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Free: Broken Doro 6620 (High Brooms TN4) - Although the phone is broken (water damaged), the back cover, the charging cradle, not the charger, the instructions, and battery (it lasts a day) are all okay. Request: Bicycle Rack to carry my shopping (High Brooms TN4) - A rack at the back would be very handy for my shopping, and perhaps panniers with it. The bike is a 1955 Raleigh.
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Request: Bicycle Rack to carry my shopping. (High Brooms TN4) - A rack at the back would be very handy for my shopping, and perhaps panniers with it. The bike is a 1955 Raleigh.
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Request: Case for a tablet - flat to fit 160 x 260mm (High Brooms TN4) - Case for a Galaxy 10" A7 tablet - flat to fit 160 x 260mm I am using something made of cardboard and Sellotape, and it works very well. When it deteriorates, I could make another, but something else could be better.
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Request: Case for a tablet - flat to fit 160 x 260mm (High Brooms TN4) Expired - Case for a Galaxy 10" A7 tablet - flat to fit 160 x 260mm I am using something made of cardboard and Sellotape and it works very well. When it detriates in the next year I could make another but something else could be better.
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Free: 5 1/4" floppy disks (High Brooms TN4) Expired - Box of Single, double, quad but not high density floppy disks. Free: Shoe polishing items (High Brooms TN4) Gifted - Brushes and tins of polish. Some okay, some hard, but the tin might be unusual, many duplicated, inherited, including one tin of blue polish. Free: Shoe polishing items (High Brooms TN4) Gifted - Brushes and tins of polish. Some okay, some hard, but the tin might be unusual, many duplicated, but many inherited, including one tin of blue polish. Free: Floppy Disk Drives (High Brooms TN4) Expired - Internal 3.5" floppy disk drives. They will need dusting off and have not been used for years. Working or not, condition unknown - I can't test them. Free: Harmsworth enclopedias (High Brooms TN4) Expired - Set of 8 about 1901. Before electronics but long articles on electricity cohere was the most efficient radio detector then. So before diode valves 1904 or semiconductor cats whisker 1906.
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Photo of free Harmsworth enclopedias (High Brooms TN4)
Free: Loft Ladder (High Brooms TN4) Expired - Gravity Randell - Parkway scissor type loft ladder It feels firm, in good order and looks complete. Free: Betamax video tapes (High Brooms TN4) Expired - 4 off recorded with 1980s TV documentaries, mostly anti-war and anti-nuclear. I don't know if they work. Free: Harmsworth Encyclopedias (High Brooms TN4) Expired - Set of 8 There is no publishing date, but 1901 is discussed in some articles. The electromechanical section discusses the cohere as the best device for wireless receiver detector, although that was superseded by the diode cats-whisker after publication in 1906.
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Photo of free Harmsworth Encyclopedias (High Brooms TN4)
Photo of free Harmsworth Encyclopedias (High Brooms TN4)
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Free: Pasting table (High Brooms TN4) Expired - Pasting table - used by Tunbridge Wells CND for a decade or so in the 1980s to display leaflets, posters and discussion. Patched up from time to time, and I expect it will take more patching. Free: Toilet Cistern - less than 2 years old (High Brooms TN4) Gifted - It was fitted last year, but I am now having all the bathroom replaced. White basic type. 170mm between mounting holes or 395mm between alternative mounting holes. Make; McClee
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Free: Toilet Cistern (High Brooms TN4) Expired - It was fitted last year, but I am now having all the bathroom replaced. White basic type. Free: 3.5" HD floppy disks (High Brooms TN4) Expired - 100's of them. Free: Pasting table (High Brooms TN4) Expired - Pasting table - used by Tunbridge Wells CND for a decade or so in the 1980s to display leaflets, posters and discussion. Patched up from time to time, and I expect it will take more patching.
Free: 3.5" Hard disks IDE (High Brooms TN4) Gifted - 1 off 120G 1 off 250G Both old IDE type not SATA interface. Free: Betamax video tapes (High Brooms TN4) Gifted - 4 off recorded with 1980s TV documentaries, mostly war and anti-nuclear. I don't know if they work. Free: Fujitsu server (High Brooms TN4) Expired - TX100 -s1 Legacy boot - bios 64 bit. No sound card. I have been using it as a desktop PC. With two 250G hard disks; Linux Mageia 8 LXDE Linux Lubuntu 18 Windows 7, still getting security updates and will run Firefox for a year. Windows 10 - runs too slowly on this PC. Users are; Owner Password is; password PS2 Keyboard and PS2 Mouse The operating systems are freshly installed and receiving updates. If you do not want all the bits, I can separate them and freegle them separately. Otherwise, Windows 7 is a nice mature operating system receiving security updates only, as are the Linux's. The drives of cause need checking and defragmenting weekly, and SMART reports Okay. Free: Furniture Hinges (High Brooms TN4) Gifted - A bag of furniture hinges
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Free: Wireless World Journal around 1980 (High Brooms TN4) Gifted - Purchased from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s. Articles such as; A Heretics guide to physics (partly the difference due to engineers understanding tolerance and make things and physics that design things precisely), Editorials such as Humanist quoted Microchips and Megadeaths, Various electronics constructional - Feed-Forward Current Dumper, Wiring by touch a blind man describing his electronics hobby, various aerials, Electrostatic headphones, The new MC68000, constructional project. Interesting correspondence, including a letter congratulating WW for its article criticising the military and people choosing to work in it. No military adverts accepted. I could never get rid of these, but I need the space and I recall much of what is in them. Free: Camera Olympus Trip (High Brooms TN4) Gifted - Olympus Trip 35 One of the iconic 35mm film cameras of the 1980s, Solar-powered automatic exposure camera. It appears to be functioning fine. It is not a camera for learning photography with because it does aperture setting automatically, the speed is fixed.
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Free: SATA hard disks 3.5" (High Brooms TN4) Expired - One 120GB, one 160GB Free: Compact tape player (High Brooms TN4) Gifted - Portable waterproof tape player, decades old but never used.
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Photo of free Compact tape player (High Brooms TN4)
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Free: PC DOS 6.3 users guide (High Brooms TN4) Expired - It is obsolete now, but I also have Windows XP and other CDs, you can not authenticate XP for the past two years, so the OS will only run for a month. Free: Pension annuity booklets (High Brooms TN4) Expired - If you have private pension funds when they mature the providers send you booklets on Annuities. I have duplicates of Royal London, Aegon, Aviva and the governments' publication to give away. They all say the same sort of thing, so you won't need them all. Free: Net curtains (High Brooms TN4) Gifted - A small pile of unused (white) and used (brownish) material or curtains. I don't use them and now have not got the hooks fitted for them. Free: Net curtains (High Brooms TN4) Gifted - A small pile of unused and used material or curtains. I don't use them and now have not got the hooks fitted for them. 1.1m x 4.5 m 0.9m x 2.5m 1.25m x 2.4m 1.1m x 3.1m