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mdcc_tester in reply to @MultiGrooves

Could someone bore this out for me?
I know a man who could, but it's a simple job which anybody with a milling machine equipped with a boring head (or a lathe with a 4-jay chuck and a boring bar) can do.

Hey MD, I'm getting no love on this front. How can we go about your man that can?

Does anyone have (preferably just the drive side of ) an SR Apex, 170mm , 144bcd crank for sale in a spares box or something similar?

How can we go about your man that can?

I'll send him a message and see if he want's to do it.

Thanks

I've a disc rim with a bulge both ways around the seam. This is a mountain bike rim which has covered 30,000km with 35mm marathon's at 60psi. fubared?

Axle doesn't fit in fork. What do I do?
-attack axle with file?
-attack fork with file?
-swap axle
-sack off cheap wheel for a road front wheel

Trying to keep spends low

File a couple of flats on the axle.

I've had a cheap wheel like that. Don't ruin your forks, as above, file a flat either side of the axle, the width of the fork ends. Or get a cheap front road wheel.

Put a (possibly sacrificial) nut beyond the proposed flat before filing. Remove after filing to re-form distorted threads and burrs. Don't forget to replace the nut before filing a bit more off...

Edit - sorry - should have been a reply to alialias

Is riding without a helmet a roadie trend at the mo?

Seems that way. Next up will be the old leather strap helmets. You heard it here first (and probably last)...

i was looking at paint porn and saw this seat clamp position...is this an approved thing?

this an approved thing?

It's classic NAHBS-wank (a thing which can happen even if it never goes to NAHBS), just a novelty feature put there to make people post it to teh internetz

Cheers all! Job for the night then.

the more i look at it the more i dislike it, is messy
i am in the process of building (brazing) a frame and for now i was just going to get a seat coller but i think in the end i will go for the fastback style... or maybe not... frame will be triple triangle asymmetric... have to try to keep it as clean as possible

If you don't have a decent metal file go and buy one now or you'll have a horrible time.

It's that time of the year again where we have to drive up from Dorset to North Yorks. With 2 young children. We wanna split the journey into 4 and avoid service stations - Is there a site which has some kind of list of pub gardens with kids play areas?

https://www.mumsnet.com/things-to-do/family-friendly-pubs-cafes-restaurants

Might help, no experience of it myself.

Does anyone know if you can buy records as soon as Rough Trade East opens at 9, or is it just the café?

Which is the best paint marker for obscuring logos engraved/laser etched on black components?

Are Power Torque cranks that much worse than UT for installation / removal? I need to downgrade from 175 to 170mm and the price difference / availability is appealing. Looking at you @mdcc_tester...

Have Binatone radio alarm clock from about 30 yrs ago. Still going strong but a button has broken. Anyone know of a person who could repair it - with TV repair shops gone are do people still do this? (It has the best alarm ever - I can sleep through my phone one but not this).

This model: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/172602381875?clk_rvr_id=1192878683244&rmvSB=true (I know I could buy a 'new' one for less but sentimental reasons..)

Yes. UT can be removed with standard tools that most cyclists own, for PT removal you need a bearing puller (and it might even be a proprietary bearing puller).

I have a bearing puller, to change UT bearings. Are the BB cups the same?

Installation is no problem, as andyp says it is removal that's the problem.

There are now specific bearing puller kits for PT though.

There is "Power Torque +" which doesn't need a puller, but it was only introduced with Potenza so you won't be saving any money over UT.

A quick search shows the cheapest PT are around £60 new and you can get NOS UT from eBay for similar.