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Van's making good progress now

Does Jenny know? Did she partake in this?

Congratulations, didn't know you had it in you!

Danny hasn't been on mondraker for three years or so hasn't he?

The illicit DCM dealer of TF supplied me the goop to strip the old powdercoat off my intense frame as well, cant recall what it was though

Pfft, just blink a few times, it soon stops burning I stripped an old bmx frame when I was a teenager, had been painted at least 34 times and I spent hours at it with DCM nitromors and a wire brush in a drill, took ages to clean all the ejected bits of stringy, soggy, molten plastic off everything in the workshop

Don't be rediculous! To be fair, it's pretty nasty stuff, stings when you get it in your eyes Perhaps Dave can set up his own stripping business that incorporates some form of calisthenics in order to be able to legally buy the stuff?

Powdercoat will need dichloromethane based which is illegal to use unless you're certified etc etc. DCM was the active ingredient in old nitromores and was banned for domestic use by the EU. Minimum of gloves, goggles unless you like chemical burns Anodising should come off with a caustic solution.

Well it's a good job I bought another one as well The jackson is big (2.6m), I'm the lighter end of the weight range for it but it was cheap and by all accounts handles really well for a big boat, I'll be using it initially but when Reuben (the stepson) gets bigger (he's 11 and I expect him to do this in the next 2 years) he will be able to use it a bit easier. As a smaller option I picked up a dragorossi stinger for not a lot of cash, currently at the father in laws as it was local to him near Hereford and he went to collect it; it's a 1.9m long river running playboat so hopefully a little easier for the smaller kids to throw around. Paid 300 for the jackson with airbags, wetsuit, splashcag, PFD and a werner carbon/glass sherpa paddle and 123 for the dragorossi with a spraydeck

42 today and I accidentally a whole kayak Persephone says she's definitely big enough to paddle it, I'm not so sure.

Sort of along the same lines of getting old (42 on friday) and keeping mobility with stretches and the like, for the last couple of decades I've really struggled to touch my toes and always put it down to tight hamstrings or calves... As a result 20 years of sitting at work (causing short hip flexors, anterior tipped pelvis and dippy lower spine) resulting in a repeated lower back sprain I went to a chiro to see what they recommend, about half way through treatment now and it's all infinitely looser and no pain but I've been making a conscious effort to keep stretching the hips, strengening the glutes and keep it all aligned. Tweaked one of my hamstrings coaching u6s rugby on sunday so looked to get some decent stretches on them, cue lots of pain in the back of the knees and nothing in the actual muscle. 5 minutes of googling later and I realise that I've spent the last half of my life trying to stretch my sciatic nerve instead of the hamstring Found some different stretches that isolated the muscles, got a stretch on them, flossed the nerves a few times and I can now get fingers to the floor with straight legs, I don't recall when I could last do that. Hopefully it will help sort out the ankle impingement I've had for the last 5 years as well

100% affection, all the time (on their time) especially if you're the one that regularly feeds them Taj would always curl up on my lap, as soon as I would get into bed he would then curl up on my pillow and snuggle my head, since he pegged it over the rainbow bridge a couple of years back, marmalade has now taken on the mantle because she's the only cat now and will reliably come and lie down purring on my chest as soon as I get into bed. We don't get a huge volume of livestock* anymore, typically a mouse a month if it's the season and she can be bothered to hunt (12 years old now), taj in his heyday would regularly bring a baby rabbit in a night and eat it all barring the back legs and tail. Rarely did he let it go alive in the house, apart from the time it was a full grown adult rat, had to be 14" long and dumped it under the bed (typically crammed with boxes of stuff) at 3am *shrews/mice/frogs/rats/rabbits/blackbirds/starlings/pigeons and an attempt at a crow! edit: oh and mans best friend, the doting loyal labrador is just a f**king doofus nutcase whose sense of affection is charginfg 38kg of flesh into the front of your knees at high velocity

Glad I quoted you Or should I just delete my post as well?

