Any question answered...

I used it everyday at work, if you need something to press the bearing in the shell, I used an old axles with big washer, press one bearing in at a time and work great, abet a little inconveniences.

If you don't have an old hub/wheel you can removed the axles from, you can make your own;

In other news the bearings from your mob arrived and are now installed. Would've taken 10min but rounded hex bolt required ALL the tools!

Why aren't hex bolts square, or triangle, in shape?

because then they wouldn't be hex bolts
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I used the existing QR skewer with the old bearings on it as spacers.
Tighten it up, clamp skewer.
Tighten it up, clamp skewer.
Tighten it up, clamp skewer.
Tighten it up, clamp skewer.
Eventually the bearings are seated. Really easy.

hex - hexagonal

Probably something to do with offering more surface for the tool to contact within the confines of a round bolt-end.

Same reason standard bolts (normally) have hexagonal heads - you can still turn them if you have a reduced range of movement. Hexagons are worse than squares for driving (nearer to a circle, more likely to round), it's why torx is better. You transfer the torque across faces that are closer to radial so the component that tries to round the hole (a radial force) is reduced.

I need help. I've lost the crown race for my c-record headset. How can I get a replacement? I just need something which will fit. It has 5/32 bearings, can I find one in a cheap headset which is similar?

The limited movement thing makes sense. Still a pain when they round off.

Replace them with torx then.

2012 10spd LH carbon Centaur brake lever has play at pivot and is rattly. Is this repairable or is it on way out?

A Thorn touring frame for no money but a cracked seat stay, worth it?

Because the Canadian inventor of square socket head screws wouldn't sell the patent to Ford, so Robertson screws are only common in Canada, while as an American, Allen had better access to capital and a larger market, and Torx wasn't invented until recently.

If it's just the seat stay, it may be cheaper to get it repaired and repainted than to buy a new Thorn frame.

That sound like a pretty good solution, will have a gander at work with an old Shimano QR.

Just to say I got the solar panel the other week and it's been charging my phone well while working at wfw sessions and stuff where I can leave it to one side.

Without me having to remove both wheels and sets of tyres too fairly measure them, can any say roughly which they think is lighter / by how much between the OTP wheels from CAAD12 105 and a set of hplusson archetypes on hope pro3s 32h (not sure what spokes...)

Direct link to the wheels says theyre 1880g

edit* some googling would suggest my hope/archetype wheels are ~1300 + spokes/nipples

can any say roughly which they think is lighter

I can say which I think is faster - Aksiums, by a pretty big margin.

Really?

(Lower spoke count, I can guess, but what other reasons? Both look to be pretty boxy low profile rims)

Lower spoke count is it. Unless you've got a clever rim profile, most of the stage difference is down to spokes.

Well i guess that is probably more useful information, thanks!

Does anyone know why the top of Silverthorne Rd. in Battersea is like a deeply rutted farm track strewn with aggregate? Always has been, but why?

Cement works at the bottom, when the trucks get to the top gravity does its business!

Of course! Wonder if they get fined by the council or TfL or whoever. It's the worst road surface in London.

They must have decided that, on aggregate, the cost of making sure it doesn't happen is more than the fines they'd get from the council.

Snapped a Boa lace on my Sworks shoes this morning - does anywhere in central London stock replacements?