What have you fettled today?

[phantasmagoriana]

For some reason Mrs O decided to iron something on the bedroom floor. The iron fell over. The carpet is red, artificial fibre (gave up on wool carpets after feeding too many moths), resulting in a dark grey, iron-shaped patch.

My partner did the same to a fairly new (also red, also synthetic because the previous wool carpet had succumbed to the moths) carpet in our last place. We didn't have spare carpet, but CBA to get a new one and just lived with it for a few years.

I had a similar incident many years ago involving a beige carpet in a rental flat whilst attempting to fix a clarinet with a hairdryer. That resulted in a hefty deposit reduction...

[Pingu]

...fix a clarinet with a hairdryer...

A common turn of phrase in the Central Belt.

[Tim Hall]

...fix a clarinet with a hairdryer...

A common turn of phrase in the Central Belt.

In Barnsley they speak of little else.

[robgul]

For some reason Mrs O decided to iron something on the bedroom floor. The iron fell over. The carpet is red, artificial fibre (gave up on wool carpets after feeding too many moths), resulting in a dark grey, iron-shaped patch.

My partner did the same to a fairly new (also red, also synthetic because the previous wool carpet had succumbed to the moths) carpet in our last place. We didn't have spare carpet, but CBA to get a new one and just lived with it for a few years.

I had a similar incident many years ago involving a beige carpet in a rental flat whilst attempting to fix a clarinet with a hairdryer. That resulted in a hefty deposit reduction...

We have a couple of rentals and the "ironing on the floor" issue is frequent - despite providing an ironing board (only) in a let unfurnished property.  Deposit retention only just about covers carpet replacement.

[rogerzilla]

Two things:

1. Stripped and cleaned a NOS Shimano type D coaster hub which turned out to have a rusty LH ball race.  Must have been in storage for decades.  The balls and cages are toast but the races aren't too far gone and wlll run in to be smooth.

2. A s/h replacement boiler for the big steam engine (Mamod SE3) came this week, so I fitted valves and plugs to it and steamed it as a test.  It's all fine and, moreover, the regulator valve I desoldered yesterday doesn't leak.

[rafletcher]

Swapped the winter steely onto the smart trainer, having taken the fair weather soot bike off it. Renewed the cadence and speed sensor batteries on it and the not-so-fair weather Domane.

[T42]

Found the origin of the eCow's chain-slip problems: middle chainring worn.   Fair enough: that chainset has about 33,000 km on it, mostly on the middle ring.  New one ordered, eCow laid up until it gets here.