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As of this week? Rice, flour, tinned tomatoes, tinned pulses, dried chickpeas and beans, corned beef, porridge oats and dried milk, cooking oil, camping stove fuel, candles, batteries, loo roll, soap and toothpaste.
Remembered this thread and scanned it after a) having had my rear brake pads pop out after a retaining pin had lost it's retaining clip and then undid itself mid-ride, and then b) on checking the other bikes found that three other calipers had no retaining clip. I must have pinged them off while installing the latest pads and never found them again. So my fault but...
Anyway it seems no one has an excess of Shimano brake retaining pins and clips - or do you? <insert fingers crossed emoji> 😬
It seems you have to pay a crazy amount for replacements considering they are just a very small bolt and metal clip each, let alone the various titanium options that come up on a search.
I've not got a load of those retaining pins or circlips for the same reason as you.
But I do have quite a few split pins which I use for the same function. They're a lot cheaper!
yep, maybe I should just order a load more of those and carry one or two as spares along with the quick links. I did use one just earlier to fix the above problem but assume it'll get metal fatigue after a few brake pad changes.
quick links for sizes of chain that I no longer have on any of my bikes
Anyway it seems no one has an excess of Shimano brake retaining pins and clips - or do you? <insert fingers crossed emoji>
I've got heaps. I get through quite a lot of pads and when I throw them out I keep the springs.
But what i really have too many of it these bastards. 2500 of them... still!
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Did a stock take at the weekend, while tidying up all the bike stuff...
No brake pad sundries, unfortunately.
But I do have enough bottom brackets to last me until well into the 2030's
Oh and probably enough chain-shortening offcuts and used quicklinks to make a new chain.
🥦 🥦 🥦 🥦 🥦 Broccoli. For some reason there are five heads of the stuff in the fridge. 🥦 🥦 🥦 🥦 🥦
🥦 🥦 🥦 🥦 🥦 Broccoli. For some reason there are five heads of the stuff in the fridge. 🥦 🥦 🥦 🥦 🥦
Garth... is that you?
Did a stock take at the weekend, while tidying up all the bike stuff...
No brake pad sundries, unfortunately.
But I do have enough bottom brackets to last me until well into the 2030's
Oh and probably enough chain-shortening offcuts and used quicklinks to make a new chain.
I have a singlespeed running on just such a chain. I think it cost me more in quick links than a new chain.
Running shoes. For every occasion, and a few spares too.
Pairs of scissors. I have:- 5 for my soft furnishing business, 4 in the kitchen, 2 in the garage, 2 for parcel wrapping duties, 1 in the greenhouse, 2 in my wash bag and finally a pair for cutting hair. There are probably a couple of pairs I've missed.
Also as others, over the years having to buy a 'box' of curtain accessories when I only need one item. Boxes of sewing threads, rail accessories, screws, hooks and of course curtain metres of excess fabric (rolls of the stuff under the workroom table).
To expand on my entry regarding duvets a couple of weeks ago, I'll also chuck in...
Coffee/tea cups. A quick stocktake just now returns a count of 39. This is a household of 2 people. One of whom periodically says stuff like "There's not enough room in this house, I wish we lived somewhere bigger"
Copies of the Doobie Brothers Live on vinyl. I think I still have about 3, despite giving a couple away. Last night I glanced over at my record collection and noticed at least three copies of Misplaced Childhood as well. On top of all that I was at an all day live music event / record fair on Saturday and excitedly picked up a limited edition reprint of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Got home and popped it into my collection beside an exact same limited edition copy that I'm now pretty sure I bought from the same stall at the same event last year.
This is all despite the fact that I have my record collection catalogued on my phone. It just doesn't work so well if I don't keep it up to date and keep going into 2nd hand vinyl stores when I've had a couple of pints.
If anyone local to me is looking for a 70s - 80s rock / blues, vinyl record collection primer, I'm yer man because I reckon I've got about 20 or 30 doublers in my collection.
Orks (unpainted): essentially an infinite number
Orks (painted): about 3
Coffee/tea cups. A quick stocktake just now returns a count of 39. This is a household of 2 people. One of whom periodically says stuff like "There's not enough room in this house, I wish we lived somewhere bigger"
Ah yes. Mug entropy.
I have a mug. Ok, I have three, my old mug which I've had for years, a STW mug with my username on it (which is very cool) and one which was an in-joke gift and too cool to part with. Yet the mug cupboard is at capacity and spilling over onto another shelf.
When I lived on my own I inherited a pile of my grandparents mugs. I started hosting Shadowrun and got sick of washing 40 mugs at the end of the session so mandated that everyone supply their own mug and took responsibility for it so there's only half a dozen to clean at the end of the evening, which ultimately added to the count. I had a purge, 90% went to charity, I kept half a dozen because I was never going to have more people than that wanting a brew.
My partner and I moved in together. She had the EU Mug Mountain. We had another purge. And I looked around and saw that it was good. She said "can we buy a set of matching mugs for the new house?" and I said "no, we cannot."
And then. Every Christmas, Easter, another one of the ****ing things appears. Easter egg with a hot chocolate sachet and a mug. "World's best mum!" One that got bought because it was pretty and had a cat on it (to be fair it is a pretty funky design). One that was bought because it's "the perfect mug for hot chocolate." A "Nanasaurus" mug which can never be disposed of because it was a present from her grandson (who would have been aged 1 at the time). One that's my fault, I kept my mum's mug after she died, it sits in a display cabinet. And on and on it goes.
None of this of course includes travel mugs, of which there's probably five between the two of us, camping mugs and probably others.
I've issued an embargo on mugs. It almost certainly won't make the blindest bit of difference.
Regrets
More tanks (model) than Rommel and Montgomery had in 1942..............
Lego.
Last count, after bringing up 3 boys, is we have 6 120L really useful boxes full. Plus a 60L really useful box of instructions.
Of course it all just sits in the garage...boxes.
Anyone need a grub screw?
AAAAGGHHHH
yes I do, I need a 3/16"x3/16", but I ordered ONE yesterday (no idea how many will turn up)
If it turns out I've measured wrong and need a different size, I'll be in touch!
Loads of new Hope stuff. Brakes, hubs, everything they did from yesteryear that fills to very large storage boxes
Ohh, got a spare set of pawls for a Hope XC rear hub? The pawls on Mrs NBT's inbred are slipping. I should probalby strip the hub and completely clean and degrease everything first...
Similarly, I've a wee storage racking system filled with lots of wee bits my grandfather used when he was making stuff. That gene never got passed down and I can bear to throw it all away but it genuinely will never get used again - most of it is imperial-sized and very small!
Find your local "Men In Sheds" group or similar and ask, they'll probablby be delighted to take it off your hands
Biking shoes apparently - 10 pairs. 7 of them do get used though
Oh and 7 bikes - 6 get ridden
13/14? watches - 6 are smart watches
Lost count of the amount of Leatherman stuff I have
Notebooks. I buy them because I like the paper, or the binding or whatever. Then I find I don’t have anything important enough to write in them so I put them on a shelf with all the others.
Coffee/tea cups. A quick stocktake just now returns a count of 39. This is a household of 2 people
Specifically espresso cups. We have 14. For 2 people. At least they’re small.
Irons.
I’ve got four.
100V for Japan
120V for USA
220V for Europe
240V for UK
Could likely drop to two, or just stop ironing my clothes and get rid of all of them.