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Carol Anne

vintage elevators

How were lifts in tall buildings controlled before the advent of microprocessors ? The lift in our building has been in constant use since 1960 and is now only being brought up to date with new...

biljou71

Bread Machine Manual

Has anyone come across a manual online for Goodmans Cuisine Breadmaker please. If so please let me know as searching has been unrewarding

taliesin238

Freezing sky cards!!

Why do people put their sky subscription card in the freezer?? I was told once but can't remember why. Does it work has anyone actually done it??

dranfield

prepayment meter cards

I've got a prepayment electric meter but no magnetic prepayment cards.How can I reprogramme the meter so that it can take cards that I can buy off a supplier.This is not an electric meter supplied by...

R1Geezer

Shaken but not stirred....

goes the famous drink order from Mr Bond. Now does "stirred" mean somthing different from the normal understanding of the phrase? I mean once a drink is shaken what difference will "stiring" or not...

My Angel Pie

Play Station 2 not playing standard DVD movies

H all, my son has a PS2 (new about 3 years ago) he enjoys playing games and of course watching movie DVD's - the problem is we have a problem that the machine won't play some if not all of his movies...

leeandjoanne

help me im stressed !!!

hi i have the samsung d900 mobile fone and my neice bluetoothed a silly tune to me which says nannana i gota rmessage and you cant read it ! ive tried to set this as my message tone and i dont know...

jane mark 2

what do I do??

I have an extremely long list of favourites saved on my computer and I wish to delete most of them. I have been deleting them individually, but it is going to take an awfully long time. Is there a way...

pingu748

Adjustable thermostats on radiators ..

Please, in laymans terms, can someone explain the relation that adjustable radiator valves have in central heating circuit ... whats the best / optimum setting for the valves, the thermostat and the...

gucciman

clothes size conversion

does anyone know how you convert trouser waist sizes from italian to uk? i.e. i have a pair of trousers that are an italian 50, whats that in uk size? thanks

daneswalk

paint

how can i take paint of woodwork without using nitro-mors as the smell brings on allergies tried other methods but nothing seems to work thank you for any help

twinny-15

CANON powershot A60

Hi my grandaughter 15 yrs has the above camera it suddenly stopped working she tried new memory card ,batteries but still not working ...said she had problem closing memory card door ...any ideas...

voula

transferring home deed

my parents reside in phila pa and are up in age. They want to leave their home to me and I would like to know what is the process for drawing up paperwork for this. can it be done without legal help...

caz99

help with rented accomadation

hi just wandering i am jue to have a baby in september an just wanted to no if i am on income suport and i want to rent a privatr house will i get help of any body towards the rent has ive bin told if...

Ty55

Chinese Flying Candle Lantern

How do I build a Chinese Flying Candle lantern

Velvetee

iPod volume cap

Hi does anyone know if there are any sites where I can download a patch which cancels out the volume cap on my UK purchased iPod nano 8GB? I have been to a couple of sites, but the programmes are only...

unzy

Photography

can anybody tell me if the Canon EF 100-400mm works well with the Canon 400D and a 2x II extender

Rtaxron

Suitcase combination lock help.?

I have a suitcase that I have not used for years but I cant remember the numbers. Its open and I pushed a thingy on the back of the lock inside the suitcase and all the numbers went to zero, but I...

Jbird

How to Connect My New Lathe

I want to connect my new Colchester Bantam Lathe. I have an isolator box which is fed by a 3ph transformer. From the transformer a soft 3 core cable goes into the isolator/switch box which has the 3...

muchlovex

Insurance for Two Cars

Hi, Can i get insurance for 2 vehicles? I have my own car and my partner has a car. My partner will be getting a company car soon so she will be giving me her car therefore I will be selling my own...