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    How long must you leave plaster to dry before making dust

    Thank you :D The comb chisel (with a club or baby sledge hammer) seems to work for me better than a bolster. Problem with this wall is the mortar is fragile...
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    Compression Fittings, "The Knack"

    Ah, well I'm trying to explain "the knack" because, well the olives are all much of a much, pipes are of the same thickness, it should be a science not an art. I'm sure you're right you need to do it to know how to do it, but this is the series of instructions I follow for myself and it seems to...
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    Compression Fittings, "The Knack"

    OK, I am still a newbie Plumber. But I have put together about 20 of these sort of joins now on radiators, isolation valves and other things, I do not use PTFE tape or jointing compound and not a single one of my compression joins has leaked, bar the second, which only leaked because I did it up...
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    How long must you leave plaster to dry before making dust

    In the blue corner we have, Mr Plaster. He looks a bit wet but is solidly constructed and we've no doubt at all once all is said and done he will be a hard customer. In the red corner we have, Mr Dust! He looks light and flimsy but he is all over the place, even where you didn't expect him...
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    Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

    It depends what you need it to do. I've built many servers that never have reliability issues themselves, some of them running years after I left the company exactly how I left them... it's more about being careful what you put on it! But then again, I walk around all day long marveling at...
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    Rawl Plugs in Masonry

    Because the screw wasn't flush with what it was holding, so it needed tightening more. To the others, I did drill the correct diameter hole with the drill bit size from rawls catalog, the mistake I made was: I treated the rawl plug like a magic black box you should put into wall holes...
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    Cheap, temporary insulation?

    I did the polystyrene at first and replaced it with the fibreglass lung slayer, I mean, err insulation from B & Q :)
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    people borrowing my wireless

    It's normally done with partitions not files, you'd put say 4GB of garbage on there it's reasonable you'd encrypt (embarrassing, financial, whatever), make the partition say 200 GB and have your hidden data of which there is say 100 GB in the rest of it. So long as you update the 4GB "red...
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    Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

    [/url] LOL. Hey, they are going about it all wrong though you should choose a job because it's interesting not because of the money. The kick I've been getting out of completed plumbing works when I turn it all on, nothing leaks... well it's a lot like the kick I get from a completed IT...
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    Advice on mobile phone access to internet?

    Try phoning sony erricson technical support, without looking at the phone, if it's not behaving like other models I'm not sure what to suggest. Update: A lot of phone makers have contracts with networks which forbid helping with unlocking, so don't tell them your phone is unlocked, tell them...
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    Push Fit Plastic to Copper Pipe.

    Someone will give you a better answer but I've read other articles about people extending copper with push fit plastic. If it's just a small run, I'm not really sure why people do it, solder rings are very easy to use but it can be done. I also don't know about your pressure washer, but...
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    Blocking Facebook?

    No, but you have to know to look. Given most outsiders understanding of IT is either "genius"/"geek" or "normal", I'm very confident in saying if they knew how to do this, she would know.
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    Rawl Plugs in Masonry

    OK this is shockingly basic to most of you I'd think, but it really ran rings around me, not having any way of knowing this stuff. Every guide I've seen says to drill the hole the size of the rawl plug, which I obediently did. So then I put my screws in, my cordless driver jams so I flex the...
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    people borrowing my wireless

    Deniable encryption is encryption you can't prove exists, the normal way of doing this is using a crypto program that creates one set of data that can be decrypted with multiple keys to reveal different data sets, it's impossible to tell how many keys there are therefore the criminal can give...
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    Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

    There is no problem, I'm not still stuck there scratching my head about it :lol: I drilled the hole yesterday took it off and replaced it with a t-piece, it was only there for one day so I could have the water back on overnight, and I decided if it wasn't going anywhere now it would probably...
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    Anyone using a "Virgin" dongle for mobile broadban

    Look at step 8 on here. That's what you need to do, select the "My server requires authentication" box.
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    Advice on mobile phone access to internet?

    I need more information, the settings berry gave you, access point name, etc, where did you put them into the phone, what menus did you go through or have you not put them into the Sony?
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    winter is snuggly

    You know, when it comes up randomly and I've nothing better to do... but it's not my thing really, two's company, three's a crowd. :wink:
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    Desolder with water in pipes, can it be done?

    Still worth having though for what the guy says, shoving on live pipes...
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    people borrowing my wireless

    I do recall some sort of BBC documentary about a guy who was definitely innocent convicted on that Ore thing, it was when I first became interested in it and started using it as a talking point about legal cock-ups, so I don't see how it could be both true, what the documentary said and that...
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