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  1. portyforty

    Gas diffusion - a question or two

    This forum may not be the place to ask this question, but there are some extremely knowledgeable folks here, so here goes: I'm planning a little DIY double-glazing project. This will involve several opening windows (we call them 'sashes' in NZ) which currently have a single layer of 4mm...
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    I want to modify my car radio

    My hearing isn't the greatest and I'm not hearing my car radio\disc player properly. What I'd like to do is add a headphone socket to the radio unit so that I can choose to listen to the speakers normally, or through headphones. I've been told I'd have to modify the radio to do this. I'm no...
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    Loud music from over-the-fence is causing offence...

    After recently becoming somewhat broke, my wife and I were forced to settle in a small town in a very Wild-Westy part of New Zealand: Deepest darkest Southland. Like many of the inhabitants of this hillbilliyish community, our hard-smoking, hard-drinking, benefit-frauding 'neighbours' on the...
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    Car battery jumpstart gadgets

    All the jumpstart gizmos seem unnecessarily complicated. I would have thought that a gadget could be built that somehow connects the car battery to the house mains temporarily. I've never seen such a thing so I guess it's not possible. Can someone please explain why this is?
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