I wouldn’t bother with a budget one at all, it will be so inaccurate and the repeatability will be terrible. If it’s adjustable then no matter how good it is you need to check the setting on a torque analyser after any adjustent anyway. IMHO you would be better spending the money on a good set of hex keys (FACOM are good value vs. quality).

That said, if you really want one I find a torque driver more useful for bike use than a wrench and have a Lindstrom which is really very good, but expensive.

Kids and going self employed slowed me down a lot

I don’t know any hotels, but have been to Antwerp a few times, the nice square was probably the Grote Markt. The grotty area by the station was probably the red light district!

I can ask around if you aren’t in a hurry, some kids in my daughters class are from Antwerp.

Ti + Paint = Welded, not seamless tubes?

I’m with bencooper on the backlash issue. All CNC controllers (that I’ve used) have backlash compensation parameters.

Can it vary along the length of the leadscrew? Of course, especially on lathes where the screw wears faster closer to the chuck than the tail. If the difference is significant AND you need the accuracy along the whole bed then you need a new leadscrew! I was taught how to use a lathe by a dour Welsh machinist who liked to make parts which fit together :-)

Chainring bolt spacers? BB thread chaser?

But if you are like me you will spend way more time making tooling to hold other parts than actually making the parts you need.

100-400L? not f2.8 but knock the ISO up a stop and get a copy of noise ninja or similar

I was working for a company in Japan where everyone wore the same uniform. Lunchtime on the first day I was escorted to the canteen one of my new colleagues, we got our food and he said we’d find the others in our team to sit with. Me, “How can you find them? Everyone looks the same”
I had a net in the garden for golfing practice so there was always golf balls lying around, one day when our then toddler was in the garden I heard the wife shout “don’t put daddies balls in your mouth they’re dirty” I honestly expected social services to be round within the hour.

Ours was on science plan from being a pup with a handful of veg thrown in. For the last few weeks we’ve been trying a RAW diet, it’s not for the squeamish and takes a bit of effort (and a spare chest freezer) but the dog seems to love it and we aren’t getting anything like as much coming out of the back end.

We have a beagle x cocker and she is about perfect for us.

Will run all day if given the chance (especially if a rabbit is involved) easily able to outrun me on singletrack for an hour (not really a yardstick for dog athleticism to be honest, a pug would give me a run for my money). Her general obedience is really good and she’s like a sponge when you spend time working with her, but if she’s not in the mood you’re wasting your time. The negatives are she needs to be kept active or she can get destructive, she digs everything out of the garden given half a chance, she’s quite ‘mouthy’ which can be a bit scary for non-dog owning visitors and she sheds a lot of hair. We’re getting another dog soon and it will be either the same again, a beagle, a cocker or a vizsla

We used a Quencha Seconds Family 4.1 on a recent trip. It was easy to put up, it kept us dry in a fairly heavy thunderstorm, it dries quickly and is easy to pack away. For us (2 adults a 6yr old and a dog) it’s fine for 1 or 2 nights in good weather, any longer and it would be a bit cramped, and if the weather was bad there isn’t too much sitting room inside.

I did get a round of applause and a beer from an old couple for packing it away on my own in less than 5mins at Legoland funnily enough. They had been touring around Europe and seen various people struggling with them for hours apparently so were having a sweepstake on it. I’m no tent packing away God, there’s just a knack to it, just think giant penis as you fold it up!

so rather than having cars moving relatively freely on a roundabout they now have to stop, sit and wait for a green light?

No, the roundabout was traffic light controlled before, and was a PITA because even when it was green there would be a constant stream of bikes going past so you could never pull onto it. Most large junctions whether roundabouts or not are traffic lighted, the ones that aren’t traffic lighted are a pain because the Dutch don’t seem to know how to indicate.

could they have built tunnels for the bikes rather than an elevated cycle path for a similar cost, thus not affecting traffic flow??

Pretty much all the roundabouts on that road have tunnels for bikes. The Hovenring isn’t being lauded as the most practical solution, it just looks cool and Veldhoven / Eindhoven are pretty affluent areas with a big surplus in the ‘geemente’ coffers, so why not?

motor traffic seems hugely respectful of cyclists

As well as everyone cycling, one big factor which influences motorist behaviour is that the default position is that the motorist is at fault if they hit a bike, the onus is on them to prove their innocence.