I have been there a few times as a backpacker and holiday and taken a 5yr and 2yr old.
If you can make it to the very north end of Cebu there is a tiny traffic free island called Malapascua where my BiL owns Evolution Diving[/url] where you can dive with Thresher sharks.

We found it ok to get around on a shoestring and most people are very honest, even in the back of beyond, you could get on a local bus and if the fare was 13p for the locals that is what you would be charged too. The Ceres Line inter-town busses are a bit scarey to ride on, they just dont slow down for anything. We had an HGV that was trying to race the bus roll-over infront of us on a mountain hairpin.

We did go out for a stag-night in Cebu where i managed to get my credit cards stolen and then returned to me (unused) with an apology.

its a fun country but the local food is mostly rubbish

N

You are asking people surfing STW during office hours about focus ? :-)

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/commonprojects/extensions/

My vote is that it is a potting shed

I wonder if it is a deliberate mistake or other that that the two helix splines are opposite threaded?

If the freehub is rotated forward, whatever is on that spline will be drawn outboard toward the cassette.

This is opposite to my immediate assumption that it was working like a car starter motor where a gear on a helix is thrown along a shaft and into engagement with a gear when the starter is trying to move faster than the flywheel and then when the flywheel moves faster the gear is thrown away from the gear.

If you are thinking of using sheet material for any walls then consider these dimensions when spacing the joists. You cannot easily or nicely join sheets in mid air, much better to join them at a joist.
Walls that are 4 or 8 or 12 foot wide are likely to waste less timber and require fewer cuts.

If you are still stuck, I would try to find an O-ring that fitted in the space. This should centralise the plate and still give a little compliance.
:mrgreen:

The base design case for any reflector is an elipse which any point on the surface receives light from the led and with the angle of incidence = the angle of reflection to create a beam of parallel light.

Sorry if that is obvious. but in any case unless you can vacuum apply aluminum then you wont get a worthwhile reflective surface.
The trouble with all reflectors in my opinion / experience is that only the light that hits the reflector can be affected by it. so from all the angles that you can look into the front of a torch and can directly see the LED the light coming from the LED has not been modified by the reflector.
This can be +/- 30deg and if you combine that with the angle of radiation diagram from the datasheet you can see that the majority of the light does not hit the reflector.
For that reason I much prefer optics as all of the light goes through it.
Not sure if i have seen any for a 7mm dome, but thats no bigger than a Seoul P7 Kaidomain might be worth a look.

Which is why my driveway is being excavated as we speak (well as i type)

apparently they have used the jack hammers last night ( at kids bedtime) then they used a big henry to suck out the dirt
They are currently waiting for a mole.

I am 2000 miles away placing Chinese whispers trying to work out wtf is going on

Fits same hub :-)

The boss bloke James came across as a petulant schoolboy on a power trip – addressing his minions from the balcony.
Did he really think he was going to get three candidates with perfect CVs (ie working for a competitor) to take one week of holiday to attend an interview that would then be shown on TV?
Two of whom would have had to go back to their old work with everyone knowing they failed to get the job and their management knowing they wanted to leave.

Also really pleased to see some more rational replies
My experience is much less dramatic.
I would agree that the real story is not how poor the poor are- everyone can understand that – but it is how rich the rich are.
I was at a wedding out there on a tiny traffic free desert island trying to make conversation with the guest next to me, I was surprised he had not visited the island before as he said he said he holidayed in the area. He then explained how his family owned the next door island and proceeded to show me a video clip on his phone taken from his helicopter that showed the yacht moored in the lagoon that they had excavated. :roll:
we really did not have a whole lot in common – we didnt even have a nanny or housekeeper FFS :oops:

Most (all) regulars would use a drysuit, but I made do with a 7mm Suit with a 5mm shortie on-top. I was as warm as the drysuit people underwater.
But when on the surface they just needed to unzip and they were warm and dry again but in a wetsuit, that was when the cold suddenly hit you and I needed to take wetsuit off

So you can easily be warm enough to enjoy the dive and stay down as long as your air lets you.

something like this + matching shortie
Dive Wetsuits

Down south in the Desk engineering sector it is pretty dire, project just canned, last week of re-reimbursable pay next week.
Chat in the kitchen just now was talk of friends who have been on the bench for a year – that will test any war chest.
Many companies are playing hardball with staff payoffs, government min, feeling foolish I did not spend the past 5 years earning double as contractor :(

