Author Topic: What have you done today (Read 116429 times)

2112 · « **Reply #300 on:** March 12, 2024, 09:31:16 »

Today we've loaded the car up and are off to Harrogate for a mid-week break and some wine tasting. We have a visit at Dunesford Vinyard booked and then a tasting at a boutique wine shop in Harrogate. Happy days

MilozFolly · « **Reply #301 on:** March 12, 2024, 10:11:25 »

This morning I sanded down the majority of my forks with a view to respraying as they're a mess. I then utterly failed to remove the rear to bolts from the mudguard. The square washers are just spinning in their wells and I can't get them off. Currently considering just masking it all off and trying to spray the forks in situ. Bloody thread lock............

Ianmc · « **Reply #302 on:** March 12, 2024, 12:15:46 »

I think you will find they are rusted in rather than threadlocked,don’t forget your bike is about 11years old this year.I had a few problems with my L2 when I stripped the forks out to fit fork gaiters,and ended up drilling the thread out of the square nuts,then soldering new nuts onto the square nuts and then you can get a spanner onto them next time they are removed.Plus I used a copperslip type anti-seize grease on them when re-assembling.

BrunoDog · « **Reply #303 on:** March 15, 2024, 19:52:36 »

I had a short ride out north of Newbury. I was given as a present maybe 15 years ago a ring-binder of “AA 1001 Country Walks” and it has sat on the shelf until last year when I thought I’d make a start. Now up to 117, so 884 to go, but if I do 100 a year I’ll finish in 2032???

2112 · « **Reply #304 on:** March 16, 2024, 08:45:17 »

Just my luck, I picked up a 24 hr bug and have been on the pot passing fizzy gravy for most of yesterday! After a very hot/cold/hot night I seem to have sweated it out of my system. Not having much luck with these things at the moment...

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #305 on:** March 16, 2024, 13:55:41 »

You could use a "ring binder" yourself, by the sound of it.

The Doctor 46 · « **Reply #306 on:** March 16, 2024, 17:26:33 »

Yesterday I bought a £1 scratch card. Today I saw that I have won!

£2.

kwackboy · « **Reply #307 on:** March 17, 2024, 21:41:14 »

Finished a little project today, a coffee table, made out of old scaffold boards left over from another bigger decking project. I don't like waste ...

Not quite finished yet , it needs a final sanding, white washing and varnishing.
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Joe Rocket · « **Reply #308 on:** March 17, 2024, 22:10:40 »

Looks good, nicely chamfered ahd sculpted near the joints. I assume it's glued too?

Edit: I play with my router a lot for similar jobs. You have one or a bench set up?

kwackboy · « **Reply #309 on:** March 17, 2024, 22:33:15 »

Cheers ...
I've got a couple of routers, I'm not skilled enough to do it any other way...

Yes , it's glued with wooded dowels, I've been learning joinery and quit like the idea of making items without the screws or nails.

nigel s · « **Reply #310 on:** March 18, 2024, 04:42:17 »

Nicely done Kwackboy,
Money to be made at that game,some of the stuff on ebay goes for silly money( some of our joiners make good on the side cash there

), if you decide to cut back on bike fixing

2112 · « **Reply #311 on:** March 18, 2024, 13:19:23 »

Today, I took my car for it's third annual service and it's first MOT. I am pleased to say it passed with no advisories (as it should do) and all is well. All for a very reasonable £130 and an extra years 'free' breakdown cover with the AA thrown in. Happy

Barbel Mick · « **Reply #312 on:** March 21, 2024, 19:31:05 »

Deb & myself have been over on the East coast (Suffolk) for a few days & knowing one of our members lives not too far away, we arranged to meet for breakfast today.
Cracking little cafe & an equally cracking little breakfast. ☺️
Cheers Brocket, great to see you & your mates for a catch up.
Steve & Pep seem like old mates now. 🙂

Brockett · « **Reply #313 on:** March 21, 2024, 20:20:50 »

So very nice to see you both again.

Barbel Mick · « **Reply #314 on:** April 04, 2024, 18:17:58 »

Easter holidays means a few days looking after the grandkids, or is it them looking after me?

Yesterday, after Oxygen, a Trampoline & play centre, we made a visit to Great Northern Classics. https://www.greatnorthernclassics.co.uk/ A new venture just opened in Derby. I thought it was a museum but it's more of a workshop for classis vehicles. There were half a dozen or so cars & a few motorcycles on display though.
Today, after Ten Pin Bowling we made a visit to The Museum of Making in Derby. That was excellent & a couple more motorcycles spotted. We couldn't stay long enough to 'do' the whole thing as we had to have one of the kids home for Gymnastics.
A good couple of days, the grandkids enjoyed the trampolining & bowling & grandad enjoyed the motorcycles.

The last three photos are from the Museum of Making. The exhibition is to do with the City of Derby.

Barbel Mick · « **Reply #315 on:** April 04, 2024, 18:24:58 »

For some reason I was unable to download any photos on the original post, not even one.

Barbel Mick · « **Reply #316 on:** April 04, 2024, 18:31:19 »

This is odd?

Barbel Mick · « **Reply #317 on:** April 04, 2024, 18:33:00 »

Barbel Mick · « **Reply #318 on:** April 04, 2024, 18:33:38 »

Barbel Mick · « **Reply #319 on:** April 04, 2024, 18:40:13 »

Got there with the photos in the end but I'm not sure what happened. The first 3 times trying it just kept saying failed. Tried reducing the photos & putting fewer in each post, still no good. Then when I do manage to get some up in separate posts, those that wouldn't show in the first post suddenly appear.

Maybe it was me after two days with the grandkids!!