for his business it is old and uses win xp, I had it working here with a wi-fi (stick) His...
121 comments posted 8yrs
posted by noname
121 comments posted 8yrs posted by noname