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nail varnish remover should be acetone I understand. I imagine the cheaper the better, without any moisturising whatevers.

although, may be other related chemicalthing:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061102091710AA2y6i8

want. can't have. committed to being a net seller rather than buyer at the moment unfortunately (and not going very well tbh) so GLWS bump

the problem was, most of what is "wrong" with the site I saw derived from it being a non-functioning test site only. I did criticise some bits. I also think it would be great to get non-lfgss initiates to test it at some point, I'm sure that is part of the plan.

That's supergood. Genuinely struggled to come up with criticisms but hopefully still managed to be useful...

^^^^^^^I don't think so, no. Maybe they chrome was thin or cheap or too far gone.

nice name by the way, "if it wasn't for handsome boy modelling school, I'da still had my sixty dollars"....

I'm v keen for this and should be able to do 9am, I will confirm by PM later today.

warning: everyone else has glowing reviews of coke + tin foil, but I ruined a set of forks with it. I don't know what I did wrong, possibly wrong sort of tin foil (?), I have no idea.

I know nothing about astronomy, but I would be an enthusiastic learner. I remember talking to you about your PHD briefly on a ride to dedham a year or two ago...

1. Hairnetnic
   
2. Chak
   
3. shinkuu kiss
   
4. Ludd
   
5. blue fleet
   
6. sky-browse.
   
7. t.o. infinity and beyond
   

is it yours?

looks great - good job

On my way with a very random assortment of bits for projects that never happened....

Dear LFGSS

Bump. Never changed gear cables before, now installing some on a new build (have built bikes before but never with gears...) Sheldon says "crisscross" the cables.

I think this means:

Rear cable route: right hand shifter to left hand gear cable stop on top of down tube near head tube in housing, then continue down to right hand side of plastic cable guide on bottom bracket, then on to rear mech.

Front cable route: opposite. Left lever, right frame cable guide, left side of plastic bottom bracket guide, front mech.

This will result in the crossing of the exposed cables somewhere down the length of the underside of the down tube. Presumably this is the crisscross. Is this right?

Yours sincerely,

Cables crossed of London

And PS I also do not log in to anything that requires google/facebook log in. I don't have google+/facebook....

why? e.g. my sister came to visit me, and parked using someting called something like www.parkatmyhouse.com - she logged in using facebook.

My dad then later that day called and said "oh, yes, I knew you were visiting, you paid £13 to park on someone's driveway". Apparently by logging in (and probably not un-ticking a box or something, I don't know) my sister "liked" the parking website so it came up on her feed.

I would become almost 100% a lurker if I were required to use my real name - I don't want to have an internet presence at all particularly - I don't wander the streets shouting about my interest in 9mmx26tpi nuts with a big sign around my neck showing my real name, so I don't want to do it online either :)

I am open to being persuaded otherwise by people who have thought more about it than I have, but my initial thoughts are:

1) Users

Some users want anonymity. I would say most users do - for all the various reasons above, it promotes deeper discussion, it means your work cannot see exactly how much time you spend posting on internet forums, your boyfriend doesn't find out you've been posting in a relationship advice thread, etc etc.

I know that the point is you are trying to work out whether they do, but if your users want anonymity then you need to provide it!

2) making microcosm work as a business

Facebook, google, apple (?) require real ID, and are huge and permanent.
AFAIK there is no uniform underlying provider for the online services that are anonymous. Microcosm could become that. Maybe a good thing, maybe not - why are the big ones not anonymous?

Facebook etc. are advertising/marketing tools. I think that they miss the point that we are interesting to people selling things because we are consumers (i.e. people who like things and want to buy them [and talk about them, and work out which is best to buy/watch/eat/visit/etc]) - not because we are Real Person X, who is friends with Real Person Y.

I'm not explaining this very well.

I think that the real identity is probably not important to the people who will end up paying the bills and help make microcosm successful - people who advertise things. I am not sure that they agree though.

If you are a "socially conscious" brand selling things, then you might be happy to say to your customers "we get market info from XYZ system, which gives us deep, useful data on anonymous consumers".

Maybe.

http://www.velodromeshop.net/index.php?p=product&id=747

hubjub have "cheap" knock offs at £12.50 a pair, and there are always some on ebay if you're desperate/rich.

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did you ever get your guy to make them?

^^they look perfect, exactly the same, obviously. Good detective work finding it, they don't seem to be available anywhere else

thanks! approx how not cheap is "not cheap"? I have just opened one up. It was easy. Slightly harder to close it again and make sure the lip on the seal stays outside, but I will deal with that properly later. I am just going to buy some new bearings - the races look fine - and then I will have a refurbished DA headset. Do you still have your old cartridges? Can I have them? :)

tardy dredge:

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=114244

Retrobike suggest that a bunch of different cartidges might fit.

This site: http://search.bikelist.org/beta/TreeView.aspx?id=433232 also has many more links.

Yes, I have one of these dura ace cartridge headsets and I think that the cartridges are shot, although I am working out how to open them with out damaging them.

I will try that, and if I can't, I will try to buy some... the ones I thought I saw at SJS were 1 1/8 which is no good.

yeah - that rings a bell, I read about it on sheldon brown. or a link from there I can't remember. It's so easy to F up though.

reckon it would work though, but you'd have to be careful to do it right.

Got them fine & they're good. Apart from going awol Charlie came good in the end. I wouldn't rule out trading with him in future but he'd have to have something I really really wanted!

PM'd you - they must have sold the last set today