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Our local supermarket here in France stocks a range of chemicals in the 'household' section. Ethanol, isopropyl-alcohol, acetone, hydrochloric and sulphuric acid to name a few. All in 1L bottles. I think this is pretty common here.

I've got my fingers crossed that the LED ones are better than they were a couple of years ago when I replaced most of our G9 bulbs with LED ones. Two problems with them. 1) they had the spade connectors, not the loops, and tended to fall out of the fittings, 2) none of them lasted more than 6...

The first computers I worked on occupied a large room and we had punch cards to input programs and data. Then we had magnetic tape..... whoopy! It was several years before terminals and keyboards appeared, let alone laptops. Now I am feeling old.......

who keeps receipts fron 40 years ago? i wish i had. with brexit i now have to provide documenrs showing vat was paid on my musical instruments when i want to bring them back to france from the uk. without the paperwork i may have to pay vat on what customs determine is the current market value...

Not a great example to quote. Monet is credited with ideas bringing the European nations together post war and was a strong link between Europe and the United States at that time. But the Schuman plan based on Monet's ideas and the ECSC model were both rejected by the statesmen who organised...

That's only true if you believe that 'ever closer union' will occur. It's a principle that's expounded by a few politicians in the EU and the right wing EU bashing UK press, but it's not the majority view in Europe. The cultural and political differences within the 27 make it difficult so see...

Regarding the 'tampon tax'. EU countries have historically not been allowed to create zero rated items but there has been a minimum rate of 5% which any country could have applied to sanitary products if it so wished. The UK didn't do this when it was able to and waited until it became...

Not true. the rules are not set by the EU - they are set by each country independently. For example, VAT is not the same across the EU. and import taxes and tarifs are defined by each country.

There are CN22 forms and other CN22 forms..... We were sending a present to our grandchildren from France to the UK. Found 2 versions of CN22 online - one on the gouv.fr web site, the other on la poste. Basically the same though. Filled one in and stuck it to the parcel and off to the post...

can you run the laptop hardware diagnostics ? You may have a hardware problem developing. You'll need to look up the details on how to do this for your machine, but typically it involves pressing one of the PF keys during the initial boot and then following the onscreen options.

and remember that egg shells are porous and whatever they were washed in would have seeped inside.

I made a soap dish from acacia last year and tried several finishes (bare, oiled and enamel paint) in turn stripping back between each, but none worked (the paint lasted the longest at 1 week) - the soap always ended up brown!

Can you gently scratch out a little of the glue with something sharp and then use some coloured wood filler rubbed into the scratches?

I've cut these using a carcase saw - really just a large tenon saw - with a block of wood cut at the correct angle as a guide, and then cleaning out the groove with a router plane and chisel. The dovetails were cut using the same saw.

been using a HP deskjet 930 for about 20 years and it's still printing well. I used to buy commercially available refilled cartridges to keep costs down as HP original ones cost an arm and a leg, but then I found out how to do it myself. I refill the ink cartridges with a cheapo device that...

Not a problem but needs care. I've cut mouldings on end grain for furniture panels and suchlike. If you are putting a moulding on all 4 sides of the sign, then do the end grain sides first with a sacrificial block to avoid tear-out. Sharp blades and not too deep a cut help.

I still do some turning along with the other woodworking.

I could make you some if you let me know the inside diameter and the compressed and uncompressed lengths you expect. I'm in France though and the post is taking up to 2 weeks to the UK at the moment.

Can you get hold of some piano wire/spring steel wire around 2mm diameter? You could wind your own springs from this.