My attention was drawn to the Sharp LC42LD266K 42″ Full HD LED TV by an email from Ebuyer advertising a deal on it. The Ebuyer offer was a time limited deal but the Sharp LC42LD266K is widely available with The Co-operative Electrical offering the next best price I could find as I write this. The Sharp LC42LD266K is fitted with […]
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Technology has moved on at an amazing pace and today tiny integrated circuits are taken for granted but it was not so many years ago that our televisions and wireless sets (radios) contained large glowing thermionic valves, or vacuum tubes as our American cousins called them. Here in Britain Mullard was the best known brand for radio valves. The film below […]
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A washing machine that is noisy during the spin cycle may well be suffering from worn bearings, especially if it is making a loud rumbling sound. Washing machine bearings are replaceable and in the video below the guys at parts supplier Buyspares demonstrate the step by step process for swapping the bearings on a LG washing machine.
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Earlier today I spotted a TV ad for mail order company Very promoting a Black Beko washing machine priced at £239. Looking at the Very web site the machine turned out to be a Beko WMB714422B 7Kg wash load 1400rpm spin speed washing machine. As well as the black model Very are also selling the white WMB714422W and silver WMB714422S […]
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Wandering around a branch of 99p Stores and spotted the pack below among the display of batteries on sale. Five assorted Daewoo specialist alkaline batteries as often used in remote key fobs, etc. I have a doorbell push that uses a E23A battery so getting a spare along with some other batteries for 99p seemed worthwhile. The pack consisted of […]
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£270 for a 40″ full HD LED television seems a pretty good price to me, that that is what ao.com are asking for the Toshiba 40L2433DB as I write this. Unfortunately the Toshiba 40L2433DB does not have a Freeview HD tuner built in so to get the full benefit of the 1920 x 1080 HD screen you will need to […]
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I see that Aldi are advertising that they will be selling a 100 litre Russel Hobbs chest freezer from Sunday 14th September 2014. I had not realised that Russell Hobbs sold chest freezers but an internet search reveals several models with the 100 litre Russell Hobbs RHCF103 chest freezer being the smallest. Other retailers I found offering the RHCF103 freezer […]
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When Australian electronics engineer and video blogger Dave Jones spotted that the box containing a Dyson hand held vacuum cleaner had a statement on it suggesting that as it contained a brushless motor there would “Zero carbon emissions” he saw red. Dave’s answer was to make the three minute video rant below and post it to both his EEV Blog […]
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I cannot really get excited about steam irons but when I saw a TV advert for Morphy Richards Ionic irons stating they had been named a Which? Best Buy I thought I would take a look. The ‘Ionic‘ label refers to an anti-static sole plate. Now how much difference this makes to the ironing experience I do not know, but […]
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I see that Appliances Direct are advertising the Panasonic TX-L42B6B 42″ HD TV for £270.97 as I write this which seems a great price for a 42″ Panasonic TV. Debenhams Plus are selling the Panasonic TX-L42B6B for £294.00. Features of the TX-L42B6B include: Full HD 1080p LED backlight Freeview tuner USB playback
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