*tries to work out where phil5556 lives* 😂
@nobeerinthefridge - 2 minutes with google maps, want a clue? I must admit it looked familiar and you just confirmed it.
I have numerous bikes in various states of disrepair. Think the BB on the Trailstar is on its way out and 2 old steel frames to correctly ID and restore. Unfortunately I can't move for stuff that has to be sold or given away and I can't even do that!
Squirrelking - don’t put it up here obviously, but if you message me I’ll let you know how close you are.
(And then edit photos a bit 😳)
PM'd
Tidied "that" drawer in the kitchen.
Turned this:
Into this:
Highlight of my day yesterday was taking the tarnished brass numerals off my front door and polishing them to a shine. Knob and letterbox shroud still to do!
Make sure you add a photo of your polished knob 😆
Johndrummer, all the scales are the same finger positions, you just move them up. G-major is E-minor, move the lot up a fret and you have G#-major and F-minor. I suggest starting with C-major/A-minor (index on fifth fret in first position pentatonic) as it's less of a stretch. Oasis' Don't look back in Anger is in C-major and a delightful solo to play that uses all the penatonic positions with nice sliding links. One you've learned the pattern you just start at the appropriate fret and everything follows automaticaly from there without worrying what key you are in.
When you're learning the pentatonic positions, there's no point learning all the positions in isolation as you'll find you only use parts of each of them and it's far more important to be able to move fluidly between the useful bits of each position using slides or bringing up the index finger.
Don't worry about which fingers you use, it's often easier to use the ring finger than the little finger on the low strings as you can keep your hand wrapped around the neck whereas you have to move your thumb to the back off the neck to use the pinky. Some moves high up the neck it's easier to use the major than the ring finger if the ring finger is busy doing what the pinky normally does.
Edit: if you try to play along with Don't look Back in Anger the original is speeded up so tune the guitar 30 cents high.
I’m going to have to buff it out the front of my house , wasn’t able to tug it off yesterday...
I started with patching a couple of inner tubes which turned into a long overdue service of Mrs BigJohn's pub bike. No pubs but she went to the allotment on it and said it was riding lovely.
Then cleared out the workshop after my last (for a while) wardrobe job, in preparation for finishing a TV/hi-fi unit. Sorted it all into wood, metal, cardboard, batteries, lightbulbs, general ready to put it into the van in the right order for unloading at the tip. Then found the tip is shut for the duration.
Never mind, there's a lane up at Cannock Chase where the more responsible fly tippers segregate the junk into separate piles. I'll take it up there later.
Emptied the shed out then put it all back. Inexplicably found loads more room to put stuff.
Also tidied the loft and emptied half of it into the bus (surrogate shed), sanded some apple boxes to use as planters and identified a good few jobs to get done. I'm actually enjoying this.
refelting the hut roof as it had a leak over the winter
Going to fix the electric window on the Saab today as it doesn't go up and down.
Bled the brakes on both bikes, new pads on the hardtail. Took the full sus to bits and checked and greased bearings. New chain and casette on the wifes bike.
I might even clean my car if this keeps going for another few weeks!
Jetwashed most of Scotland from the feel of my body today.
Putolined my first chain yesterday! Don't have a camping stove, so did it on the barbecue. Also discovered that apparently 105 11-speed chains don't have a quick link...
I also have a sourdough starter on the go, and am considering how to make blackberry jam.
On the other hand, my actual work isn't getting done
Rebuilt and repainted a sticky brake caliper on my car, went all in and cleaned and refurbed everything to the max rather than slamming in new parts and spraying over rust and calling it good. And finally fitted the stainless brake hoses I bought about a year ago.
