How it Works

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Here you can find out about how almost anything works! Ask anything, from how solar panels work to how the heart works and we'll our best to explain.

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tigwig

smoke alarm problems

At 5.20 this morning to my delight my mains operated smoke alarms started bleeping intermittently. We managed to disconnect them from the ceiling and take out the battery to find that they still...

averley

Industrial Sewing Machines

I want to invest in an industrial sewing machine but don't know what make or model to go for does anyone know enough about them to recommend one

jacko50

power supply

I recently had my house wiring changed around (plug sockets) now my fuse box keeps triping off sometimes just the sockets and other times everything goes off, i have had the sparky back but he says he...

valjoan

bobbin winding on Singer 760 sewing machine

I have a Singer 760 Touch and Sew sewing machine. Having no manual I am mystified as to how to wind thread on the bobbin. I gather the bobbins unscrew for easy thread removal, but I can see no...

Miss-taken

European plug

I got an amplifier for Christmas that for some unknown reason has come with a 2 pin European plug. It works fine if I plug it straight into a shaver adapter plug but is this safe? If not - what should...

fastronn151

cake car

what did they do with the cake car after it it was filmed

Dee Sa

Thomsom DT16300 digitsl recorder

I bought the above from the tv channel because the demo showed how easy it was to record and they would ask would you like to record the rest of the series, great I thought I will record all the...

mkjuk

how do web browsers make mone

Where is the revenue from creating browsers such as firefox or opera?

petesgrayz

Canon printer

I am trying to load the drivers for my new Canon Lazer printer. I keep getting a message, can't recognize USB, any ideas please.

michaelol

i tunes transfer from desktop to laptop

What is the easiest way for me to transfer all my i-tunes ( over 4000 songs ) from my desktop to a new laptop .

taliesin238

Leechers and seeders??

What are these?

Dudies73

Local Quiz

The answers are all animals Mother's mother in the nursery (4 letters) Not a bowler (6)

lugs

camcorder disk copying

can anyone tell me how to get the recordings from my camcorder on to computer,the camcorder is a 8cm disk type ,computer will not read the disks ?

REDHEAD24

hair exstentions

i have hair exstions 100 % real human hair i know this sounds odd , but whe re does that hair come from ?do people donate it or what ?

ads129315

Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 '54'

i have a corsa, its 1.2 54 reg and for some reason the engine management lite has no come on! wot would be wrong? thanks ppl ads

KAZ

i Pod Videos

I have just got the new i Pod which can play videos, Please can someone tell me if it is possible to put your own video clips onto it? ie: Directly from "My videos" on your PC? How do you do this?...

~max~

Santa hat on a picture

Hi! I would like to edit a picture I have on my pc and put a santa hat on the head, but I can't find how to! I have tried in paint, but the pic of the hat isn't a clipart so contains background that I...

bronners

points above sea level

how do they measure the points above sea level.the reason i ask is we have a marker on our cottage that somebody comes and checks every year or 2.but how the heck do they know that we are 360m above...

FUZZYBEE

i-pod touch

My hubby and I both have new i-pods but we share a laptop will that be a problem? Will each ipod have its own site (so to speak). Will it recognise which is which when we want to download stuff.? or...

Cmitchell

Samsung Printer Problem

Hi, we've got a Samsung Printer. It's an CLP-500. Everytime we print the finished paper comes out with pale faint vertical stripes. We've already emptied the toner waste tray (and cleaned, dried &...