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I've got an old Smiths 60-minute timer that seems like it should be possible to fix but I've no idea where to start - there must be a community or helpful site out there but looking for anything with "old timer" in it is pretty much not helpful. So if anyone happens to know of anything that might be helpful, I'd appreciate it. (Already found a site or two with a bunch of historical information on the manufacturer but zero technical stuff.) (Not my picture but it's the same model.)
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Jun 19, 2018 18:11
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PremiumSupport posted:Do you have a model number? Nope. No patent number or date, either. All I know it's a "Smiths timer" manufactured in Great Britain by "English Clock Systems" and imported into Finland by Instrumentarium (it has a sticker on top).
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Jun 19, 2018 21:23
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If you're building a retaining wall out of cinderblocks will it really matter because in five years it'll start toppling anyway?
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Jun 27, 2018 05:52
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BonoMan posted:it was actually an outdoor space covered over and converted to an interior room Like, dude, all rooms are that. 
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Jul 19, 2018 12:35
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Not really a DIY question since I don't do it myself but I've been watching a lot of youtubes where people do do it themselves and - excuse me if this is a drat fool question but - why do many of them always first use rust remover, then file and sand, and then sand-blast? Seems to me they could just skip to sand-blasting, especially since every now and then there's a "there was still some rust visible after blasting so I did it again" situation.
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Feb 21, 2019 20:51
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If you want a sheet of thin plastic, just go to a plastic store and ask for a sheet of thin plastic. Just make sure to get one with protective film on both sides if you don't want it to come pre-scratched.
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Apr 8, 2019 15:41
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I don't think I've ever seen a "plastic store". Is there some other term I can search by? I mean, Home Depot has a few plexiglass sheets, but their prices are absurd and they also stop at 1/8" thick. I'm sorry I can't help you there but if this city has one I'm sure there's one near you. (On the off-chance that you're in Finland, go to Etra/Etola.)
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Apr 8, 2019 22:02
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I want to say thanks to the goon that recommended I seek out a local plastics store for materials to protect my "gaming table" TV. It cost me most of an hour's worth of driving round-trip, but they had 1/32" polycarbonate that they could cut to order; the best online shopping could get for me was 1/16", for more money and the risk that the sheet would break in transit. It's so easy to forget that on-line shopping is actually bad and not good, nowadays. I tried to find a particular bakelite pencil sharpener* for a reasonable price on-line for ages. Then I popped into the stationery department of a local book store for the first time since maybe 2005 and they had it for a few euros (and obviously no shipping costs). *) obviously not a pressing need but still E: the sharpener is made out of bakelite, not the pencils
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Apr 23, 2019 00:32
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Motronic posted:Bakelite/things made out of it are still being produced? Well I said bakelite because a lot of on-line stores are trying to flog it off as "genuine vintage bakelite sharpener from 1930" even though it's still being made. Apparently it's a material they call Duroplast https://www.standardgraph.com/pdf_kataloge/dx_dux_2019.pdf
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Apr 23, 2019 00:52
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Does an ozone-creating-thingamabob damage refrigerator seals? Or, rather, does ozone?
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Jun 7, 2019 22:03
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Motronic posted:a residential ozone generator  yeah nah this is the Real Deal. I don't know if any ozone generators available here are rated for use with people around.But I guess I'll just use it on the shelves and drawers. Need to build some sort of OZONE SARCOPHAGUS to put in the yard I guess.
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Jun 7, 2019 23:03
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Jaded Burnout posted:An O zone, if you will?  (of my O zone)
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Jun 7, 2019 23:36
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Wasabi the J posted:There's no evidence it even does anything to fix smells other than masking them What more do you want?
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Jun 8, 2019 10:20
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If a painter leaves some big sheets of OSB (used to cover the windows when he took the panes away to be painted) in your garage for two years, is it OK to just consider them yours?
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Jun 8, 2019 16:49
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Yossarian-22 posted:I'm at an AirBNB in Berlin and we (s/o and I) got our clothes stuck in a top loading washing machine. It's a Siemans Siwamat 1370 TopSpeed. Whenever we turn it on there are suspicious buzzing noises and the door lock is latched shut whenever we try to open it. Is the tap open? e: Oh didn't read gud.
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Jul 19, 2019 10:35
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melon cat posted:Any suggestions for quickly and cheaply filling in this cracked window? It's more than a crack. Has a good gap between shards. We're getting this window completely replaced but it can't be done until January, and until then it'd be nice for this room not have this room leak out all the heat and turn into an igloo. Tape. Oh someone said tape already. But anyway January is three months away. Tape both sides if you can, obviously. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Oct 3, 2019 |
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Oct 3, 2019 02:23
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PainterofCrap posted:Now would be good, since that is a relativey recent (i.e. sharp edges visible) displaced crack in a foundation wall. Duct tape is flexible though.
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Nov 11, 2019 20:22
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JEEVES420 posted:just don't store them in your kitchen, years of thorough reading of those little packets have led me to believe they are not good if you eat them. He's not going to store the dangerous packets, just the delicious silica.
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Nov 14, 2019 01:33
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Pollyanna posted:Is there like, a lever or something you can use for a screwdriver then? Cause those are pretty loving stuck on there. Grab the shaft with pliers? Or if it has a nut on the end, use that.
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Dec 7, 2019 22:04
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DrBouvenstein posted:I'm also miffed that insolated ducts are only in 25' sections...I only need like 10 to 15. That's weird. 3 metres is the standard here. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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Dec 15, 2019 06:35
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PainterofCrap posted:Any chance that you can pick up another lock and use the cylinder with your existing hardware? Well unless it's all artisanal and custom-made (or obsolete), the lock shouldn't know one cylinder from another.
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Feb 28, 2020 16:13
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Post a drat pic.
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Feb 28, 2020 16:58
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Is there any meaningful downside to cleaning stuff with vodka instead of isopropanol? Because I need to clean stuff and I have vodka but I sure as heck don't have any isopropyl alcohol lying about.
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Jun 10, 2020 13:33
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I've never used an induction stovetop, but apparently it fixes that problem with electric ranges. On the flipside, you need compatible cookware. I'm not American so I've never seen a gas stove anyway, but I don't think I've seen any consumer-priced cookware that wasn't compatible with induction stoves in shops in the past 10-15 years 
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Oct 12, 2020 00:27
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Slugworth posted:Just recently moved to a house with an electric stove for the first time in my life. It's a bit slower to heat up, but otherwise seems fine? Also seems to heat larger pans a little more evenly, but that might be in my head. Don't worry about it, gas stoves are the fedora of the kitchen.
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Oct 12, 2020 00:36
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If you want to heat up something metal without burning adjacent material, couldn't you use a soldering iron instead of a blowtorch? (I have no idea, hence the question mark.)
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Oct 16, 2020 02:11
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OK this might be a drat fool question and possibly better answered somewhere else but: can I detach metal dust from a magnet by using a more powerful magnet?
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Oct 17, 2020 07:16
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Slugworth posted:Well how are you gonna get it off the more powerful magnet? By putting a sheet of paper in between, as I should've done originally. e: I found an obvious solution: tape 
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Oct 17, 2020 11:25
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