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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

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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!

Plastic bearings allow for lower body height and will take more load than an equivalent thickness needle bearing; I would guess the igus bearings are lighter and better physical packaging for a pedal than an equivalent oilite bush. Personally I would rather have slightly higher pedals and proper ball races,my easton flatboys on the intense are still going strong, 17 years old and zero maintenance

The problem with plastic bearings is that they fail very quickly if any abrasive gets in there, the grease will also act as a flush to drag out any contaminants that might have gotten in there. We use uhmwpe (ultra high molecular weight polyethelene) bearings at work in a grit laden sewage slurry environment, they have a constant grease feed which is purely to force any grit out of the seal on the bearing; with the correct maintenance regime they will last for 15-20 years, without then you're lucky to get 3 months before the bearing has destroyed itself and taken the journal shaft with it. Perhaps make it a monthly thing to squelch a load of grease till you get a purge of clean lubricant come out of inboard bearing?

Would expect so, have you been keeping up with the right lubrication regime?

I did, had the mortgage in principle, made the offer and was in within a couple of months. No pushy estate agent, my solicitor sorted everything out and I had no hassle at all, it was almost twenty years ago though. No chain though as the owners had already bought another house and moved out of the property.

I was in the same boat with my intense, ended up with some xfusion vengeance coil and they're absolute monsters. 1 1/8 straight steerer, 150-170 travel, 36mm stantions, high and low compression and rebound. They are astonishingly plush and the damping is excellent. Look into the reviews for them, a very good alternative to fox 36s and massively underrated by most accounts. I lucked on them for 180 quid and couldn't be happier edit: ideally you want the hlr version, there was an OEM version that specialized used that didn't have all the compression damping adjustments. Mine are 2011 models but I think that was towards the last year's that straight steerers were available. Also look at marzocchi 44 or 55 as another option.

Only if you wear the shorts with the thighs

Yeah, I discovered this when I had my supermoto engine cases stove enamalled, every single M6 threaded hole full of grit. In magnesium. f**k me I swore a lot and got very intemate with helicoils. If their blasted before coating then it's worthless trying to chemically strip to try to save the aesthetics like I did as it will be a uniform finish below the powder so you might as just get it reblasted again

If you're planning onrecoating then yes, blasting is better (as long as the blaster doesn't get happy filling the threads with grit!) as it will key the surface better. I specifically wanted the raw factory aesthetic so went for dichloromethane.

If you want it true raw aluminium as in with weld discolouration visible and natural finish on the tubes then it's chemical stripping with dichloromethane (the active ingredient in old formulation nitromors) which is not legal to buy for personal use and is particularly nasty stuff. Blasting it will give a uniform look to the material, losing the original finish on the tubes. I stripped the old powdercoat from my intense 5.5 using dichloromethane and it took days and days of apply, wait, scrape, apply, wait, scrape; many chemical burns were endured and the boilersuit I wore still has bits of red melted powdercoating embedded in it Bear in mind that was 7-8 year powdercoat and it was really hard work, frame came up lovely though

Welcome to wave 3 Meanwhile, our eldest (15) is back in school and the other three are homeschooling full time.

Considered a diesel heater? Might work out cheaper than electric, the Chinese clones are dirt cheap now. Says me who refused to buy a Chinese heater with chinglish instructions for the van and paid four* times the price for a webasto *and that was still a third of the RRP for the webasto heater

Some of us talk funny round here

Murder them quietly?

Fingers crossed, I think in this day and age the possibility for the sellers of completing chain free and quickly can have a massive impact on things. Hopefully it's enough of an incentive