Mike, did you really need to bump this one?

I would make a jig with a sliding blade made from 4-5mm thick stainless that you can grind to a decent edge. Absolutely no idea if it would work but worth a try? We're looking to possibly relay our parquet into the hallway (if levels allow) and that would be my first attempt

I'm two weeks into being fleeced at all oppurtunities by the chiropractor for pulling my back a couple of weekends ago. I'm older than most on here and this was the third instance of the same injury in the last 5 years or so and I figured that I ought to get it looked at properly before it starts degenerating. I had sprained my sacral facet joints and got a significant amount of anterior pelvic tilt/dippy spine going on (from being sat in the office for the last 20 years and not stretching my hips out at all). Yes it's going to cost a few hundred quid but I'd rather get it ironed out now whilst I still have the chance to make a better recovery. The crippling shooting pains have all gone now and hip movement is about 80%, still can't bend my spine forwards to any great degree yet but she reckons on another 4 weeks of treatment so a while to go.

Stiffen up and you dead sailor, that's how I ended up with 3" of bmx handlebars punched through the top of my right thigh and into my groin Relax the back and shoulders, let it all flow and you're much more likely to be able to throw the bike away and bail if need be.

In my experience, jumping is about relaxing on the bike, trials is all about tension and forcing the bike to move rather than letting it fly it's own path. I dunno about trials stopping you from removing like from the bike, I think my own innate natural fear did that for me

TF tapemeasure™

I had the astrazeneca last week, felt a bit grotty and achey the next day but nothing significant so far* I'm fairly ambivalent about the vaccines, on one hand I'm a little wary about there being no long term testing like other more established vaccines, however historically I've had no significant side affects to any vaccine before and I'm not affected by any of the known issues that would prevent you having this particular jab (autoimmune respone, blood clotting disorder etc.). The wife on the other hand does have a history of auto immune and clotting disorder so I suspect that she probably won't have it. Same situation as Dave, I'm old, got kids already yadda yadda yadda. *I did sprain my sacral facet joints on saturday and there's this buzzing in my head from the microchips and 5g but other than that....

Yeah, I did have reservations about suggesting silver solder, it was more because it would flow in and fill the joint if you can get it clean enough. I think Adams suggestion to dress it back and weld up the crack would be far better, I would find a local cast iron welder and see what they recommend. It might be that you grind back with a die grinder and tungsten burr to give a weld prep and build it back up to surface with filler and linish flat; I think it should be possible to weld the end out of the crack as long as the weld pool is pulled past it and there is enough penetration going on.

Could the crack be repaired with silver solder? Not sure if it would give a robust enough repair or even if you could get it clean enough to do so. Perhaps dip the dropouts in phosphoric acid to clean it up?

Scam money refunded so will be on the hunt for another GPU. As an interim measure I grabbed one of the spare quadro2000 cad workstation cards from work, we don't use them anymore as they're too slow for the larger assemblies in solidworks. They only cost 40 quid a pop on eBay a few years ago and have been sat in a drawer for emergency. Figured that gaming performance would be crappy but at least he can use the machine for other stuff. Turns out they play team fortress 2 maxed out @1080p with 50-120fps so it covers all of his requirements I think I'll grab a 970 for him if prices stabilise a little.

Good price because it was a hacked account and scam I think. eBay pulled the listing but won't let me request a refund for another couple of days... Apparently although they've pulled the listing they've not cancelled the transaction so it's a possibility that it's legit and a card does get shipped out but I'm not going to hold my breath

The lads gtx780 has gone up the swanny, anyone got an old GPU laying about in a cupboard? Gtx 660ish or an AMD equivalent and upwards considered Edit: found someone selling 6gb gtx1060s for 135 quid a pop which is about half the current going rate! Reckon is a decommissioning mining rig but a gpu is a gpu!