How I cooked my bike

[Pancho]

Dear torslanda,

please keep science out of cycling,

Pancho.

[padbeat]

I seem to remember Alum had special properties relating to radiation contamination also but could be forgetful.

This seems to be the thing you're referring to, but it's way beyond my medical skill level!

It also makes a handy deodourant and a shaving preparation and local coagulant. Is there nothing it can't do?

[Oaky]

It was certainly pretty good at puckering up the lips of cartoon characters when I was a bairn, so that's one more thing to add to it's list of super powers.

[David Martin]

It also took the piss out of Newcastle. Quite literally as it was shipped by the bargeload up to Ravenscar to  process the shale into Alum.

[Canardly]

Hence the phrase 'taking the piss'

[LEE]

Hmmm. Just in case.

Would this work on a Ti frame ?

I'm not a chemist, but my understanding is that it reacts with stuff that has Fe in it. - on which basis, your Ti frame with a bit of vanadium and ally in it should be ok.

I expect anyone about to dip their Ti frame in a pan of hot dissolvy stuff wants a reply without the phrase "should be OK" in it.

Interesting thread though.  Almost the exact opposite of my stuck (Alloy seat post in Steel Frame) seat-post thread

http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=36893.0

So now we can get Alloy out of Steel and Steel out of Alloy.

[Jurek]

I deliberately went for the understatement option 

[Rhys W]

I hope this thread will become legendary, in future years cyclists from all corners of the internet who have steel bolts stuck in aluminium frames will be directed here via google to read about how zigzag cooked his bike in the kitchen and got away with it.

[mcshroom]

Only if zigzag doesn't decide to delete the thread (perhaps he may want to destroy the evidence)

[Paul]

It was certainly pretty good at puckering up the lips of cartoon characters when I was a bairn, so that's one more thing to add to it's list of super powers.

Not to mention Stan and Ollie (Tit for Tat, I think).

[zigzag]

showed her the photo, she found it funny and amusing. then i was asked to email her the photo, which found it's way on her fb wall with caption "this is what happens in my kitchen when i'm out.."

[Paul]

It also took the piss out of Newcastle. Quite literally as it was shipped by the bargeload up to Ravenscar to  process the shale into Alum.

And the barges that took the piss out of Newcastle also, presumably, brought the coals there?

[Paul]

This is just audacious. I've pulled some stuff (in the kitchen, in the dining room, even in the bedroom), but this demonstrates real Mission Impossible balls.

Chapeau.

[Jurek]

showed her the photo, she found it funny and amusing. then i was asked to email her the photo, which found it's way on her fb wall with caption "this is what happens in my kitchen when i'm out.."

Tops.
As it should be

[zigzag]

one of her (girl)friends thought it's a robot that does the cooking..

[Jurek]

one of her (girl)friends thought it's a robot that does the cooking..

Lovely 

[clarion]

I was thinking I'd like my bike to do the cooking.

Then I considered what they might cook.

[zigzag]

another comment "Is that some sort of sexy time contraption "

now there's some thinking outside the box

[clarion]

The speed you ride, you probably warp the space-time continuum.

[barakta]

Awesome!  I would be annoyed if Kim did that in our house without me - I mean c'mon it's like SCIENCE!

I still haven't forgiven her for removing the sharkbite stitches herself when I wasn't around...

[zigzag]

The speed you ride, you probably warp the space-time continuum.

thanks, but i suspect there was a different train of thought

I still haven't forgiven her for removing the sharkbite stitches herself when I wasn't around...

^^ oh, that would definitely be an offense! (in her books)

[Redjeep!]

Fantastic.

'Dear Religion.

Today I helped a man to repair his damaged bicycle frame.

Recently, you remember, I helped a man to ascend in a balloon to the edge of space and allow him to parachute safely back to earth.

You are still making people learn things by rote to the exclusion of everything else that is stimulating, positive or even useful, besides teaching them that what they read is the absolute truth - even though we ALL know that it is not - and shooting people who want to question you.

DKUATB. Later.

Science.'

"Dear Science,

Thanks for providing men with ever more efficient ways of killing each other IN THE NAME OF RELIGION.

Later.

Religion"

 

There you go. Fixed the bit you missed out....

[Andrij]