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As said, plain old supermarket spray window cleaner works best. It has a little bit of vinegar in it, but only to acidify the cleaner I think. This whole fad of cleaning everything with white vinegar does little other than make the house stink of fish and chips.

Don't use too much, like one spray per window. Wipe the window down until it's dry, turn the cloth over and use the dry side to wipe the smears off. If the windows are really dirty or greasy (e.g. kitchen) it'll take a couple of goes before they'll just wipe clean and smear-free.

Those levers are a very French thing, found on randonneurs and campeurs. I don’t know if the original intention was this, but they allow you to completely pack around the front of the bars on a rack and with a bar bag in the middle and still have access to pull the brakes 👍

Ha! My pal works in the industry so always has stuff like this knocking around. Maybe best I don’t look up how much some of it costs!

Invest in a box of Dormer jobber drills and you’ll never look back. Get the black ones if you use a battery drill, not the A002 ones. Those ones are fine in pillar drills etc, but the tips chip easily and the shanks are very soft.

Oh wow, it’s properly chewed that up!

That’s a Mk1 RSW 66. That’s complete and even has its original saddle. Looks filthy but not corroded. They’re REALLY good little bikes compared to all other small wheeled bikes IMO. If it’s still available I’d 100% snap that up.

It’s got a conventional ball headset, standard bottom bracket, Sturmey Archer rear, Dynohub front and shares pretty much everything with the Raleigh Chopper. Heavy bike but it’ll survive the apocalypse.

I had mine from 2010 to earlier this year. Station to work bike for 6 years and it went to Le Mans a couple of times and into London all the time. Then it was my OH’s station bike and it’s had a Hamax kids seat on since about 2019. I only gave it up when we separated earlier this year because I knew she’d use it for the school run.

Tldr; they’re fucking good bikes.

This is a thinking man’s hack. If the string is too stretchy, I reckon a wire coat hanger might be long enough when unfolded 👍

That might be so, but don’t call me a helmet!

Wait did you both just call me a helmet?

Calm down, it’s only a bike forum!

Nah, monkey brain is when you split the Irish Cream with a bit of lemon or lime juice and then drizzle grenadine over it so it looks like brain floating in blood 👍

Are there any particularly "good" supermarket milks for steaming?

What do you mean by “good”? I just use supermarket whole milk (usually Sainsbury’s because that’s my local supermarket). It’s homogenised, like most milk is now, which makes it very consistent. Every now and then I’ll get a bottle that won’t steam nicely and it froths up like washing up liquid, but it’s rare. Sometimes I’ll get semi-skimmed if I fancy my cups a bit lighter. If I want that really Italian cappuccino taste I’ll get a carton of UHT because it’s closest to their milk. I haven’t tried the filtered milks like Cravendale though.

I wouldn’t get a Jersey milk or any other unhomogenised gold top, because you’ll have to work hard to reincorporate the cream and it’ll behave inconsistently when you steam it.

Regarding moths eating woollen items, is it actually moth grubs that do this or is it silverfish? Silverfish are destructive little bastards and really difficult to get rid of. Tips to get rid of them welcome because I’ve got them in my new place and I’d like to deal with them before they destroy my sofa and the rest of the carpet.

I forgot about them! Which is annoying because I’ve moved, but I was actually back in Staines earlier where there is one!

In case you were wondering what I did with the DIN to RCA/phono conversion, which I’m pretty sure you’re not, I didn’t want the plugs sticking out the back so I recessed them. Some random monster-size 4.8m long Cambridge Audio phono lead I’ve got which you’d think was waaaaay too long but works perfectly well and means there’s enough cable that the kids don’t rip the whole thing off the wall when they’re playing records.

Deck update. My mum lent me her LP collection which is a box of 50+ LPs from late 60s to early 70s. Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, through some early Hendrix re-pressings, Rolling Stones, Led Zep, Cream etc, Deep Purple and some prog rock that I didn’t know she was into. A pal has lent me his ultrasonic record cleaner as some of them are filthy. Makes a massive difference.

I’m now on the lookout in the charity shops for early jazz records. There’s a probably mid-60s Stephane Grappelli LP waiting at one of the charity shops near work that I need to grab and I picked up an early 70s 2-disc best of Henri Mancini earlier for 50p.

It’s very chilled listening to records compared to other media. I haven’t played a record for well over 25 years. I’d forgotten what they were like.

Good shout.

@umop3pisdn it’s probably not worth it for bog standard 6x4 frames?

Any recommendations for where to get reasonably priced photo frames with a plain black frame, for multiple 6x4 prints and 8x10 prints? I initially thought IKEA or Next, but both have failed me so far. IKEA seem to be 7x5 and up. I’m sure Next used to be full of plain photo frames but not this time.

Great stuff! Tom Kristensen has previous at Goodwood too!

https://youtu.be/o25ats_KXRk

^ If you can find the whole race it’s well worth a watch!

It's very close, but the pins are more widely spaced (22.5mm vs. 15mm). The circuit board appears to be drilled for both, so I may well give it a try.

The pin spacing won’t make any difference. Just bend the pins if necessary.

Here’s a 15mm one if you want like-for-like: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286074521560

100% the longer ones based on what I use my shite ones for. Those adjustable side cutters look like fucking weapons. I’d REALLY watch your fingers with those because they’re going to be able to snip through an M6 bolt or bigger with little effort 👍

Don’t wish to bring cake-pedantry into this week’s memes thread derail options, but gateaux is plural.

Amex really are the best

Hit me up for a referral

Is Jamie Oliver ok? Watching this What to Eat This Week malarkey on 4+1 and he looks like shit, sounds like shit (in a bad way) and he’s huffing and puffing. Health gone bad?

I quite liked it. Cool-looking business district, the redeveloped riverbed park, nice old-town, beach, good food and you can do the whole lot on their city bike scheme.

Glass in contact with the boiling water

Is that an important thing?