Badges? We don’t need no stinkin badges!

Broadsword calling Danny boy. Over

I rescued a pile of galvanised 5mm fencing wire from our local trails. Among other things, I made this bit of garden wall art from it. I found a picture on the internet, printed it on A4 and copied onto a cardboard template at 5x size. After much cutting, shaping, welding and grinding here it is:

remember the plan

What’s this I hear?

Is there any sign of a keyway? If not perhaps the mystery hole has a roll pin in it connecting the sprocket to the shaft. There would normally be something to prevent the sprocket rotating on the shaft. Shrink fit is unlikely but no matter what, you might need a puller to get it off.

Indeed, you’ll need to do a bit of measuring. 14mm is not a common chain pitch.

These are the common sizes:

Maybe it’ll go soft after a long ride ☺️

The Callendar Estate trails are near Falkirk. They’re not near the town of Callander. 

Falkirk High station for Callendar Estate trails 😊

Roaster 

I use Grid Reference – seems to work OK. 

Count me in please – KevinPhilipsBong on Chess.com

My hovercraft is full of eels
I think we have the next random comment on the mag spine.

(Where do those come from anyway?)

Monty Python’s Flying Circus where all the best quotes come from 😃

Good news for us bimblers 🙂

they are also clearing the fallen trees from the Green at the same time

Does that mean the green will be reopened?

I’ve got some sheets off ply with many screws and nails. This is an older picture – some stuff has been moved to accommodate more hammers.

I was expecting something completely different 

The

Stainless steel bearing on carbon steel shaft is a combination that will produce galvanic corrosion in the right moist conditions (there’s a 0.35V difference in anodic index and it needs to be less than 0.15V difference for harsh environments). The carbon steel will corrode in preference to the SS. This combined with a bit of fretting is possibly what you see here. If the shaft is assembled to the bearings with a bit of grease and regularly replenished then the fretting/corrosion would be less likely.

I run hope SS BB and Shimano HT2 but the interface is regularly regreased when stripping down to clean out the outer seal grooves.

Challenging stuff is no problem for me on my HT. I mean, can manage to get up and down the trolley ramp at Tesco. Thinking of getting a dropper to help with the down bit.

These ones along the B818 at Carron Valley:

Meanwhile, winston and I are on the brink of a romance

Surely Girlfriend is Better?

I think we’ll see many useless frames due to broken motors over the coming years

Is there an opportunity here to offer a BB conversion kit where the fitment of ‘acoustic’ 🤢 cranksets would allow these ‘dead’ frames a new lease of life? The battery compartments could be repurposed as frame storage locations for the insertion of pies and other picnic essentials.

Fix a shelf above the door, parallel with the runner.

Attach a rear bike wheel with tyre and sprocket/cassette to the door so that the tyre is pressing on the underside of the shelf.

Attach old crank and and chainwheel to door at convenient height.

Attach chain between sprocket and chainwheel.

Attach pedal spindle to crank.

Turn crank to open/close the door

Like this:

Us lot will panic buy all the toilet paper and when the aliens find that there’s none left for them they’d bugger off to a more civilised planet.

I had to buy tangible items up to the designated value (and not a penny more!).

I’ve got these Soft Jaws for my 6″ vintage Record No. 36 vice.

When I was at uni (mechanical engineering) we weren’t allowed calculators and had to use a slide rule.

We often cycle through Rasp Wood between Denny and Larbert 🙂

A while back we had a holiday in Stockholm with our teenage son. He commented on the lack of overweight/obese people (compared with home in Scotland).

So I quess in that respect I’ve been in a Thin Place 😊

Air con pipe in my Alfa. The crimping around the rubber pipe, where it connects to the aluminium solid pipe, was showing signs of splitting but there was no evidence of leaking (unlike another one I had to replace recently, at huge cost).

I made up a clamping block to reinforce the crimping, thus:

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Anyone else seeing that this thread on the main forum page is showing only 1 reply?

Yes to that ^

And I’m getting the that thing @Scotroutes mentioned on mobile (Chrome) and desktop (Firefox).

Snake Plissken

Two 397 watch batteries 😊

On the Moray Coast Trail between Findochty and Portknockie.

Further pedantry – below a certain thread length bolts are also fully threaded.