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muchlovex

Cheapest Pay as You Go Mobile Tariffs

i am looking for the cheapest pay as go you tarif which will not charge for listening to voice messages. Thanks in advance

jimbob757

Diesel engine starting problem.

I have got a 2.5 Ford Transit diesel engine in my boat . It recently had the head gsket renewed and it is now not starting as good as it was. It gets worse when the engine ghas runn for some time.

nedreadnibor

Potentiometers

What are the first signs you have damaged a potentiometer (for electrc guitar) by excessive heat during soldering.

Etonite

35mm Colour negatives

I have literally hundreds of 35 mm colour negative strips which I want to digitise and put on CD and on my PC. Does anybody know of a good but cheap piece of kit to do this?

Metz

fan oven

My oven is making a horrible noise from the fan,noisy rattle, and the heat isn't circulating... has it died or can it be repaired? It's over 10 years old

andyhillhos

problem accessing secure web sites

i recently upgraded to 2000 pro from windows 98 because i was having the above problem. i contacted my isp and they ran a host of checks and said all was fine with the connection. They believe it is...

nedreadnibor

Potentiometers for guitars

Why would the ohm reading be lower after soldering a potentiometer for guitars. E.g: before soldering 522K and after soldering 505K. Has the pot been fried or is this normal?

Loosehead

EUphobe or EUphile??

It's no secret I'm a sceptic, however what I was wondering though is that EUphiles on here generally say that most of the country is sceptic and have been turned as such by the media, anyway on AB it...

pureevoke

Gas Boiler

I bought a magnet that fits on a gas or oil boiler it is saving around 15%. How does it work?

Mattk

Ebay protocol for faulty items?

I recently sold 4 Xbox 360 games thru Ebay.The buyer has contacted me today to tell me that 3 of the 4 games are not working. They were working fine before despatch so what should I do? I was going to...

sexyshel2312

nearest train station

which is the nearest train station to emes road, erith in kent, london??? cheers.

shopaholic84

Adjusting Sekonda watch strap

I have just bought a sekonda ladies watch which has a bracelet strap http://www.sekonda.co.uk/index.php?fuseaction= Range.view&ID=2&SubCat=8&ModelID=2 42. It says that the links can be...

andy the dri

how up and over garage door works

how does an up and over garage door work

tigwig

Can't get to bulbs!

Nearly all the bulbs are gone in my light and I don't know how to get to them to take them out! It is a fancy light from B&Q that has long dangly square bits and the bulbs are tiny!!!! Does anyone...

radek135

how do you pm someone thats left an answer for you?

daffy654

Saturation Diving

Can anyone tell me what saturation diving is? I have googled it and the links were either unclear in their definition or outright contradicted each other. TIA

ernestoba

combination boiler

I have just had a combination boiler installed; you know the one, no inmersion tank or inmersion heater.My next door neighbour tells me that I should have kept the old type boiler as that with the new...

the-trier

drayton digistat 1

I'm changing my thermstat to the to the drayton digistat 1 and the drayton I want to take off has 4 wires, yellow which is attached to a numeber 3, red attached to (L), blue attached to (N) and the...

HAHA..

freeview

on the freeview website is says i annot recieve freeview however my brother lives just down the road and has freeview it it wirth risking buying a freeview box

kitcatkitten

excel page breaks

Hi all, I'm looking for a way to print out an excel document so that all the rows with the same unit in one column are printed on the same page, while other unit numbers are on diff. pages. I think...