Author Topic: What have you fettled today? (Read 2194280 times)

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #8925 on:** 05 March, 2014, 07:33:47 pm »

More Harry Quinning. I fitted the bars and brakes. Relatively straightforward until I found that the front brake cable outer I had threaded through the bars was an inch too short, no matter how much I tried to get it to fit. Cue much cursing before I cut a new length and fitted that. The (white) bar tap needs a bit of TLC now, but all is in situ. I was tempted to put the wheels on to try how it rolls, but it was getting dark by then AND there aren't any tyres fitted!

Polar Bear · « **Reply #8926 on:** 05 March, 2014, 07:45:29 pm »

Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 04 March, 2014, 06:03:05 pm

... Some percussive persuasion got the cups into place ...

For future reference, I have a headset press.

Kim · « **Reply #8927 on:** 05 March, 2014, 08:00:39 pm »

Quote from: Polar Bear on 05 March, 2014, 07:45:29 pm

Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 04 March, 2014, 06:03:05 pm
... Some percussive persuasion got the cups into place ...

For future reference, I have a headset press.

As, indeed, do I.

David Martin · « **Reply #8928 on:** 05 March, 2014, 11:38:32 pm »

I don't, but a carpenters cramps work well for setting a headset bearing.
And with a little more care and delicacy, so does a 2kg lump hammer moved with appropriate precision and care.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #8929 on:** 06 March, 2014, 02:32:48 pm »

Quote from: Polar Bear on 05 March, 2014, 07:45:29 pm

Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 04 March, 2014, 06:03:05 pm
... Some percussive persuasion got the cups into place ...

For future reference, I have a headset press.

Where's the fun in that?

Thanks for the offers.

reddo · « **Reply #8930 on:** 06 March, 2014, 03:10:57 pm »

Ah yes, a technical tap with a precision hammer.

David Martin · « **Reply #8931 on:** 06 March, 2014, 11:48:29 pm »

Spent two hours wrangling a laser cutter to no productive effect. However it was a useful learning experience. The smell in my office afterwards of burned plastic was not most pleasant.

Kim · « **Reply #8932 on:** 07 March, 2014, 12:05:50 am »

Fitted card readers to a couple of PCs (with associated fan cleaning) and botched up barakta's dungarees with some botch wire.

jogler · « **Reply #8933 on:** 07 March, 2014, 06:59:27 pm »

Fitted a Cateye wireless computer to the tandem.

It worked only intermittently

mcshroom · « **Reply #8934 on:** 08 March, 2014, 12:01:33 am »

Fitted a new brake cable to the front of the Horizon to replace the rather old original and retensioned the chain on the Trek District in case I decide to take that one audaxing tomorrow.

The new cable fitting took forever as I'm not used to setting up straddle wires properly and it seems to be a job designed for about 4 hands.

Oh, also gave both bikes a bit of a clean with some wet wipes

David Martin · « **Reply #8935 on:** 08 March, 2014, 01:40:16 am »

New winter bike assembled. Test run in the morning.

T42 · « **Reply #8936 on:** 08 March, 2014, 03:39:05 pm »

Cleaned my bike!

This is a sure sign of:

(a) Second Coming
(b) End of World
(c) brain tumour
(d) senility.

(Students should select one or more or possibly fewer option(s) and correct the grammar.)

interzen · « **Reply #8937 on:** 08 March, 2014, 03:46:33 pm »

Lights.

Picked up a couple of Supernova lights (tail light for the Fortitude fixed, E3 Pro2 for the Croix de Fer) and an eWerk dynamo cable from the LBS a couple of days ago. Fitting the light to the Croix de Fer was relatively straightforward, but fitting the tail light on the Fortitude required some soldering and heatshrink - routing the tail light cable along the rear brake hose turned out to be surprisingly neat.

Either way, jobs done - I now have an off-road capable dynamo powered lighting/charging system on the Fortitude, a semi bad-ass headlight (and optional GPS charging capability) on the Croix de Fer and absolutely no solder-related burns.

There will be a Sugru hack on the Croix's dynamo connector at some point in order to make sure that water etc. stays out.

zigzag · « **Reply #8938 on:** 08 March, 2014, 04:52:45 pm »

lowered handlebars by 2.5cm/1" by flipping the stem

Phil W · « **Reply #8939 on:** 08 March, 2014, 06:09:08 pm »

I've built my first rear wheel and installed a 28mm tubeless tyre setup. Will be test riding tomorrow.

