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Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5700 on: 09 December, 2021, 12:26:44 pm »
I'm guessing that this is the video that T42 saw:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qseRtY5eX94

The grips that it seems to work really well on look like Ourys which are very soft rubber.  I don't have a compressor but do have a can of IPA so I just use that to fit my Ourys and wait a while for it to evaporate off.  They go on easily and stay put but getting them off again would undoubtedly be easier with a compressor.

For getting them off (assuming you're not just cutting them off because the grips are knackered) you can weasel the straw of a can of IPA or WD40 or similar under the grip, and work the lubricant along by massaging the grip until it just slides off.  Grip and bars will then need cleaning if you've used something oily.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5701 on: 09 December, 2021, 02:42:24 pm »
I'm guessing that this is the video that T42 saw:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qseRtY5eX94

The grips that it seems to work really well on look like Ourys which are very soft rubber.  I don't have a compressor but do have a can of IPA so I just use that to fit my Ourys and wait a while for it to evaporate off.  They go on easily and stay put but getting them off again would undoubtedly be easier with a compressor.

The one I saw was part of a much longer video about converting an old Lemond into a "street bike" (duh?) but that was the technique.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5702 on: 09 December, 2021, 02:54:14 pm »
That the Dutch "Stop de kindermoord" demonstrations of the 1970s were in part inspired by similar demonstrations to allow children to play in the streets in America in the 1950s.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-08/the-hidden-history-of-american-anti-car-protests
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5703 on: 09 December, 2021, 04:22:42 pm »
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... but do have a can of IPA so I just use that to fit my Ourys and wait a while for it to evaporate...
Evaporate?  Waste of good beer. :)
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5704 on: 09 December, 2021, 05:30:26 pm »
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... but do have a can of IPA so I just use that to fit my Ourys and wait a while for it to evaporate...
Evaporate?  Waste of good beer. :)

Unless it's Greene King IPA.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5705 on: 09 December, 2021, 06:19:43 pm »
There's two sorts of IPA: The stuff for stopping Brompton seatposts slipping and the stuff for lubricating handlebar grips.  It's important not to mix them up.

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« Reply #5706 on: 09 December, 2021, 06:43:44 pm »
If it were the only choice, I'd rather drink propan-2-ol than Greene King IPA. I can't imagine this makes me unique among the people who have tried Greene King IPA.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5707 on: 09 December, 2021, 06:43:59 pm »
I'm guessing that this is the video that T42 saw:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qseRtY5eX94

The grips that it seems to work really well on look like Ourys which are very soft rubber.  I don't have a compressor but do have a can of IPA so I just use that to fit my Ourys and wait a while for it to evaporate off.  They go on easily and stay put but getting them off again would undoubtedly be easier with a compressor.

For getting them off (assuming you're not just cutting them off because the grips are knackered) you can weasel the straw of a can of IPA or WD40 or similar under the grip, and work the lubricant along by massaging the grip until it just slides off.  Grip and bars will then need cleaning if you've used something oily.

I find a thin bladed screwdriver works very well as well
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Mr Larrington

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« Reply #5708 on: 10 December, 2021, 01:04:00 am »
Today I are learn that Ewan MacColl was born James Henry Miller, and was once married to Joan Littlewood.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5709 on: 10 December, 2021, 02:11:39 am »
If it were the only choice, I'd rather drink propan-2-ol than Greene King IPA. I can't imagine this makes me unique among the people who have tried Greene King IPA.

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« Reply #5710 on: 10 December, 2021, 07:50:03 am »
That from 1967 to 2002, the Cadillac Eldorado was front-wheel drive, including the 8.2l V8 versions  :o
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« Reply #5711 on: 10 December, 2021, 07:55:23 am »
That in order to watch my recording of last night's Question Time completely unmolested I have to get up at 5am

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« Reply #5712 on: 10 December, 2021, 11:11:42 am »
That from 1967 to 2002, the Cadillac Eldorado was front-wheel drive, including the 8.2l V8 versions  :o

Preceded by the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado of similar heft.  Apparently the FWD system worked well and there was no torque steer in spite of having a big-block V8 supplying the torques, but the same could not be said of the (drum) brakes, which came with The Book of Common Prayer as standard.  The oily bits also did service in the GMC motorhome.
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« Reply #5713 on: 10 December, 2021, 03:31:57 pm »
I was at Rover (the original company) when the Toronado appeared, and we had one for evaluation. I can confirm that the brakes were totally useless after one full application from 70mph. Useful as hand warmers on a cold day.

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« Reply #5714 on: 10 December, 2021, 06:00:07 pm »
I learned this today, and it made me larf:

Boris Johnson has an ethics adviser

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« Reply #5715 on: 10 December, 2021, 06:25:45 pm »
I learned this today, and it made me larf:

Boris Johnson has an ethics adviser

WTAF does he do all day ???
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« Reply #5716 on: 10 December, 2021, 06:59:28 pm »
That from 1967 to 2002, the Cadillac Eldorado was front-wheel drive, including the 8.2l V8 versions  :o

Preceded by the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado of similar heft.  Apparently the FWD system worked well and there was no torque steer in spite of having a big-block V8 supplying the torques, but the same could not be said of the (drum) brakes, which came with The Book of Common Prayer as standard.  The oily bits also did service in the GMC motorhome.
Torque-steer is almost unheard of with equal length drive shafts. The FWD system on those cars had a longitudinal engine, with the power coming out of the back, and drive shaft off to the left. The differential would have been well to the left, but the right-hand drive shaft would have to supported as it went across from left to right of the engine, with a CV joint on the right of the engine. A single long drive shaft wouldn't have had the clearance to give suspension travel. It's the long right-hand driveshaft from a left-mounted differential on transverse engine FWD cars that leads to torque steer.

