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Free: Copy of painting of Brymbo steelworks (Blackrod BL6) This is a copy of a painting of the (now closed) Brymbo steelworks in Wales by Jan Boenisch. It's 20" by 16" (51 x 41cm-ish) and unframed. It's not a 'proper' print but, sort of, home made, in that I downloaded an image, blew it up and got it printed like a photo. As a result, it's possibly not as pin-sharp as a 'proper' print might have been, but as the original painting itself isn't hyper-defined, I doubt it makes much difference. At the time it was impossible to get a 'proper' print, so this was the best I could do, but it turned out this wasn't the painting my dad had been waxing lyrical about all along, so it's been rolled up in a drawer for years. If anyone can put it to good use you're more than welcome to it.

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Free: Half a dozen old glasses cases (Blackrod BL6) Half a dozen old glasses/spectacles cases, in various conditions. Some are as-new inside and out, some are less pristine. If anyone can do something constructive with any/all of them you're welcome to them. Failing that, could anyone suggest, please, anywhere we could take them to be recycled? We know of places that accept glasses for repair/recycling/repurposing, but not the cases the glasses came in!

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Request: Power cable/transformery thing (Blackrod BL6) Expired Does anyone have a power cable like the one pictured looking for a new home, please? The one pictured is for a very small dehumidifier, the sort that fits in a cupboard or wardrobe. I thought it was the dehumidifier that was broken, but it turns out the fault lies somewhere inside the power cable/transformer thing. (We bought a new dehumidifier and realised the power cable looked exactly the same as the one on the 'broken' dehumidifier, so we tried it in the 'broken' dehumidifier and it started working perfectly.) Thanks for reading, Alison

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Request: Topsoil BL6 (Blackrod BL6) Received Hello, If anyone is planning on getting rid of some topsoil in or around the BL6 area could I put in a 'bid' for some, please? I'm turning an old bath into a planter, but boy will it take a lot of filling. Thanks, Alison

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Request: Wheels or trashed wheelie bin (Blackrod BL6) Received Does anyone have, please, two wheels maybe around the same size as you get on a wheelie bin? I'm looking to make a garden trolley from stuff that would otherwise be binned but I'm struggling to get some wheels big (and strong) enough. I thought I'd found some on an adult-sized scooter that looked like it had been put out for scrap, but by the time I went back to check with the householder it had gone. Then I spotted a wheelie bin in a skip, but the axle and one wheel had been completely trashed (the householder told me a car had come off the road and taken out his mate's garden wall and his wheelie bin - and the council was making his mate pay for a replacement bin!). So that's the size and sort(ish) of wheel/s I'm looking for - and two of them, or even one decent wheel and an axle from a wheelie bin, to match the one I already have. Bit of a weird ask, I know, but this is Freegle, so anything's possible! Thanks for reading, Alison.

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Free: DVD player, working but only just (Blackrod BL6) Expired Hello, Can anyone make use of a Pacific brand DVD player? It plays DVDs but we don't have the remote control and the door thing that slides out so you can put the disc in sticks more often than it doesn't, so it's a bit of a stretch to describe it as "working". However, Freeglers are a resourceful bunch so maybe someone on here can do something with it (or take it apart and do something with bits of it) before I take it to the tip. Thanks for reading!

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Free: Glasses/spectacles cases (Blackrod BL6) Expired Can anyone make use of several empty, old glasses/spectacles cases? The glasses themselves have gone to be recycled (via a collection bin in the opticians at Asda, Middlebrook) but they don't accept the cases, so as a result we have maybe between a half-a-dozen to a dozen looking for new homes. They're of all different sorts, plastic, metal, and different ages, and some are in better condition than others. They're weird things to re-use (although someone on that TV programme 'Money for Nothing' turned some into mini travel cases for jewellery and other bits), but if anyone can come up with a use for some/all of them, just give us a shout, please. (I'm too lazy/disorganised to include pics here, but if anyone is interested, I'll be happy to send pics to them to help them make up their minds.)

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