Well, 2 of the stainless hoses, let's not get too carried away. Guess I'll keep going though. Probably will put new seals in the other rear on general principles, and I've got a set of Lexus monoblocks to go on the front that are just getting tidied up, which are comically massive
Not for the first time, so so glad that my 16 year old car spent 13 of those in Japan- doing this same job on the old mondeo rust monster was a nightmare. But everything's easier when you don't have to have it going again for 8.30 the next day
Yes, I fixed the electric window on the Saab. Well, mostly fixed it. It goes up and down again now, but still moves back/forward slightly. However I can't figure out if there is something else in the mechanism I'm missing. Will need to look at some exploded diagrams.
Tried to fix a beer tap that moves back and forward but no beer comes out. Spent a couple of hours on it - stripped it all down and replaced any damaged gaskets and cleared out a little vent I didn't know about with a oral hygiene brush. Even followed a maintenance video about it, but it still doesn't work. I guess I'll need to de-pressurise my tap system and remove one of the working ones to strip down and compare.
Today I am going to prep the stairwell in my building for painting it. So wash down the walls and sand down some rough plaster/filling a neighbour has done. I wonder if I can find my dustmask for sanding! Could be worth lots of money!
Has anyone been brave enough to tackle sorting out that big tub of nuts& bolts and screws yet?
You know that time when you thought "that'll come in useful..."
Unpacked and setup the compressor I bought in October 2017.
Spent the rest of the afternoon randomly blowing air into things.
Valve core remover tool and replacement cores on order and then I'm going to tackle to poorly tubeless wheels on my Enduro.
I put the curtain pole an curtains up in our bedroom yesterday - we've only been in the house 2.5 years........
Had a couple of days sorting the garage and moving stuff into the loft.
Could do with the tip being open though.
Gaggia classic cleaned and serviced, god it was minging!. Now onto replacing firerope on woodburner door.
How very STW.
Nobeerinthefridge
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Gaggia classic cleaned and serviced, god it was minging!. Now onto replacing firerope on woodburner door.How very STW.
You really are secretly choking for a gravel bike 😆
Lol! Steady on sir!
Tbh, woodburners are seen as the devils work on here now, and the coffee overlords would sneer at my 10 year old machine!.
Finished putting Upvc cladding on the front of the house below the windows. Took all the scaffold down front and back, never been so careful. Definitely didn't want a trip to A&E.
Off to fix puncture I got on the trainer yesterday, baffles me how that happened.
Re-felted the shed before winter sets in, not this coming winter or the one just gone, probably three winter's past.
Bemaker - Wheels refurb crap vidoe as someone asked me to make it after I had refurbed the wheels but describves the step :
Carved a seahorse : https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/are-you-bored-enough-to-watch-me-carve-a-sea-horse-from-a-railway-sleeper/
Built a website to see my car : https://nclarksouthampton.wixsite.com/kleemannslk
Liked the website builder so made an Artr one too : https://nclarksouthampton.wixsite.com/nicksartstuff
Got asked by friends what they could do when bored so built a website : https://nclarksouthampton.wixsite.com/mysite
Which in turn meant I made art stones, made a jewellery / watch stand and watched my wife kniot something and also painted a picture.
Is it nearly over yet?
Went from this:
to this:
Not really sure how to tackle the stairs/floor though. Any ideas?
You've turned a door into stairs? 😊
Skirtings all cleaned, both shower trays resealed, shed to tidy, loving it.
Got the compressor up and running, cured all the connection leaks by using a shipping load of PTFE tape.
Setup the lawnmower.
Going to put the summer wheels back on the car.
And there's a mac mini hiding in a cupboard that I'm going to setup as a garage band machine for the kids - might go all the way and install a SSD and max out the ram.
I'm finishing stripping a door.
I started stripping it 5 years ago when I moved in
We made a list. It’s terrifying. Includes ‘re-oiling all the wooden floors’ and ‘Find garden under head high weeds’. There’s also ‘fill in pond’ and ‘paint outside of house’.
It was all a bit overwhelming to be honest. I’ve started a bit smaller and gone with ‘have a beer and consider priority tasks' The first on the list is ‘Order extra beer’.
