If you have a few quid free for facing, spend it.

Having a smooth, flush and parallel metal surface for the bearings to sit against is likely to extend the lifespan of a BB by preventing any deformation of the races and pressure spots. It’s also likely to stay tight in the frame with less force, meaning you are able to fit it with lots of anti-seize [not grease, esp/ not PTFE grease], not over torque it and still have it come out again without a scaf bar and the biggest bloke in the LBS sitting on the end of the lever.

The threads will also be chased, so that’s handy as well.

Our 1.3 is 16 years old and as far as I’m aware nothing has ever gone wrong with it.

Get the steering bushings replaced.

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Is a hive of information, good times and, is generally great.

Better with a P though.

The Villager at my folk’s house does that.

>One of the many reasons I won’t be bothering to renew my P

Oh come-on….

I was going to answer this but

>Eriksson T28/T39 – YES!!!

My father won one of these in a ?Hi-Fi World? competition:

If you looked at it it would skip. When it had finished skipping the battery would be flat. Sounded good though!

Anyone else had one of these?

>Asteroids
I had that, ass grapes from space :/

>The drawer is a bit sticky but otherwise fine.
Re-grease the rails for the drawer?

>V8_shin_print
What is that laptop? Some Ultraportable P2 thinggy?

RE Amstrad:

Lister JP3. Bomb proof, and not even hard to start when in good nick.

Oh and for turntables:
…you’re not going back far enough, this is the shit.

As I have said before – Henry is great but not suited to people with restricted strength or ability to bend down to pick it up when it falls over.

WTAF

Some people are just beyond my ken.

New page please!

gifs you can load all day?

foil backed insulation

Hmmmpf. Good luck with planA then :)

high prevailing winds between the buildings made me consider cable instead

You said the buildings are timber, you might be able to get a decent signal with antenna within the roofspace.

Cables are perhaps easier, but this may be a possible planB

The 10w light is probably below the latching capability of the circuit in the PIR, it’s likely designed for halogen lamps consuming 50-150w or such.

Additionally, the way the LEDs draw current may also not match the draw of a simple filament lamp (resistive).

I’d try wiring it up again, but yes you may need to replace it with something that is designed for LEDs. This is also a common problem with LEDs and dimmers.

Can’t you just use a directional wi-fi antenna?

You’re really tiresome ninfan, you know that, right?

Both when about 15:

A “Danger Of Death, Keep Off” sign obtained by….. climbing the pylon it was attached to.

I tried to steal an abandoned Ford Escort, twice. It was lying in a ditch with a stream trickling through the bodywork. The first time I waited in it for my friend who was more car-savvy to arrive. I waited there 3 hours, in the dark, in a ditch, on it’s side, while the snow gently fell through the broken windows. Eventually I sodded off.

The second time we decided to drive there. In a 1950’s hand-start Lister Diesel dumper. First I was nearly shot waiting for my friend to wake up [we always snuck out at night for out misbehavin’]. His father heard the dogs bark and stood on the balcony with his modified 5 shot narrow choke repeating shotgun, scanning for an intruder. He was a shoot-first ask questions later kinda guy so I was probably dribbling piss the whole time I hid behind their car. When my buddy finally managed to sneak out, we had to hand crank the dumper up the lane in gear to get off the property without getting shot. After cranking the thing a few hundred meters we started it and with just a single squeeze of the throttle and the momentum of the flywheel we shot up the lane. Pulling onto the road with bike lights held overhead, a flashing red red LED light and a 50W halogen in the bucket with a load of lifting tackle we set out to drive the 10km to drag the thing out of the ditch. After just a few KM we get a puncture and had to pull into the local garage for air. This attracted such strange looks that we thought they might call the police. We were stoned-as, uninsured, incorrectly lit, without licences and on the way to steal something. Point of fact, we were also without brakes!

Turning back we drove along towards Loe Beach again, and along the way we had to descend a hill. My buddy, thinking he wanted to get back home quick before we were arrested decided it would be a good idea to take the truck out of gear as it would roll faster than it would rev. Down the hill we went, building speed. As we approached the bottom of the hill we realised we were going waaay to fast to get around the corner, and it was at this moment we knew we’d ****ed up. On the outside of the corner was one of Cornwall’s older and very attractive pubs….. we were heading on a path to demolish it.

At this point it became obvious that we had overlooked the importance of synchromesh…. we couldn’t get the thing back into gear to decelerate! As I prepared to bail out of the vehicle my buddy put one foot against the gear stick and the other flat to the floor on the accelerator – at the very last moment we got it into gear, released the gofasterpedal and rounded the corner on two wheels [well, it felt like it].

At least I didn’t spend the night sitting alone in the car again…..

And another thing. STW now completely screws up formatting on posts that contain quotes, with the font or spacing being affected. See above.

If you can highlight which ads, is it a particular rogue advert that STW can track down?

