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Hello. I have some flexible hose with an internal diameter of 1” (25mm) and I am hoping to make a garden hosepipe from this. However, I am struggling to find a suitable coupling to connect the pipe to my 1/2" garden tap. And something suitable for providing a spray nozzle at the other end. I...

Thank you for the advice, crazydaze. Most helpful. Does your shop have a web site? When I entered my postcode in the “Where To Buy” section of the ‘Wood’s Good’ web site “No results found” was returned.

I laid some oak, engineered wood flooring. Two types in two areas: 1. Reclaimed, oiled wood finish flooring in one room. 2. Lacquered finish flooring in another room. I never considered what I should do to maintain the appearance of the flooring until now. I just bought a Ewbank EP170 floor...

I have a ’Glow-worm’ 60 FF boiler. Apparently it is the earlier “Honeywell” version (GC No. 41-319-99) rather than the later “Glow-worm” version (GC No. 41-047-56). This despite the legend of “Glow-worm” on the top left of the information label inside the casing.(?) Anyway there is a hole in...

Thank you for those suggestions, misterhelpful and securespark. I have posted a description on both the sites.

My late Mother had a 3’0” by 6’6”, 'Theraposture', “Theramatic” electric bed. One of those with motors to raise and lower the ends and a massage function. Since it cost £1,360, I contacted various, local hospices and charities to see if they would like the bed, including ‘Age UK’ who sell them...

The barrel mechanism in the lock on our back door catches / sticks a little sometimes. I have oiled it but this does not seem to have improved the movement. So I think it is time to replace the lock. I have never done anything to one of these multi point locking mechanisms before. Should it be...

Composite image of the barrel lock mechanism

Door barrel lock mechanism

Occasionally there is a loud, “vibrating noise” in the water pipes here when we turn a cold tap on. Often when this happens the noise can be stopped, by closing the tap some of the way. Sometimes the tap has to be turned off completely. In a couple of instances the only way to subsequently...

I have a Hewlett Packard LaserJet Series II printer. Which I put in a cupboard a decade ago. Together with a spare toner cartridge and a couple of additional font cartridges. The printer was working fine before I stored it. Is anyone likely to want one of these nowadays? Or is there nothing...

Sorry. The device is a NEC SV8100 CHS2U-US PBX

Thank you for all the advice. The manufacturers of the device told me that it is not DHCP compatible. But they also provided me with details of how to change the IP address, default gateway and subnet mask settings. And I was then able to configure these so that the network address of the...

I have tried using Firefox as well as Internet Explorer. On PCs, running Windows XP Pro and Windows 7. It still appears that the browsers cannot resolve the address. I think that the IP address of the device was set manually by the supplier. Running IPCONFIG yielded the following: Ethernet...

Thank you for all the suggestions, which were most helpful. And once I understood that I needed to enter “flat”, “steel” and “bar” as search terms. I found plenty of suitable pieces in listings on ‘e-bay’ for reasonable, all inclusive cost.

Where can I buy a rectangular piece of steel plate from? Preferably galvanised. 1m to 2m long, 30mm to 43mm wide and around 5mm thick. Something that I may stumble across if I keep looking around. But I have no idea where I should go to buy something like this. Either locally or on the web.

I have one of the new style electrical devices, which can be configured through an Ethernet port. The device has an RJ-45 socket for this purpose. And can generate a GUI through a web browser. Apparently it has fixed IP address (192.168.5.11). I would like to access the device using my Sony...

I have a Flymo Vision Compact 380 hover mower. Last time I tried to use it nothing happened when I held the grip of the power switch in place. I have now looked at the state of the mower in a little more detail. When the power switch is operated 240, ac volts are present at the terminals...

> Thank you for the above advice and the speed with which it was posted. I decided to begin with a hammer and a 26mm chisel. And work from there. I lined the chisel up with the flange of the lid of the first document box. Adjacent to the lock. Half a dozen hammer blows later the lid came...

> We have two document boxes and have mislaid the keys to both. And we now wish to get inside them to retrieve their contents. I would be grateful for any suggestions as to how we might best go about this. We are not particularly worried about what happens to the boxes themselves in the...