What Have You Fettled Today?
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Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Still awaiting delivery of the Mk2 SKS Raceblade Longs as the plastic clip on the rear guard of my original pair has broken. Meanwhile I've bodged a fitting by taking the mud flap off and putting a bolt through there to hold it to the brake bridge clip - essentially using it upside down and permanently fitted.
Citius
Guest
Just brought myself a brand new spanking rd bike. C Boardman to be precise. So I have been very busy with it last few days tweaking and perfecting everything
Does that include wrapping the bars in clingfilm?
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Not today but been waiting for the pc to upload photos...
Wifes hybrid, she's been asking to have her lights refitted, its been a while since she's used it in the dark, way over a year.. so
An Enix 14v Li-ion 4x 18650 pack mounted in the topbox.
Homebrew 2x Cree (I think) LEDs, probably 1watt each fitted with a Cateye bracket bonded to the housing..
Cables run from topbox/battery to the light..light now plugged into external charger..
nd remarkably, the battery pack has sat in a box for waaaay over a year and still had loads of power straight away...
Job done, she's happy.
Wifes hybrid, she's been asking to have her lights refitted, its been a while since she's used it in the dark, way over a year.. so
An Enix 14v Li-ion 4x 18650 pack mounted in the topbox.
Homebrew 2x Cree (I think) LEDs, probably 1watt each fitted with a Cateye bracket bonded to the housing..
Cables run from topbox/battery to the light..light now plugged into external charger..
nd remarkably, the battery pack has sat in a box for waaaay over a year and still had loads of power straight away...
Job done, she's happy.
themosquitoking
Guru
- Location
- Spain
New rim tape and valve fitted to my tubeless wheel, i was having a real problem getting it to inflate.
Psycolist
NINJA BYKALIST
- Location
- North Essex
With the amount of rain in the last 24 hours, I've just switched over to my Alberts in the hope of a few miles in the mire tomorrow, fingers crossed.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
My rear mud guard started to rub at the end of last week's ride so I removed it for the Wednesday night and today's fast rides as the roads were dry on Wednesday and in morning but quite a bit of rain fell this afternoon and tomorrow's a social ride so I refitted them and hopefully worked out what was rubbing so if it happens again, I can fix it on the ride.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
another (non-bike) day of muppet-worthy fettling but ultimately successful !
My very old, but rather good Mission amp working only on one speaker. After a bit of trouble shooting, decided one set of inputs were dodgy, so using another set all was well. After a bit more fiddling, with it running with board removed loose on my dining room table, managed to short something and the bloody thing wouldn't work at all ! Presumably had bust something on the input or pre-amp half.
None the wiser fiddling around trying to test transistors in situ (bearing in mind I don't really know what I'm doing).
Turn to ebay - looks like I can get another (the same) for a hundred quid or so, or what about these Quads and Naims?
After tea, tried one more thing, which it couldn't possibly be - the separate box booster power supply fuses (inside the box, not the plug I might add) - which it couldn't possibly be, and sure enough all works lovely again.
Luckily I'd not yet started bidding on fleabay !
My very old, but rather good Mission amp working only on one speaker. After a bit of trouble shooting, decided one set of inputs were dodgy, so using another set all was well. After a bit more fiddling, with it running with board removed loose on my dining room table, managed to short something and the bloody thing wouldn't work at all ! Presumably had bust something on the input or pre-amp half.
None the wiser fiddling around trying to test transistors in situ (bearing in mind I don't really know what I'm doing).
Turn to ebay - looks like I can get another (the same) for a hundred quid or so, or what about these Quads and Naims?
After tea, tried one more thing, which it couldn't possibly be - the separate box booster power supply fuses (inside the box, not the plug I might add) - which it couldn't possibly be, and sure enough all works lovely again.
Luckily I'd not yet started bidding on fleabay !
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Built a little stove for Esbit out of a small Altoids tin, a sink strainer, some hardware cloth, and a bit of aluminum flashing . As I cannot seem to get an Esbit stove around here, all of a sudden.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Put the new wheelset on he Boardman,man the freewheel is loud!
hedder2212
Senior Member
- Location
- Walsall
Cable tied the pannier bags onto the bike after some little twonker tried to nick them and got caught by me and a friend.
me - "alright mate what are you doing there then"
him - "none of your f*cking business"
me - "well it is because its my f*cking bike you twit"
action to teach the little sod a lesson may or may not have been taken...
Cable ties will take care of that never happening again
me - "alright mate what are you doing there then"
him - "none of your f*cking business"
me - "well it is because its my f*cking bike you twit"
action to teach the little sod a lesson may or may not have been taken...
Cable ties will take care of that never happening again
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Cable tied the pannier bags onto the bike after some little twonker tried to nick them and got caught by me and a friend.
me - "alright mate what are you doing there then"
him - "none of your f*cking business"
me - "well it is because its my f*cking bike you twit"
action to teach the little sod a lesson may or may not have been taken...
Cable ties will take care of that never happening again
hedder2212
Senior Member
- Location
- Walsall
I just poured water over the little sod... I might keep some just for that though
Elybazza61
Guru
Gave the Planet X a quick once-over before the working week;just a swab down,chain clean and gear shift check,plus an adjust on the pads.Also gave some squirts of ACF-50* on some of the more delicate parts to help against corrosion.
*It's this if anyone is wondering;
http://www.acf-50.co.uk/acf-50.htm
Used to use it on my long gone R1(motorcycle),really good stuff but like wd-40 don't get it on the tyres.
*It's this if anyone is wondering;
http://www.acf-50.co.uk/acf-50.htm
Used to use it on my long gone R1(motorcycle),really good stuff but like wd-40 don't get it on the tyres.