App dude, I can see it’s Chrome using background data when the phone is locked; It’s a feature in EMUI. I can’t see which Ads are doing it, but it seems to happen all the time so I figure it’s not the specific Ad, but is infact something about STW’s code updating or changing the Ads every now and then, regardless of whether the user is interacting with the page.

It is not Autoplay, as on my device it is currently disabled and Data Saver is enabled. Also, it’s after the page is loaded. IE I read STW, lock the screen after a page/thread and when I unlock the device I have a notification that Chrome is using data in the background. Usually this is 4-5MB as I tend to unlock the phone every 30 minutes or so.

It runs around 8-10MB per hour if I don’t quit the browser and leave Chrome open on STW pages. Should be easy enough for others to verify, whether they have EMUI or another Android version, by checking the daily data use before and after they unlock the phone.

I have Chrome Background Sync and Background Data disabled. I have many many data using settings disabled, even Address Autocomplete, so this really is odd. When I turned the background data notification on I freaked out!

‘s alright nach, I survived.

I think the fact that I spent at least 5 minutes making a Valentine’s day scribble means that I escape with only a thrashing, as opposed to being confined to sleeping on the thing.

I was intending to take all the useful advice here to heart, but seeing as I had to go to bloody shop anyway I opted to spend my beer allowance on it.

As usual STW is a hive of useful information. When I invariably spill beans on it* in the future we can try the washing instructions so helpfuly volunteered here :P

*as I also managed to do with my only signed copy of a Pratchett book, lol

Only jelly shots at the bar though :/

big ugly ones

They probably think the same of us.

A sound thrashing.

It was not quite what I had in mind.

Same as every year – buggier all.

??!

Once, when kyaking off Cornwall I saw something like that in the water. It looked a foot or so across and a few cm down…so I tried to prod it a little with the oar.

When the paddle was all in the water I was able to guess the true size. It was a meter or more across, and a lot deeper down than I thought! I tried not to fall in after that.

Riiight.

Thanks for all the help, being me I screwed up though. When taking it off, there was a strip of really strong velcro I didnt see along the back/seat line and I tore the shitty papery fabric the entire length of a seat without even feeling it – I thought the velcro beside it was coming away.

So now it’s being sewn up, and at the same time dry-cleaned [cheaper to do both at once]. And yes, I am in the shit.

Enormously. And judging by the way you wrote back to me, I think there’s no point going further in to why.

Ironing helps the fabric spread out does it?

Shit. Now I need an iron :P

Arrival”, something which IMHO is a total disgrace.

I agree it was.[/quote]

Wat. You hated Arrival?

>Not hugely expensive to get it dry cleaned
Wrong country, sadly, but thanks :)

>Just leave it? I assume you have a Woodburner so before long your home will have the sought after aroma of a country pub.
Good answer. Sadly there is no woodburner, but I could try rubbing some peanuts into it and setting fire to a little kindling in the corner. Nice :)

>The issue will be how much it shrinks. It’ll probably wash fine but you may find you can’t get the bloody thing back on!
I think you’re probably right. The cover is a tight fit, so even if it shrinks just a little it might be buggered I guess. I have no frame of reference for this, maybe my wool jumpers have shrunk a couple of percent and I didn’t even notice.

Thanks for the tips…. I’ll consider my options.

ho hum…

Well, some information online says that “dry clean only” is often used as a catch-all but I can’t find out why or what makes the difference.

Is it really that simple? Things so often aren’t!

Also – I can’t pay for cleaning – can’t afford it, so trying to figure out how to DI(M)Y

For me, this thread is still b0rked from the LI tag.

I’m writing to raise the issue of background data again – every time I leave chrome open on this mobile site it eats megs of data in the background, more than facebook or the Graun or something.

Perhaps limit the number of ads that update themselves? No other website does this!

NB I can track which apps are using the background data, so it really is STW and not another page/app.

I thought it was great fun. Yaaa yaaa it’s unrealistic*, but then so are most films? Are you Vin Diesel or Lupita Nyong’o…? Is life Technicolour?

They can’t sing great, they can’t dance great etc etc – dunno seems reasonable to me. They do it well enough to entertain, and they do it well enough to make it a fun part of the story – mucking around on the hill looking for their cars. Pure symbolism :) Could it be escapism? I hear this from a lot of people who think the critical approach to films is a pretentious, and yet in many cases they’re on the other side now!

It’s a story, a story that moves in a way that is both time-honoured and also somewhat inventive. There aren’t many truly original stories left, so it’s not really in the minority there.

Seems to me, as with so many films, that it’s those that bring something into the cinema that tend to have the most anti reaction. I don’t usually like musicals, but I really really enjoyed it. I had to leave my prejudices behind, and it worked a treat….. just went with it.

Main gripe: WTF Focus Puller?! Certainly not up to the usual standards in film. Could be deliberate, but I was watching The Graduate the other day, with several long zoom shots. Much shake, but when they went for a focal transition they nailed it.

Overall – it worked for me. Very much.

*well, at least for almost everyone that’s going to see it.