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Your pension could buy you an annuity, thats the income contract of over a century. Annuity rates are linked to fixed interest rates and which are linked to interest rates, which are very low. Annuity rates are even lower if you want an income for Mrs, and lower still if you want an income that...

Ive gone off levis, m&s are cut too tight last batch i got last year, but H&M selvedge are good, wrangler still ok, and carhart are good if you have long legs, tommy hilfiger arent good value for money compared to h&m but are good. I have a great fjalraven coat so will try their trousers...

Best thing is if your in doubt stick it in your basket, maybe then click save for later, they will then update you on price changes in your basket and possibly offer you a lightning deal or voucher. Vouchers recently have been good for just 15 minutes but they can be restarted, sometimes, by...

Instarted with an Accurist for £160, it lasted ten years and would have gone on if they removed the water, waterproof but didnt like sea water. I wouldnt buy another as the servicing costs rose from £16 to £50 every two years and that was a long time ago. I replaced it with a tissot which was...

I did not type old water, lol. What goes into a urinal. Clever program though.

I’m often picking stuff up from auction, holes are common, i use sikka treatment, they have a few, it does smell like old piss for a while, but it only kills the bugs as they try to leave the wood via a new hole, treatment is on the outer few millimetres only. I had success in removing the smell...

Never heard of tiger nuts. I liked various gob stoppers, I ate loads of cola rola balls, silver ball bearing style sweets that left aluminium dust all over the inside of the paper bag, no wonder my memory is so bad. The best gob stoppers were dinosour eggs, they were 10p each so could only...

I’ve insulated two now, i use 25mm cellotex on the walls, between a 2x1 frame screwed to the walls, then either plaster board or ply covering. The ceiling i used 100mm the first one, my second one i wrapped 25mm polystyrene in a foil sheet so that if rain ever got in it would run the length of...

I complained about the smart meters too. Their reply, in part was as follows. With regards to the renewable energy claims you highlighted, It may interest you to know that we’ve previously investigated environmental claims made by Smart Energy GB. The full ruling can be found here, however in...

When I build a PC I use pcpartpicker, there is a uk version of the site. It tells you if the component parts are compatible together, such as if they fit and if your psu is enough, and importantly who sells it the cheapest. Built a few high end computers this way now, far cheaper than a premade...

My 6ft garden gate is held together with glue and screws in pocket holes made with a pocket hole drill bit rather than a jig. gets some traffic, bangs shut in the wind etc. Rails rest on or in stiles by cut outs not morticed , I suppose the feather boards nailed on also help keep it together...

Hi I have the opportunity to get my hands on a cmt multico morticer that the current owner knows nothing about, you can guess the sad story. Does anyone know if the machine is supposed to have a working x y bed, and if it is single phase? Any other pearls of wisdom about the machine? Be looking...

That surprises me, if the saw has a cutting capacity of 120mm I would be surprised and let down that it’s struggling on the 45mm mitre through a 30mm thick piece of pine.

Funnily enough according to the manual for your saw there is still a right bevel issue, not as much, but then it’s a 12” blade. I found this in the manual, which didn’t copy paste well, but this is 90d mitre 45d bevel Height x width [mm] 45° 45° (left) 51 x 240 51 x 200 45°...

Hi and thanks again for all your comments. I have gladly been able to contribute a few times since my last thread. I’m looking to replace my cheap single bevel rexel mitre saw for a reasonable upgrade. Uses will be skirting board up to 30mm thick and over 250mm tall, old house, and also to...

I took your advice, got an old startrite on 4 of them, they work a treat, thanks

I used 25mm insulation board in mine, single skin concrete block plasterboard and ply internal wall coverings, but easy to cut to fit in the frame of a wooden shed. Then installed a thermostat to control a few of these tube heaters, very low power consumption compared to a radiator. I keep a...

After that there is a link that tells you to go to the uptodate page, or there was for me, if your using the link from earlier in this chat then yes it is now out of date

Little while since I had my workshop wired. There are comments that a 60amp feed shouldn’t come from a CU, I suspect that is correct. You mention tails. My supply was split after the meter, tails to the existing CU, another to my annex and a further to my worship via two switches at the end of...

I am sorry but that is not good practice or advice. Different email reading programs work slightly differently, I use Microsoft outlook. Seeing/opening a suspicious email in any form does one thing, it fetches the pictures from the scammers server informing them that your email address is valid...