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    Cracked wall advice sought

    Hi thanks for all your replies. I understand columbage to be the system of wooden framed building with a clay stone in fill similar to cob but with the added reinforcing of the frame. Cob I understand to be rammed earth with a straw reinforcing. I was thinking possibly using stainless steel rod...
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    Cracked wall advice sought

    see this
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    Cracked wall advice sought

    Have a look at the attached image please and give me some thoughts on what you'd do to effect a repair. See the next post for image wouldn't upload first time construction is columbage, norman local method. Basically clay with bits of stone in it. Stone work is granite
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    Powerline adapter to signal booster possible?

    Well o.k thanks for your reply. The nearest neighbours will be 400 meters away. What I need to be able to do is offer potential users of the property roaming wifi, the ipad generation. I have since I posted looked on ebay and saw a pair of devices one which it appears you plug your router into...
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    Powerline adapter to signal booster possible?

    The scenario at present is this two houses in France. Router is in one house and provides wifi in that property. Separate property across 25 meters of courtyard is supplied by plugging router into powerline adapter in property one and utilising electrical connection between properties getting...
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    2007 Ford Transit 6 speed gearbox oil spec

    Can anyone give me the equivalent spec for other oil companies for this oil. Ford want you to use wss m2c200 d2 has this got say a mobile or comma lookalike. I have a pot of comma sx75w-90 gl5 which has been hanging around for sometime so putting it in a box would make better economic sense for...
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    Refitting diesel injector

    Halfway there. With the c1 you have to take all the intake plenum and associated pipery and ducting to get at the injectors so its time consuming. Hoping it was blow back, horrible smell of diesel but no apparent leaks from any of the pipes h.p or l.p and there was carbon on the skirt between...
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    Refitting diesel injector

    Thanks for that Put a bit of rag down the hole and vacuumed out any bits Used to have a liquid when I was in the army for getting carbon off the high energy 'spark' plugs for the gas turbine engines. smelt foul but got the crud off. I did have a bit that I kept for 'research' but that ran out...
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    Refitting diesel injector

    Back to the old citroen c1 problems. Had to pull a diesel injector and have various asks 1 the hole it came out of has a carbon build up in it, anything to get the carbon off, done some scraping but would like a chemical if possible to make it squeaky clean. Looked at domestic oven cleaner but...
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    At last...

    So as you are so pro multiculturalism why haven't you moved to one of the countries that we've had imports from and ask them to change their society to accommodate your beliefs. You could also insist they provide you with free medical care, free education and a social security net for hard...
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    At last...

    Would it be any worse than the mess we have now. Bear in mind that my relatives fought to keep this country from being invaded and now its been given away without the consent of the people. Have a vote see the result what are you and yours frightened of. Or do you subscribe to a p.c dictatorship
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    At last...

    So what about our choice with a referendum, want to address that issue or are you pro multicultural britain
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    At last...

    Didn't the Swiss have a referendum, rather like the one we are being allowed to have on eu membership, on whether they wanted any mosques being built in their country, which they declined to allow, democracy in action, why cant we have a similar vote on various matters of public concern? What...
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    3D printing - Re making one of those awkward to repair plastic bits.

    So do these things just print or do they scan as well because without the info/blueprints to print from then trying to make a spare part out of thin air would be quite time consuming.
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    Council Tax - Get Ready For A Rant

    If you have that in writing from the bank go to court with the idiots ask for compensation for loss of income
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    Citroen 3.0 l relay (jumper) engine no

    Thanks for the replies gents its not on the front of the block i'll check with the other site
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    ROAD TAX.

    How long have you had vehicle, tried to tax then sorn a new acquisition only to be told that previous keeper hadn't notified yet and that I could wait until that information was available on line, me thinks that could be quick way to a sneaky fine. If you have the green bit you can download a...
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    Wet, Yellow, Smelly

    Kim Jong-un
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    is there a way to tell if new wheel bearings have been fitted???

    As an aside what are opinions on the stretch cv boots the ones that go over the cv joint without having to take the joint off the shaft, I've never had a problem with inner ones its always the outers which have a bigger arc to flex around
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    Citroen 3.0 l relay (jumper) engine no

    Does anyone know where this located. I've searched the web but cant get a straight answer. I've grovelled around underneath, the block appears to be a lump of rust and I'm not sure it has not peeled off
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