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    Brexit. We’re out!

    Quotes: Not a chance People have short memories. The UK government sold out fishing in 1970's to get better access for financial services, same thing will happen again." Also, when the common market had access to our fishing grounds the EU Provided grants to fishing operators to upgrade their...
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    Plug availability behind built in fridge freezer

    Pity the kitchen fitter didn't put the mains skt. in the cupboard below the isolator. That's what I'd have done.
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    Right nightmare of a job

    The rust on that one socket is probably due to corrosion from the mastic (assume it's mastic) on the socket surround. The acetic acid cure is not connection friendly.
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    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    I was thinking it was probably very damp. 1569269444 No, but I recall the jokes around the time, no picture it's probably the picture valve. Later used for transistorised tv's, also. I repair most things these days.
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    bloody computers and everything that gets in.

    Go to control panel and create an administrator account with a password. Then go to your account and change yours from an administrator account to a standard account, (but make sure you've created the administrator account first.) Any new permissions now require the admin. password to run. Get...
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    Mains cable blown out on two products

    As the fuse hasn't blown it looks like the cable has been bent causing some (or all) of the strands to break leading to a hot spot/arcing whilst in use. The fact that it hasn't been noticed before it failed means it was possibly tucked under the mattress (if so very lucky there wasn't a fire) or...
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    bloody ads again

    I've got adblock+ but it's disabled as I know the site gets revenue from ads - which are down the right hand side of the page. However, I'm also using noscript (add-on for Firefox browser) and the only script I allow is for this site, perhaps what you are seeing is related to the other scripts...
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    ES candle bulbs blowing

    For anyone interested the fuses were called Ballotini fuses, google for further info.
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    chandalier light goes dim as you add more lamps

    Original installation was all energy savers, these will work happily and in spec down to ~190v and will probably work at even lower voltages - will have to try it sometime, out of curiosity.
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    chandalier light goes dim as you add more lamps

    Sounds very dangerous, it seems the fitting is in series with the phase and adding more lamps into the chandelier reduces the resistance and thus the voltage drop across the chandelier so it gets progressively dimmer. Pull up some floorboards to see what's connected where, don't guess.
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    ES candle bulbs blowing

    Used to happen a lot with candle lamps as there's no room in the small envelope for an internal fuse such as in the standard gls lamp, hence the violent end. The girls in the lamp factory used to call the candle lamps " shooting stars". Merry Christmas. IIRC the tungsten evaporating from the...
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    Scary NON fused UK plug for sale on fleabay...

    Similar laptop adapter plug on Amazon from a company claiming to be in the uk? : 40% Off 20V 3.5A 70W Dell OR334 PA-1 PA-2 PA-6 PA-8 Inspiron 250 [PA-6 PA-8] - £7.91 : UK Laptop Adapters,UK Laptop Adapter, Laptops-Adapter.co.uk
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    A reminder to everyone - FatallyFlawed - Child Plug Socket Covers Campaign

    The likes of cpc are still selling them : 9138 - PRO ELEC - SAFETY COVER, UK PLUG PK5 | CPC Just about to email them. Don't know if this has been posted previously but too busy to trawl through 18 pages, sorry. :)

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