Kim · « **Reply #8940 on:** 09 March, 2014, 12:50:47 am »

After getting intimate with some of the finer points of NTP yesterday, I've spent the last few hours writing code to drive a 7-segment LED display. It's been a while since I've fettled one of those, but it's a vital aspect of the "1980s mission control"^[1] aesthetic I'm going for with barakta's new alarm clock. (Needless to say, it will also feature a large red 'abort' button.) Freakishly, it worked first time.

_{[1] Nixie tubes were vetoed, and screens are boring.}

T42 · « **Reply #8941 on:** 09 March, 2014, 08:32:18 am »

Quote from: David Martin on 08 March, 2014, 01:40:16 am

New winter bike assembled. Test run in the morning.

Pics?

David Martin · « **Reply #8942 on:** 09 March, 2014, 09:20:35 am »

It was raining and there was too much else to do. Maybe today.

MattH · « **Reply #8943 on:** 09 March, 2014, 10:27:58 am »

Quote from: Kim on 09 March, 2014, 12:50:47 am

After getting intimate with some of the finer points of NTP yesterday, I've spent the last few hours writing code to drive a 7-segment LED display. It's been a while since I've fettled one of those, but it's a vital aspect of the "1980s mission control"^[1] aesthetic I'm going for with barakta's new alarm clock. (Needless to say, it will also feature a large red 'abort' button.) Freakishly, it worked first time.

_{[1] Nixie tubes were vetoed, and screens are boring.}

Banned from using Nixie tubes? I trust divorce proceedings are now underway, unreasonable behaviour and all that. Barakta has always seemed like such a nice girl too

Kim · « **Reply #8944 on:** 09 March, 2014, 12:16:23 pm »

Quote from: MattH on 09 March, 2014, 10:27:58 am

Banned from using Nixie tubes? I trust divorce proceedings are now underway, unreasonable behaviour and all that. Barakta has always seemed like such a nice girl too

To be fair, the ban was specific to her bedside clock. I can have as many Nixies as I like somewhere else (with the disclaimer that I shouldn't start any more projects until I've finished this one).

jogler · « **Reply #8945 on:** 09 March, 2014, 02:11:28 pm »

I've fettled more fence into a vertical arrangement & fettled the garden furniture out of hibernation onto the patio & under the gazebo

interzen · « **Reply #8946 on:** 09 March, 2014, 02:15:12 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 09 March, 2014, 12:16:23 pm

Quote from: MattH on 09 March, 2014, 10:27:58 am
Banned from using Nixie tubes? I trust divorce proceedings are now underway, unreasonable behaviour and all that. Barakta has always seemed like such a nice girl too

To be fair, the ban was specific to her bedside clock. I can have as many Nixies as I like somewhere else (with the disclaimer that I shouldn't start any more projects until I've finished this one).

Nixie tubes - if there were such a thing as a hipster component, they'd be it.

Never seen the attraction myself, but then I'm a sucker for OLED screens.

Phil W · « **Reply #8947 on:** 09 March, 2014, 04:47:20 pm »

Cleaned the bike after a shorts and tshirt ride if that counts

David Martin · « **Reply #8948 on:** 09 March, 2014, 07:38:14 pm »

decided that Campag Xenon is cheese that isn't supposed to do more than decorate low end bikes. Broke the shift lever and now the rear mech is somewhat ambiguous about gear changes. Time to search out a decent upgrade.

Wobbly John · « **Reply #8949 on:** 09 March, 2014, 08:05:12 pm »

With daughter & son-in-law, o.ver the weekend:

Cut a 150mm wide x 4 metre slot through a 150mm thick concrete slab (9" diamond angle grinder & impact drill FTW) to lay a drainage channel.
Concreted in the plastic (with metal cover) drain channel
Dug soak away and 5 metre pipe trench, filled them and re-covered.
Layed a dozen sq metres of slabs.
Used the 2 m³ of soil from soak-away & trench to start consructing a sloped path instead of a random-height-stepped one.
Dug out 4 large bushes.

i.e. We worked bloody hard and are now knackered.

Author Topic: What have you fettled today? (Read 2194280 times)

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