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Eyewinkers
Just taken delivery of a new kitchen tap and the instructions are quite
interesting... 'The clearance in the supply water tube. before installment,must clean the sundries, sand and some other eyewinkers in the tube so as to avoid the plug.' Anyone ever found any eyewinkers in their tubes? -- F |
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On 19 May, 14:01, F news@nowhere wrote:
Just taken delivery of a new kitchen tap and the instructions are quite interesting... 'The clearance in the supply water tube. before installment,must clean the sundries, sand and some other eyewinkers in the tube so as to avoid the plug.' Anyone ever found any eyewinkers in their tubes? No, just some arsebiscuits in a truncated D-ring. |
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"F" news@nowhere wrote in message o.uk... Just taken delivery of a new kitchen tap and the instructions are quite interesting... 'The clearance in the supply water tube. before installment,must clean the sundries, sand and some other eyewinkers in the tube so as to avoid the plug.' Anyone ever found any eyewinkers in their tubes? -- F Eyewinkers are those bits that fly out and get you in the eye when you give something a blow. Baz |
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"Baz" wrote in message
... "F" news@nowhere wrote in message o.uk... Just taken delivery of a new kitchen tap and the instructions are quite interesting... 'The clearance in the supply water tube. before installment,must clean the sundries, sand and some other eyewinkers in the tube so as to avoid the plug.' Anyone ever found any eyewinkers in their tubes? -- F Eyewinkers are those bits that fly out and get you in the eye when you give something a blow. Too much information.... Consenting adults... etc etc -- Bob Mannix (anti-spam is as easy as 1-2-3 - not) |
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Eyewinkers
F wrote:
Just taken delivery of a new kitchen tap and the instructions are quite interesting... 'The clearance in the supply water tube. before installment,must clean the sundries, sand and some other eyewinkers in the tube so as to avoid the plug.' Anyone ever found any eyewinkers in their tubes? Classic Janglish/Chinglish translation. Obviously means grit. Stuff that makes you blink. I remember rug terminals. Rugs being what every Asian has on the floor, like mats. Earth mats. Like what are used to earth radio stations. I got there in the end. Ground or earth terminal. |
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Eyewinkers
On Tue, 19 May 2009 16:47:07 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
had this to say: F wrote: Just taken delivery of a new kitchen tap and the instructions are quite interesting... 'The clearance in the supply water tube. before installment,must clean the sundries, sand and some other eyewinkers in the tube so as to avoid the plug.' Anyone ever found any eyewinkers in their tubes? Classic Janglish/Chinglish translation. Obviously means grit. Stuff that makes you blink. I remember rug terminals. Rugs being what every Asian has on the floor, like mats. Earth mats. Like what are used to earth radio stations. I got there in the end. Ground or earth terminal. Rug lugs, surely? -- Frank Erskine |
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F wrote:
Just taken delivery of a new kitchen tap and the instructions are quite interesting... 'The clearance in the supply water tube. before installment,must clean the sundries, sand and some other eyewinkers in the tube so as to avoid the plug.' Anyone ever found any eyewinkers in their tubes? No, but I had to circumgyrate a spigot into an export hole a while ago. -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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On Tue, 19 May 2009 17:19:17 GMT, The Medway Handyman wrote:
F wrote: Just taken delivery of a new kitchen tap and the instructions are quite interesting... 'The clearance in the supply water tube. before installment,must clean the sundries, sand and some other eyewinkers in the tube so as to avoid the plug.' Anyone ever found any eyewinkers in their tubes? No, but I had to circumgyrate a spigot into an export hole a while ago. Thus supporting human trafficking. -- Peter. You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion? It's not rocket science, you know. |
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Eyewinkers
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Lino expert saying something like: On 19 May, 14:01, F news@nowhere wrote: Just taken delivery of a new kitchen tap and the instructions are quite interesting... 'The clearance in the supply water tube. before installment,must clean the sundries, sand and some other eyewinkers in the tube so as to avoid the plug.' Anyone ever found any eyewinkers in their tubes? No, just some arsebiscuits in a truncated D-ring. Ditto, and some ****nuggets in an incomplete package. |
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