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    Replacing garage door cable

    Don't recognise the door, but it looks like pretty standard Bowden cable from the pics. It's easy to find on sale (eg. Amanoz), and would only require moderate metalworking skills to make terminations on the ends (or you could knot it if you don't mind it looking a bit rustic). If you can...
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    Help! External glazing beads won't come out.

    Thanks for the suggestions all. There's something very fishy about these windows. You'd expect the internal seal to be a wedge gasket, but it was a fir-tree pattern with a "mushroom" on the frame side, suggesting that it's not supposed to be pulled out (see pic). This makes no sense with...
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    Help! External glazing beads won't come out.

    Hi. I'm planning to replace a load of old DG units that have popped. Although made of UPVC some off the units have external glazing beads. I've removed the internal gasket on one of the openers, allowing the glass to move back about 3mm, and tried to remove the beads, but once the gap between...
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