Thank heavens I bought a few bags of sharp sand and cement on the off chance a couple of weeks ago. Pointing and re-painting all now done on the outbuilding.
Greenhouses cleared out and prepped (some seeds scooped out of tomatoes and chillies in the fridge and planted so they may pop up). Used spare earth to level garden.
Surly Crosscheck stripped and re-built from flat bar to drop bar with slow but fun Knards.
Couldn't get wood for an outside loo floor I'm re-furbing so dismantled some raised beds and spent an age planing and sanding them back before fitting to floor and Danish oiling (came up OK if I say so myself).
Ground the paint off an old metal hand railing and re-painted before spending the week washing wet paint off the kids' hands.
Started body weight training programme, nicely challenging and progressive ( http://www.startbodyweight.com/).
Away at work now but apparently my 'little old bloke in a 'four candles' DIY supply shop' is open at home so the whole house will probably be getting sealant squashed into every crevice next week (I think my wife lives in terror of a husband without DIY to do).
We had an extension done a couple of years ago, before the builders started I took the old decking up and for some reason stacked it at the bottom of the garden as I knew I'd find a use for it.
Two weeks ago I built a large compost bin after the council stopped the green bin collection. Last weekend I built a fence to stop the dog escaping down the brook. Today I've sorted out the bike bin and put in some shelves. Still have a load left so I'm going to build a toy bin for the kids to put their footballs, skipping ropes etc. I suspect that I'll be putting their toys in it and they'll take them out, but the idea is sound in principal.
The decking has done me proud, I am however running out of screws...
I also built a set of stairs at the bottom of the garden using old paving slabs.
Really glad I hoard junk 🙂
Early start today and got another tick off the lockdown-list by 9am.
Floor in my living room cupboard was collapsing.
Found some old laminate flooring and ply in a shed a while back.
Now the cupboard isn't so dangerous. Probably could have done a more comprehensive/neater job, but that was all the materials I had to hand.
I shaved the side of Mrs Squirrels head last night, wouldn't have got to do that outside of lockdown.
Cleaned and polished (sort of) the engine bay of our 2003 Cooper S.
Probably now guaranteed the engine will self-destruct as first opportunity.
Just need to replace the Bowden cable on the seat tilt mechanism now... A most tricky job by all accounts! I think I'm gonna continue to procrastinate about that one.
Sorting the garage!
Only taken 2.5 years.....
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Got the kids bikes to put on the opposite wall and a garden store to build to out the mower and other gardening stuff in.
Also done a fair bit in the garden (and I don't like gardening...) including jetwashing the patio and paths, edging the lawns and hacking back nextdoors front hedge.
Scarified the lawn, which was mostly moss. Still got to go over it again.
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Another one for sorting and painting the garage. 3 days in the sunshine last week. I’ve since outdone Halfords floor tiles down. Just a few finishing touches left to do and a bit of shelf sorting
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Then I’m going to attempt to ‘tart up’ that old workbench
Another one here that’s tidied a garage (but not an epic one like others attempts). Currently halfway through painting the outside of the house (mock Tudor woodwork + all fascias and guttering). The garden is also taking shape and we have a potting shed full of seedlings on the go. The inside of the house looks like a bomb has hit it though 😹
Ohh, and I have laid some paving down the side of the house using some of those big old 80s stones that must weigh a good 120kg (I had them stored from an old patio that I lifted a couple of years ago).
Britain in Bloom competition this year is gonna be a beezer
Cleaned out the gaggia classic. Holy ****, I have no idea how I'm still alive, drinking out of that!.
Stripped down a log store too, turns out 2 is enough after all. I'll fashion a compost bin from the wood.
I've just painted my calipers. They were originally a reasonably nice bronze, they are now a not so nice gold!
I had to replace the rears a couple of weeks ago and couldn't get any of the matching bronze so they went gold, thought I'd best do the fronts to match.
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