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Wear and Tear Calculator
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WEAR AND TEAR CALCULATOR FOR INDIVIDUALS
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Adding machines
Air conditioners: Window type
Air conditioners: Mobile
Air conditioners: Room unit
Air conditioning assets (excluding pipes, ducting and vents): Air handling units
Air conditioning assets (excluding pipes, ducting and vents): Cooling towers
Air conditioning assets (excluding pipes, ducting and vents): Condensing sets
Chillers: Absorption type
Chillers: Centrifugal
Aircraft: Light passenger or commercial helicopters
Arc welding equipment
Artefacts
Balers
Battery chargers
Bicycles
Boilers
Bulldozers
Bumping flaking
Carports
Cash registers
Cell phone antennae
Cell phone masts
Cellular telephones
Cheque writing machines
Cinema equipment
Cold drink dispensers
Communication systems
Compressors
Computers: Main frame / servers
Computers: Personal
Computer software (main frames): Purchased
Computer software (main frames): Self-developed
Computer software (personal computers)
Concrete mixers (portable)
Concrete transit mixers
Containers (large metal type used for transporting freight)
Crop sprayers
Curtains
Debarking equipment
Delivery vehicles
Demountable partitions
Dental and doctors equipment
Dictaphones
Drilling equipment (water)
Drills
Electric saws
Electrostatic copiers
Engraving equipment
Escalators
Excavators
Fax machines
Fertiliser spreaders
Firearms
Fire extinguishers (loose units)
Fire detection systems
Fishing vessels
Fitted carpets
Food bins
Food-conveying systems
Fork-lift trucks
Front-end loaders
Furniture and fittings
Gantry cranes
Garden irrigation equipment (movable)
Gas cutting equipment
Gas heaters and cookers
Gearboxes
Gear shapers
Generators (portable)
Generators (standby)
Graders
Grinding machines
Guillotines
Gymnasium equipment: Cardiovascular equipment
Gymnasium equipment: Health testing equipment
Gymnasium equipment: Weights and strength equipment
Gymnasium equipment: Spinning equipment
Gymnasium equipment: Other
Hairdressers equipment
Harvesters
Heat dryers
Heating equipment
Hot water systems
Incubators
Ironing and pressing equipment
Kitchen equipment
Knitting machines
Laboratory research equipment
Lathes
Laundromat equipment
Law reports: Sets (Legal practitioners)
Lift installations (goods/passengers)
Medical theatre equipment
Milling machines
Mobile caravans
Mobile cranes
Mobile refrigeration units
Motors
Motorcycles
Motorised chainsaws
Motorised concrete mixers
Motor mowers
Musical instruments
Navigation systems
Neon signs and advertising boards
Office equipment - electronic
Office equipment - mechanical
Oxygen concentrators
Ovens and heating devices
Ovens for heating food
Packaging and related equipment
Paintings (valuable)
Pallets
Passenger cars
Patterns, tooling and dies
Pellet mills
Perforating equipment
Photocopying equipment
Photographic equipment
Planers
Pleasure craft etc.
Ploughs
Portable safes
Power tools (hand-operated)
Power supply
Public address systems
Pumps
Race horses
Radar systems
Radio communication equipment
Refrigerated milk-tankers
Refrigeration equipment
Refrigerators
Runway lights
Sanders
Scales
Security systems (removable)
Seed separators
Sewing machines
Shakers
Shop fittings
Solar energy units
Special patterns and tooling
Spin dryers
Spot welding equipment
Staff training equipment
Surge bins
Surveyors: Instruments
Surveyors: Field equipment
Tape-recorders
Telephone equipment
Television and advertising films
Television sets, video machines and decoders
Textbooks
Tractors
Trailers
Traxcavators
Trolleys
Trucks (heavy duty)
Trucks (other)
Truck-mounted cranes
Typewriters
Vending machines (including video game machines)
Video cassettes
Warehouse racking
Washing machines
Water distillation and purification plant
Water tankers
Water tanks
Weighbridges (movable parts)
Wire line rods
Workshop equipment
X-ray equipment
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