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    Road Tax rates

    Electric cars have similar emissions to diesel and petrol cars. The only difference is the exhaust pipe is hundreds of miles away.
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    Road Tax rates

    Recently paid our 2005 mini- £205
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    Road Tax rates

    doubt that it is that low but, my sons both have VWs and pay a third of the road tax that we pay on our Mini and Honda. The reason is that they benefit from the fraud VW committed a few years ago. I am at a loss as to why the UK government have not been able to get the difference back from...
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    Anyone know where you can buy tail stock wheels?

    Welcome Max, You could epoxy some 15mm I/d pipe into a suitable bit of wood and turn a wheel. Leave enough pipe protruding from the wood to fit into your chuck, turn the wheel and then remove the excess pipe.
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    Advice on Kitchen Cabinet Furniture Doodads

    Porker, would be interested in which under cabinet lighting that you have settled on. sorry about the hijack Droogs
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    Advice on Kitchen Cabinet Furniture Doodads

    Wickes, screwfix, tool station get the catalogues so you can browse and see the doda’s correct name. not saying any or all of these are the best but you can at least figure what’s what. I am close to finishing a howdens supplied kitchen into our new home, first time I have fitted a kitchen and...
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    Chipped edges on new planes and do new planes need sharpening before use?

    There is no point in having a ready to go plane as it just delays the need to learn how to fettle by 30 minutes use. fancy tools are no substitute for ability.
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    Masks and Specs and Beards and Shopping

    Not only that, I just fall into the grouping of expendable members of society who are inconveniencing your current lifestyle. Even though my taxes were funding your furlough.
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    Masks and Specs and Beards and Shopping

    Can you cite peer reviewed research that confirms that any one with antibodies is not a spreader? maybe as a world renown virologist, you have documented this somewhere already?
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    Masks and Specs and Beards and Shopping

    Your GSv respirator has a valve therefore you are not providing any protection to others if you have the virus. You might just as well go mask less. please rethink your actions.
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    Donating a Tree

    That is a nice idea. I live on the edge of the national forest (Charnwood to Cannock area) I know they do schemes like this but don't have details. Try googling national forest organisation. Slightly off topic, I was collecting acorns yesterday and will put about ten in a plant pot , cover it...
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    Repurposing a blunt file?

    files are far too brittle. I know that you are not proposing to do this, but for anyone considering it, just don’t!!
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    Using a shop vac around the house... bad idea/good idea?

    I have three dysons.... all rescued from skips. People don’t clean the filters and then chuck them away cos they don’t suck. having said that, the house cleaner is a Gtech which is brilliant! I can wizz around the whole house in ten minutes. The deal included a totally independent hand held...
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    Not everyone finds woodwork quite so easy.

    This forum is something quite special. or rather the people on this forum are.
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    T5 Technical Shooting Record. New Handle/Questions.

    Just to annoy you! you could have used a bog standard number 5. and made a Pete Maddex shooting attachment gizmo that is more comfortable and easier to use than a side handle (i suspect).
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    Library shelves

    I am sure that this is an egg sucking lesson. But ages ago Steve Maskery posted about a shelf rack system that I had never come across before. It was quite impressive; although as I understand it was commonly used in posh libraries. I would not mind seeing that post again if anyone can track it...
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    Stanley 50s instructions.

    Hi Peter, The thread is 16 years old. putting your e mail number on an open forum is likely to get your in box overwhelmed with spam, suggest that you edit it to remove ASAP.
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    Library shelves

    Must be a very remote dwelling if there is literally no MDF within five miles.
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    Curry's. - Do NOT buy anything from them at the moment.

    sometime (maybe sooner than you imagine) you will be thinking back to the good old days when the consumer law you quote was in force.
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