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    6kw heater

    Your sparky should know. It depends on many things, such as the length of run, where it is running e.g under insulation or clipped to wall etc. these tables give some useful information. for 6KW you are looking at about 26amps (Power = Voltage x Current) . From the table 4mm might be suitable...
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    Bear Grylls

    John Colshaw does a great impression though.
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    just suppose

    Gyroscopes. 3 axis for space flight. This is the very reason in the Film Apollo 13 Tom Hanks is getting concerned about gimble lock which is essentially screwing up the gyroscope and then you don't know what way you're pointing. P.S. There is gravity in space it is what makes planets orbit...
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    getting your customer to sign contracts

    Don't forget, send your Ts & Cs with every communication not just the quote or contract. Legally the last accepted terms and conditions are the ones that they take.
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    Mark-up on gear

    It takes you time and effort to select and order materials and for some of it collection as well. It is only fair to be compensated for this. You can always give the client the option to supply materials, although point out that if they order the wrong stuff it is their problem. I suppose the...
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    Euro Socket on Jet wash

    Cut the plug on and put a UK plug on. Most adaptors are s**te
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    what makes snow white

    Light is an electromagnetic wave in the "Visible" part of the spectrum. Snow looks white because it does not absorb light of any wavelength in the visible spectrum it reflects it all which makes it look white. Black paint is black because it absorbs all light wavelengths in the visible...
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    Whats the best LAGER on the market

    Got it on tap at home. Hot and cold. :D
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    Discovery Channel

    On Mythbusters right now. Will a plane take off on a conveyor belt. The definitive answer?
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    Does anyone....

    Red sheep in the morning - global warming.
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    Electric oven with a plug on, connecting to cooker point

    Check the rating of the fuse/MCB for the cooker circuit. It is quite common for single ovens to only require a 13amp connection and if you are replacing like for like the overcurrent protection may already have been downrated. (They are normally 32amps for a cooker connection) Assuming it...
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    bmp to pdf.

    I use PDFCreator it installs as a printer and you just print to it and it creates a PDF. Simples
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    Can you beat the system on health care

    Get down the CAB. My Mum's in a nursing home, and the proceeds from the sale of the house do indeed have to pay for her care. However there is a Deferred Payments scheme by where Social Services register an interest in your property and then pay the nursing home until you have sold the...
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    Anyone know about NI contributions

    If her total earnings with be under £5075 for the tax year then she would be able to claim the small earnings execption if above these, then class 2 contributions will be required @ £2.40 per week. Useful info in this pdf file
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    Pub quiz team name

    Or Jeff T Huggs
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    scams

    Say they send this email to 10,000,000 (Ten Million) email accounts. If they get a success rate of just 0.01% that's 1000 people. If they stung them for £250 on average each, then that is £250,000. A report in 2007 suggested a success rate of 3% for phishing scams, so lets do the maths again...
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    Windows wont detect any usb devices

    There is obviously some kind of corruption within the USB drivers in Windows, however because you can't interact with windows you can't remove them for it to re-detect them. I see 2 options. Get hold of a PCI usb card. Windows should detect the new card and hopefully install the ports...
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    Password and Username problem (OE)

    My vote would be to download the windows live mail application. This replaced OE in Vista. If you must use OE then set it up as a POP3 connection. MS made some recent changes that mean accessing it by http doesn't work properly any more and the utility they produced to enable it in Outlook is...
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