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So there's 24 hours in a day. Let's say 12 mph average. That = 288 miles so 144 miles out and the same back.

Just how far away is the new tag???

Anyone got any tips for buying in the Plumstead / Abbey Wood area?

In what respect?

I know the area reasonably well having spent my first 20 odd years in Abbey Wood and then Woolwich.

or perhaps straping a carbon fishing rod to your back and heading out into a thunder storm to see just how fast it really could go.?

Mine are all doors in our recently decorated and carpeted home so dust limitation is important. Carrying them outside is not really an option, particularly as 8 of the doors are on the top floor of a 3 floor town house.

Don't be put off by the rounded corners you can easily cut those out with a chisel. The set up time will be longer with the template router/laminate trimmer but the job will be much quicker and the results better.
Of course using hand tools can be much more enjoyable and if you just do a few doors at a time it's no big deal.
Get your chisel sharp as fuck and you'll be fine.
Make some wedge clamps so you can work easily on the doors.

Wedge clamps are on their way too.

The only thing I'm lacking is a big dose of HTFU. These are all fire check doors and are frigging heavy.

Any power tool is going to leave rounded corners so it's down to hand tools. I'm just going to plod my way through them as and when the urge takes me. The builder must have found the only 100 mm hinges in the world. All other manufacturers make them the 4" equivalent.
Marples chisles on order.

Still struggling with the Arione I fitted to my steamroller. I went for around a 20 mile ride last night and it started getting uncomfortable after about 10. What I did notice though was that if I sat further back on the saddle it immediately felt much more comfortable. This got me thinking that I may have positioned the saddle wrong. I measured from the tip of the old saddle to the stem and replicated this measurement on the new saddle however I recall reading somewhere that the Arione is a longer saddle. I have moved it forward around 10 mm but have yet to give it a try.
Out of interest, what is the usual method for positioning a replacement saddle?

Sort of what you've done. I usually measure nose to (some point of) bars, plus BB to top, half way along. Also replicate angle with spirit level laid along it's length.

But then you have to experiment/estimate differences based on saddle length, sag/squish, location of main sit-point, curve/profile, etc. Inevitably there will be further fettling after the initial fit.

I moved the saddle forward around 10 mm as mentioned above and finally got to give it a proper test yesterday. I covered around 35 fairly wet miles wearing exactly the same clothing as had been worn when finding the saddle uncomfortable previously.

This time around I'm happy to report the saddle was much better. Not perfect but that small adjustment made a huge difference.

Moral? Position is probably as important, if not more so, than the saddle.

Ah, so I should not have done this..

I think you're ok. Aquapanel is supposed to be waterproof? It should therefore not suck the moisture from your tiling. Wickes leaflet says tile in the normal way.
http://www.wickes.co.uk/content/ebiz/wickes/resources/images/gil/54.pdf

I've got around 60 doors hinges to replace. The new ones are slightly longer and thicker than the old ones. I really need this guy on my side.
Skip to around 2 minutes in. Awesome!!!!
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new door with mortise hinges - YouTube[/ame]

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(wasn't your brompton red??)

....(Brompton; courtesy of John!!)

Do keep up....

;-)

Seeing as the current tag is a billboard of some description, I'm thinking of digging out the paperclip bike again and getting this one via Google Street Images

"Phase I'm going through" = stage door.

Nope. All I'm getting is 10cc's I'm not in love.

I'm a bit of a left handed oddity in that I write with my left hand but am right handed for everything else including throwing, kicking plus all those other activities mentioned on the first page - OK I do use my left hand sometimes for at least one of them.

Oh, and Davina? Would!

Has the management company not got a sinking fund for such major projects?

Are all the 30 flats you mention on upper floors? It would be unreasonable to expect owners of ground floor flats to contribute towards the cost of the lifts.

^^^^ Cav either got dressed in the dark of someone's mixed up his pairs of arm warmers in the laundry.

It's a fucking box on a cable, with some basic electronics to make a winch start and stop.

Elija Otis will be turning in his grave!

I've been working alongside the lift trade for many years so know a fair bit about the industry although I'm not involved at the sharp end of the cost of new equipment.
The new lift side of the industry has got cheaper due to the effects of modern mass production techniques plus an influx of cheaper lifts sourced from overseas but it sounds like your telephone box on string will need a bespoke replacement made specifically to fit the exisiting lift shaft rather than a new build where lift shafts are built to British Standard sizes for given lift capacities and a cheap package lift can be easily sourced to fit.

Has the managing agent used a consultant and put the job out to tender to at least 3 companies? They may have just got a budget cost from a consultant at this stage.

I was involved in the renewal recently of all the lifts in an old mansions block in Streatham. The lifts were really small. This actually made a lot of the work much harder due to the limited workspace. Smaller isn't always cheaper.

Non!

Lost the USB socket cover off the back of my Garmin over the weekend. Rang Garmin and they had them in stock and offered a replacement absolutely free and gratis.
Envelope arrived today with not one but 2 inside.
Excellent!

Ha!

Close enough.

Where can I get some really big wall plugs?

There IS a god

It happened in Bethlehem - what more proof do you need? It's not too late to be saved.

Well yes. It is in Bethlhem

Note to self. Don't post until after at least the 2nd coffee of the morning.

:-)

I just realised DFP was refering to another video and not the original. Disregard my last post.

Note to self. Don't post until after at least the 2nd coffee of the morning.

That may be a lot of things but, unless the driver had planned on running someone down that day, attempted murder it is not.

It looks like the car that was 2 behind the bus started overtaking then decided to undertake when the bus pulled out to pass the cyclist.

Without wishing to blame the cyclist in the least, watching the cars coming up behind him earlier suggests to me that is not a particularly safe stretch of road to cycle on.

The state of his bike suggests he was one lucky guy and likewise, well done the bus driver.

Have you not heard the story?

Poleonabike's father went trecking in the mountains one day but sadly never returned. Many years later a hiker discovered what appeared to be frozen dinasours droppings. He carefully bagged this up and passed it on to the Polish Natural History Museum. Upon examination an old Kodak Instamatic was found inside one of the nuggets containing a roll of exposed film. This was the last picture on the roll.