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    people borrowing my wireless

    Bet that wouldn't work a second time! I can think of easier ways to destroy all the data on a hard drive, Degaussing machine in the door frames :lol: Well I do admire the ingenuity. Would have been easier to just build a NAS with a deniable encryption system I'd have thought but hey, that's...
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    Advice on mobile phone access to internet?

    OK... I don't know for sure if the internet has been supressed somehow, it would be possible to make a phone that way, same way it would be possible to make a phone which sings the national anthem on national holidays, but I've never heard of either of those things happening, I'd lay money...
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    people borrowing my wireless

    You'd think so, except the link I posted above has hundreds of people convicted, in what appears to be wrongly convicted, cause fraudsters stole their credit cards and used it to buy sick porn. Many of them are dead too in what appears to be suicides. We are all just guessing anyway none of...
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    Anyone using a "Virgin" dongle for mobile broadban

    Set up your mail client to login as well it will be called something like "server requires login". Method of plaintext will be fine if it works cause SSL encrypts the connection anyway, any log in method that works will do, because while sending e-mail via virgins server from a cable modem will...
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    Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

    What make is the best one? I only used that stop end cause it was free like all my copper pipe...
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    Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

    I'm not qualified to answer any of your questions but hey, I can only look silly right, and I got a question of my own too! I've cleaned off plenty of bits of tube that had 6 layers of paint on them and made them just as shiny as a new bit of tube... don't see why I couldn't put any connector...
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    Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

    You said they never come off right? Are they really as reliable as making a big ring of metal around it (soldering)? Probably can't afford them anyway, soldering bits of used copper is dirt cheap and I am hard up for the minute... still if they are alright I'll look at them for future
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    Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

    I've got lots of used copper pipe with nothing wrong with it, so I can do this mostly for free with copper or I probably would have used the plastic stuff. If there is push fit copper, never heard of it and don't know why I'd want to, most of my soldering is fine I only ask about the rubbish...
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    Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

    OK, if it makes no sense, here it is a different way: There is a line on the outside of t-piece connectors, it is exactly at the place where if you push a bit of tube into the t-piece it will stop. Do you need to push a piece of tube into the connector this far, or if it's a bit too short can...
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    winter is snuggly

    ... I try to sit down, realise I'm already sitting then wonder why I tried to sit down! Hey don't do that, get a room you two!!! :lol:
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    Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

    This is a good time to examine an assumption though if anyone finds it, when I say it's cut exactly at the place it needs to be, it's because the cut lines up exactly where the farthest point you can push a pipe into a the t-piece (marked on outside of t-piece) will be, when I replace stop end...
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    Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

    The bit where I said I cut it as short as it possibly can be. I can't lose 2 more mm from the end of the pipe because it's cut exactly where it should be, down to less than 1mm and it's not going to be a stop end tomorrow, I just did that so I could switch the water back on. I will cut/drill...
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    winter is snuggly

    [/url] I'm not a dog person and I'd already adopt him. Hope they have a whole department set up to deal with adoption requests :lol:
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    Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

    Just because it is at the end of a very long horizontal run (maybe 10 metres) with lots of turns which is fed from a pipe which rises up directly from the boiler and forks only to go off on another long horizontal run.
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    Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

    So, heres my little story bit. I was soldering on a stop end on a 22mm pipe and forgot to hold it steady with something, so it starts sliding, not having anything to hand to stop it moving I thought I'd finish soldering it and see what happens. It slid very very nearly off the pipe maybe a 1-2mm...
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    Advice on mobile phone access to internet?

    Let us know how it goes, it wouldn't do for you to leave this thread without any internet on your phone :) If you need me to write up a step by step I can do once I know if your on contract or PAYG.
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    Anyone using a "Virgin" dongle for mobile broadban

    Sorry, thought you meant you can do e-mail with Outlook. What can you do e-mail with then, web mail?
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    (Gas Question) Boiler drain valve in stupid place

    I don't have a way to get a pic onto my computer at the moment... There are other drain valves on the floor, it's just the boiler one is conveniently close to a sink (and right at the end of the central heating "loop", the pipe comes back in from above not below). It was just about possible...
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    (Gas Question) Boiler drain valve in stupid place

    Boiler drain valve (I mean central heating drain valve, below combi boiler) is helpfully facing the wall, there is a gas supply pipe 11cm above it. I don't know if I'm allowed to desolder and move the drain valve but I'd guess since it's not a part of the boiler yes? The bigger question is...
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    Can you flush a closed central heating system this way?

    :lol: You do the thinking then, me lift stuff, smash things, sweep up, fetch tool. I'm going to assume that's the case and that the boiler has a non return valve in it but if not should be obvious by lack of black gunk appearing...
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