I have a modest sized laptop (Latitude E7240) that fits just nicely in an evoc CC6L rucksack – with some room for phone and keys but little else.
All other bags designed for laptops were all huge by comparison.

it is of course completely unprotected but if it hits the ground when I am wearing it. I am far more concerned that I have just been knocked off

Ours had two expansion vessels (#boastoftheday)
but the pipe linking them to the system was blocked, so all testing and re-pressurising of the expansion vessels did not work – took a while to locate that issue

Which reminds me – need to get a power flush or British gas wont come round to fix it again.

Have been forced into a 40mile each way commute and even though I am compensated by time and cost – I would jump at a the opportunity to get back to 10 miles.
Also check the train costs for individual day tickets if any part of your journey goes against the london commute.

eg
Woking to Basingstoke
Single – £11.10
Return – £11.20 ( ie 10p extra for adding the return)
Monthly ticket £250+ more than the cost of five returns per week ?!
I can only assume it is because it is going against commute direction

My understanding is that as long as the Asbestos is happily solidly in the walls / roof then it is fine as it stay there – it does not give off any fumes.

If however you are breaking it up then all the dust flies around the air and gets stuck in your lungs.

My only concern would be that some dust would likely have fallen off over time and be sitting on the floor – If you then get a nice big fan then all that starts getting blown around and breathed in.
Is it possible to get it hosed down with a pressure washer.

or for £50 you can send off to a lab and see what the asbestos content is

Woodbines avenue opposite has permit parking ending at 6.30 – or if you arrive early then I would choose the bittoms car park- not sure what time it shuts, it has an outside bit and a multi-storey bit, the outside bit has some reseverd spaces for council/offices during the week- not sure what time that restriction ends.

Three blokes – two bedrooms !

My concern would be
1. two people appear to accepted something to be already in a flat if you kick off and they didnt then you are obviously a trouble maker
– what did they accept (and are they moving same distance / married etc)

2. an employer that cheap would likely choose absolute minimum severance – ie zero.

need to get existing blokes onboard that it is not OK to share bedrooms.

I would expect to expense all travel costs and get an allowance for the travel time

I am sure you will be more then happy to get in the management frame of mind when they stop treating you like Sports direct

To clarify we booked our Galapagos tour when we were in Equador and it was many hundreds of pounds for the week but not thousands as it is booked from here.
The guide on our boat was dive qualified so while the other 10 guests only did the land trips, we sneaked in three or four dives on top of that.

I had a couple of rubbish dives in Vietnam but with that much coast – some must be better than we got

Only trouble with Equador is that you HAVE to go to the Galapagos the most amazing place, which can be an acceptable price if you book locally. Even a land based tour should be able to throw in a few dives, it wont be as good as the proper diving trips to the outer islands – but still good.

Exactly the same

but distributed evenly

At approx the same height
I have gone from 86 to 82kg in the past 30 days by being more regular with commuting cycling and trying not to finish everything on the plate.

SO as you are likely to have more will power than me I guess 86kg – same loss in a bit less time.

(assuming no coke and hookers involved)

I have got a 16″ On one scandal hanging from the garage wall – which sounds a bit large but it is 13″ center to center if I recall so the stand over is pretty good.
mail me if interested :-)

Work colleague just returned from a two week trip after just one week, he would have taken a flight back the next day if it was available.
Taj Mahal region

amongst the issues were fearless monkey prowling the hotel one snatched his glasses which were tied to his head, so monkey got the lenses leaving the arms and string behind. 8O

I am sure there are lovely places though :D

DC Rainmaker says he found it most useful on roads where he was going fast and the wind noise made hearing cars harder, and to give him a mental jolt on low traffic alpine climbs where he was concentrating on how much pain he was in.

I would be sort of tempted to know if it is one car or two approaching as I tend to move into the kerb slightly as a car passes then back out from the kerb when it is past me, I have sometimes been surprised by a second car closely following the first.

My mum has the one in the link and it is slimmer / lighter / quieter and does a better job of decreasing humidity than her previous refrigerant one.

