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It looks like a Shimano external bottom bracket (Hollowtech or Hollowtech 2 or sommat). It’s usually a big cup thing that goes on the end of a ratchet, but it looks like you can get open-ended wrenches if you’re stuck and don’t want to take the crank off.

Sorry for Bezolink but this is the sort of thing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shimano-HollowTech-bottom-bracket-spanner/dp/B000NONYD8?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A32CWL50OXRGYH

Also interested as I have the same lamp!

I may have got the answer to this on another forum:

thats a really curious lamp the GX23 13W PL-S lamp was a US only size of lamp, originally the PL-S line up was 5W 7W 9W 11W, but the problem with the 11W one is its arc voltage was too high to be run effiecently on 120V mains (would of required complex and lossy autotransformer ballasts)

so a 13W PL-S lamp was developed which can be thought of as a high current version of the 9W PL-S lamp, now the 5W-11W PL-S lamps all and ran at roughly the same current and where designed to be interchangeable with each other

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but the 13W PL-S lamp on account of its higher lamp current was not interchangeable with any other lamp so was given a modified cap to stop the wrong lamp being installed
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note the double notches

as this 13W lamp was less efficient then the 11W PL lamp (they both where designed to target the same 850-900 lumens) it was never introduced, marketed or sold in any 220V-240V country

so I find it very curious that your handheld lamp claims to use these lamps! gawd knows where they expected you to get spare/replacement tubes from, 13W PL-S lamps just dont exist here!

I imagine such a portable light uses an inverter-electronic ballast, those generally are not compatible with LED retrofit tubes (and you would struggle to find a 13W PL-S type here in the UK anyhow)

so if your looking for an LED worklight, your best off just getting a whole new unit im afraid

This probably explains why I’ve struggled to even find a like-for-like replacement. I’ve had pretty good use out of this one though and it lasts a good 7+ hours on the 3AH batteries, so I shouldn’t feel too bad about replacing the whole thing when the tube dies.

Yes, that looks a lot like a 3/32” chain on a 1/8” sprocket.

I have this 15 year old 18V Makita work lamp. It has a CFL tube and I’d like to see if I can switch it to an LED equivalent, ideally for more lumens. The lamp type is shown on the label.

Q1) Can I just fit any GX23 LED equivalent, or do I need to match the voltage?
Q2) Any recommendations for somewhere that does LED lamps with decent quality light? I’m guessing the £7.50 eBay ones from China are going to be a waste of money.

It’s a constant battle with my Gaggia too. I don’t use the filling point on the top of my machine, I pull the water tank out and put about 2 days worth in, then rinse it out and repeat every other day. Even then, the inside of the water tank starts to feel a bit greasy after a few weeks and leave it any longer and I start to get globs of algae forming.

Regular cleaning is all you can do, but you can’t stop it completely. I always wanted to plumb my machine into the mains, but it’s the algae buildup that has put me off.

I think I’m going to shout that every time I see a local scumbag on a bike. To be clear, most of the locals I see on bikes look like scumbags. This could be fun!

Post them up here then, or at least links!

Blast from the past. This thread IS that green Cannondale!

That’s really sad. I don’t get to watch much telly any more, but the other night the current Hairy Bikers series was on and I thought he didn’t look too well. Then they started talking about his cancer and they both paused while trying to hold it together. Very emotional to watch.

Probably just for looks. Can’t think of any structural reason.

This is pretty spectacular!

https://youtu.be/9pEqyr_uT-k

Better than landfill, either way.

Henry for all the big shitty jobs* and a cordless Dyson for the carpets and stairs. You’ll be in vacuum cleaner utopia. Then just replace the Dyson battery every couple of years.

*I mean, we’ve been using it to suck up all the food and shite the kids chuck on the floor and it stank but the bag wasn’t full. I took it out the front and filled it up by hoovering up all the gravel, mud, bugs, moss, weeds and leaf debris that had accumulated in the porch over the winter. New bag and you’d never know. You really don’t have to look after them!

I'm full of hate for this and feel sorry for the original.

Lucky! My local tip won’t let you take the bikes. I’ve managed to talk them into letting me take one particularly rusty one recently, and once when I had some spanners in the car they let me take a sprung Brooks saddle, but generally it’s always a no when I ask.

Post hardcore at best.

Jungalist?

Smaller batteries can’t deliver the same power as a bigger battery can because they drop more voltage under load. Probably won’t notice on something like a drill, but you will notice with something thirsty like a grinder or circular saw.

I used to think this until I was forced to use IKEA in Milton Keynes. Fuck, I thought. But not only does the carpark walk you straight into the start point of the store, the shortcuts are marked on the map which take you to pretty much any point in the store or bypass everything and straight to the tills.

Croydon you definitely have to do the full 2km. You have no hope of shortcutting that one.

God Bateman you're such a bore.

With all due respect, that’s the other side of a busy dual carriageway.

Ding ding ding, RIP thread is ringing already.

Residents? It’s on a huge industrial estate!

King hell! I’ve never seen titanium being forged before. I didn’t appreciate how much of a pounding it needs!

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Tuning in a bit late for the ride report but glad it went well. Looks like it was a beast!