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    Inefficient appliance repair.

    Cold fill - especially as washing machines use less & less water, they make sense unless the WM is v close (in pipe length) terms to the HW tank / combi. Otherwise a lot of what's done is draw in cooled down water from the pipework & have to reheat it. Meanwhile, the pipework is refilled with...
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    Bringing goods from the EU

    I've read the contract - and, from a previous life, am used to reading such things........ It looks to me that the EU are pointing at Clause 5.4, where the UK factories are mentioned. There's room for some ambiguity, but my reading of 5.4 is that it's a clause put in by the EU seeking AZ's...
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    Mitre/chop-saw recommendations, under £200

    A couple of suggestions: - as mentioned above, 110V tools are cheap secondhand. So investing in a transformer will open up a wide range of secondhand mitre saws - and other tools at a later date. - if you're uncomfortable about buying secondhand, why not take a mid way? Look for returns /...
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    Parkinson Woodwork Vice???

    Parkinson always called them Vises - I saw a comment that Vice would have offended Victorian sensibilities; I've no idea if this is correct! Parkinson certainly survived longer than the 1930's - their vices are featured in my 1964 Buck & Hickman catalogue, but not the 1971 version. Whether...
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