One issue of the refrigierant ones is that they work best when the ambient air is hot, so cooling the air makes a big difference. so does bugger all in a cold room as there is so little difference between the temperatures.

The gemini charger here shows its the same one for 2,4,6 or 8 cells.
The voltage is consistent with two LiIon cells in series.

The Gemini and solarstorm etc packs are all based on two cells in series then they just keep adding pairs of cells in parallel to keep the voltage the same and increase the capacity.

So if the connector fits (and it is the right way round – ie the pin in the middle of the connector is posative/negative) then the charger should work.

N

This gives some info on a Wilson – the speed quadrant andjuster thingy looks the same.

It looks like the top fitting on the lathe is powered. I think that it fits a cutting bit like a short fat circular saw, so you use it for cutting long thin slots.

N

I can sort of see the point
Trouble was it was close to a blue trail so it got lots of passing traffic
But because it was not part of the official trail it got dug up and “improved.
If it were tucked way out of sight I dont think it would have been closed

What would be really great if it was replaced with a run of mini-doubles / table tops that were properly designed and available for practice.

You could get the thick hose to fit by cutting the clear coat, but they did have different fittings. From hope silver mono era – they had 5mm hose with 4mm being the new standard.
I have both the thick and thin alloy fittings (or I am 90% sure I still have them)

There is a theme here – Just ordered from Evans
But I might have two sets as CRC sent me a dispatch note a few days ago that showed that they are sending me the chain they have already sent me.
or do they mean another chain
or do they mean they are sending the other stuff but have not updated the status.
Not cancelling anything untill stuff is in my hands

I have not tried it personally – I read that you could (but was not paying enough attention if that was PC only.)

I ought to buy a couple of the sufferfest videos as I enjoyed them on Strava Premium but you could not overlay live data on screen or record the ride properly, let alone have any interactivity with target power relating to video.
So I cancelled Strava premium and got trainerroad.

Might get get a USB ant+ stick and golden cheetah if I get a working laptop for the garage. probably the cheapest in the long run.

Its fine – I use it on an ipad2
Need to have a multi-pin not lightning connector
My only complaint is that the real time graphical power indicator is small and tucked away to one side where it could easily be bigger and full width so you would be better able to hit targets.
(there is a dot that represents the segment average compared to target)

I really should invest / make an ipad holder that connects to bike that is secure – I am going to drop it one day

N

OARical

because you are up sh** creek

Did it being a race make it better for you?
By which I mean did you really have more fun than just going to BC and getting some guided riding.
Survival is all very well – but it is a holiday, having spoken to a few people that have done it, it would appeal to me more as a three day race with some time afterward to just do some riding at your own pace.

But then you have signed up for next year.. :-)

Can you filter by steepness of hill ?
If you put it to flat/ downhill that should filter out many of the road rides.
But I was struggling with the same last night. I also found that just moving the map around by a fraction made rides appear and disappear with dubious logic.

Doing both would actually help you as the C2W money you wont earn (from a tax perspective) which will lower your taxable salary which will mean that when your company car benefit is added in you may remain in the lower tax band.

Smart Sams are passably fast rolling tyres with some half decent knobs for when you get offroad. I have it on the front of towpath commuter. The Smorgasbord is a cheapish goodish general offroad tyre. Might even be too much if you are riding hard packed chalky brideways

Or either of the two you mention would be fine

Drove the family to the very North East of Spain last summer, will be doing it again in August. Agree with Tunnel – we did take a ferry from Portsmouth to Caan? a previous year but the benefit of not driving for a few hours was wasted by the really silly timings of the ferries.
Santander is nice, but thats £800 to get you to the wrong end of the Pyrenees. Would be tempted if I was going anywhere to the west of the country.

We went east of Paris and generally stopped at Novotels as they do family rooms and have a pool. Stopped two nights each way last year, but will be just stopping one night this year (is the plan) as it did not really work out as the road trip type adventure we had hoped. The only good night was the last night on the way home where we just drove along some A-roads until we saw a sign for a chambre d’hote and stopped there. lovely place, local restaurant, rural and secure where many of the book on the internet type places are in really grim semi-industrial trading estate type places.

Got a Sanef tag – just looked at the invoices and it comes out as £200 but there would be a few more in Spain that would not be covered by the sanef.