The arrangement is much like the FWD part of a lot of modern 4WD systems with independent suspension.

It may have been a car like the Cadillac that led to a story I heard in the late 1970s.

Someone in England had bought a big American car, with power steering, auto box, power windows and power seats etc. when stuff like that was virtually unheard of in the UK. He enjoyed driving it around for about a week until he came to one of the old railway bridges that was only wide enough for one car, with a Mini coming the other way. Both drivers stood on the brakes, but while the Mini just stopped, the American car sailed on at virtually the same speed, with bad swears from the Mini driver following it, and a collision was avoided.

The owner of the got it home, jacked it up, took off a wheel and found a brake drum around the same size as one that would have been inside the 10" wheels of the Mini.

It was a month or two later before he dared to venture out in it again. By that time he had gone to a scrap heap, salvaged the entire braking system, from pedal to drums, from a van of a similar weight, and fitted the whole lot to the American car.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5717 on: 10 December, 2021, 07:11:34 pm »
That from 1967 to 2002, the Cadillac Eldorado was front-wheel drive, including the 8.2l V8 versions  :o

Preceded by the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado of similar heft.  Apparently the FWD system worked well and there was no torque steer in spite of having a big-block V8 supplying the torques, but the same could not be said of the (drum) brakes, which came with The Book of Common Prayer as standard.  The oily bits also did service in the GMC motorhome.
Torque-steer is almost unheard of with equal length drive shafts. The FWD system on those cars had a longitudinal engine, with the power coming out of the back, and drive shaft off to the left. The differential would have been well to the left, but the right-hand drive shaft would have to supported as it went across from left to right of the engine, with a CV joint on the right of the engine. A single long drive shaft wouldn't have had the clearance to give suspension travel. It's the long right-hand driveshaft from a left-mounted differential on transverse engine FWD cars that leads to torque steer.

The arrangement is much like the FWD part of a lot of modern 4WD systems with independent suspension.

There was a heavy-duty chain involved too, between the torque converter and the actual gears.
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« Reply #5718 on: 10 December, 2021, 07:24:46 pm »
That from 1967 to 2002, the Cadillac Eldorado was front-wheel drive, including the 8.2l V8 versions  :o

Preceded by the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado of similar heft.  Apparently the FWD system worked well and there was no torque steer in spite of having a big-block V8 supplying the torques, but the same could not be said of the (drum) brakes, which came with The Book of Common Prayer as standard.  The oily bits also did service in the GMC motorhome.
Torque-steer is almost unheard of with equal length drive shafts. The FWD system on those cars had a longitudinal engine, with the power coming out of the back, and drive shaft off to the left. The differential would have been well to the left, but the right-hand drive shaft would have to supported as it went across from left to right of the engine, with a CV joint on the right of the engine. A single long drive shaft wouldn't have had the clearance to give suspension travel. It's the long right-hand driveshaft from a left-mounted differential on transverse engine FWD cars that leads to torque steer.

The arrangement is much like the FWD part of a lot of modern 4WD systems with independent suspension.

There was a heavy-duty chain involved too, between the torque converter and the actual gears.
I saw that on the photo in Wikipedia. It reminded me of the transfer chain that's in a lot of 4WD systems with longitudinal engines.
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« Reply #5719 on: 12 December, 2021, 04:39:10 pm »
That EasyToys has nothing to do with EasyJet or any other EasyBrand, but rather it’s a Dutch online shop for sex toys (and sponsor of a Dutch curling competition).
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« Reply #5720 on: 12 December, 2021, 04:47:15 pm »
That EasyToys has nothing to do with EasyJet or any other EasyBrand, but rather it’s a Dutch online shop for sex toys (and sponsor of a Dutch curling competition).

Is Dutch curling a euphemism?

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« Reply #5721 on: 12 December, 2021, 05:05:47 pm »
It does sound like one of those things on the "specialist menu" that sound interesting to try, but turn out to be a bit shit.

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« Reply #5722 on: 13 December, 2021, 03:46:23 pm »
Today I are learn that Arthur “God of Hellfire” Brown is not, as I had previously thought, dead.
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« Reply #5723 on: 13 December, 2021, 05:55:41 pm »
that circa 1900 the makers of Amiral Soap claimed that use of their product could dissolve fat. Eight bob sounds a bit steep to me.



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« Reply #5724 on: 13 December, 2021, 06:06:17 pm »
Adverts from the days before not-blatantly-lying-in-adverts legislation are hilarious.  Especially after people had discovered industrial chemistry, but not health & safety.