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car battery rules

Why do most car manafactures say in the hand book and in haynes manuals when starting work say disconnect the NEGATIVE termonal only.Surley a disconnected battery is disconnected whatever way you...

newtron

electrical outlet switch

Why is there a switch for every electrical outlet here in the UK? What purpose does the switch serve? Is it a safety issue? In the US, we don't have a switch for every electrical...

naz

electrical

is carbon dust a conductorof electricity

Guinevere

Old style paper driving licences

I still have the old style paper driving licence but my colleagues inform me that this is now illegal and I need a photo one. I don't remember hearing anything about changing it on the news...

Impret-Sir

Can anyone explain how my electric toothbrush charger works?

This may seem like a silly question, but I have wondered about this as long as I have had the brush! The brush sits on a plastic, and therefore presumably non-conductive, post on the charger, which...

Booldawg

One piece at a time

Being inspired by Johnny Cash, I have decided to take a job at GM on the assembly line with the intention of sneaking out various car parts so I can eventually build my own Cadillac. From what...

dmsjps

Renault Megane

Can anyone please help? My niece has bought her first car, a Renault Megane (R-reg, I think). The other day, her blip wouldn't open the doors. She changed the batteries, but it still wouldn't work....

Booldawg

computer trouble

My PC is a couple of months behind in rent, and as a result is about to be evicted from its IP Address and forced to live the life of a Roaming Profile. I'm worried it will get in the wrong...

andy2202

problems with landlord

i lived with 3 friends between the 1st of jan and the 1st july. we all had separate lease's. we each recieved a letter today (10/08/05) saying that we were due a sum of ?3k. turned...

tartufo

floorboards

Have just got my floorboards polished, they were a honey colour before and i stupidly decided to stain them dark brown. I really dont like the colour, its too dark, it makes my home smaller, and its...

Alixw

somewhere to store photographs

Is there something i can buy where i can store all my photographs? I'm getting fed up of keeping all my photos in shoe boxes in my cupboard! And dont really want to put them all in albums cos that...

WeAreBongo

Planting Near Privets

Calling all green-fingered cycber-peeps. I have a question. I have a not-so-sunny border adjacent to a line of privets, but anything I plant there seems to wither and die. Does...

JoAnnMul

1st time gardener needs help..!!!

I have just cleared my(larger than i thought)garden of weeds & brambles(27 sacks & 8 bales of twigs) I also managed to cut down 1 of 4 large conifers..Which i have now shredded thanks 2 a...

rolo_chihuah

my kittens tail

hi we recently brought home a kitten we also have two gogs a chihuahua and a lab x my labx has had hold of the 8 week old kitten and she now has difficulty walking her tail just dangles (i think its...

b13thy

Snail trail

I, being of a squemish nature, usually have nothing to do with anything that has more than 4 legs but i was just outside having a ciggie and i saw a snail on the pavement making its way to what i...

Jules001

what could do this and why?

we have just returned home from our holiday and found 3 cobble type stones on our lawn. We had a relative coming in each day to water etc and she said she saw the stones, there was 1 the first day, 2...

RAYMAN

BT Broadband

My neice has just had bt broadband installed,she is at a loss on how to send and receive e-mails as there doesn,t seem to be any symbols for this. What is she doing wrong?

the>one

spywear

i need some form of spy wear for my pc any advice would be apreciated........sorry if this is a boring question but im not that ofay with all things tech....thanks

Jimsy

Road Markings

Is it true that (particularly in Scotland) if part of a street with yellow lines (let say 3 metres) is dug up and resurfaced, until the lines are actually replaced, the restrictions are invalid ?

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