Power Meters / Powermeters (SRM, Powertap, Quarq, Ergomo, Vector, Stages, power2max, P2M, 4iii, InPower, Cinch)

Could you use a medium-sized g-clamp? Bit easier to get hold of but don't want to suggest this kind of thing for a job I've never had to tackle.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/forge-steel-g-clamp-150mm/6624c

Maybe tightening forces will be enough to get it in? Try installing it up at a different spider hole.

Is this something I can bodge at home

It's your excuse to invest in a vice. I paid a fiver for a crappy Chinese vice very much like this more than 30 years ago and it's still going strong.

I very much wish I lived somewhere that I could mount or even keep a vice

You exist in a land without tables?

Buy one of these and fix a vice to it?
http://www.diy.com/departments/black-decker-foldable-vice-jaw-clamp-workbench-w610mm/31976_BQ.prd

I’m jusg going to do it in work, where I do have a vice. Just means a long and boring walk to work with a bike tomorrow

I had one of those but there's fuck all to clamp it to in my place. Kitchen bench didn't work and the coffee table needed someone else holding it while I undid stuff. Gave it away in the end. Now I need a vice and it's getting annoying driving to Scherrit's just to use a proper bench vice. Hmm... Maybe I can get a bigger one that will clamp to the bench seat outside.

London.

You ever tried to use Ikea furniture as a base for a clamp?

I need a vice to put in a freewheel tool so I can use the rim as the lever to spin off a stuck singlespeed freewheel. Those B&D benches are useless unless you can bolt them to the ground and even then they flex a lot with the forces needed. I want a proper workbench somewhere.

Those B&D benches are useless unless

I know, just failing to be helpful again.

I want a proper workbench somewhere

:-(
I have one, a big old timber bu**er I bought 25-odd years ago complete with a wood-worker's vice and I fixed a big old Record to the top of it. One of the best things I ever spend £30 on. Heirloom.
Sorry.

I've been able to remove freewheels by:

1. Securing the tool in place with a bolt/qr
   
2. Bracing the wheel against a wall
   
3. Putting a ring spanner over the freewheel tool
   
4. Twatting the end of the spanner with a hammer until the freewheel loosens.
   
   

I think the sharper impacts of the hammer actually releases the freewheel quicker than the vice/busdriver method.

Other than the putting it near a wall bit that's exactly what I've been doing. Plus hosed the fucker down with some spray lube stuff and let it soak. It's not budging.

I always succeed with a vice. Everything in my world is better when there's a large solid lump of steel to hit things against :)

Have you tried the "Glasgow bounce"?

No, it doesn't have a tyre on it.

Might try chain whip + spanner + my huge weight leaning on it next.

Quarq ready for cx duty, just waiting for the bike now..

Did have slight buyers remorse when these first arrived but they have been flawless and he ability to run a 55t chainring for tt, 52x36 for road and now 40t for cx on one chainset is quite satisfying!

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Online retailers which offer 0% finance - Can anyone recommend one which has the best range of crank/pedal-based power meters?

Is anybody in London to help me with testing my Vector pedals with your pods.
I have issues with it and wanted to check if new pods would solve that problem.
Cheers

I've got the single sided Vectors if that's any use?

That for sure would help to indicate if I could at least use them as one sided.
I will drop you pm later on. I will not be in rush so we could only meet when conviniant and not a problem for you @Dammit and thank you, very kind of you

P2M came through with the battery cover for my Power Box.

Btw - I have found Sony coin cells give the best battery life (other than Taneta, which I struggle to get hold of).

Have powerpods been discussed here? http://www.powerpodsports.com/

I'm looking at options for my track bike that could also be swapped on to other bikes.. They are suspiciously cheap.

Quick question for those au fait with power.

I have just installed a quarq zero and calibrated it with garmin 500. I got a value of -41. Does that seem reasonable?

Don't bother if you're swapping around loads, they're too sensitive to position. Numbers are vaguely ballpark but if you want some kind of number just get a Powercal

I never even knew Powercal existed. If I just installed the powerpod on my track bike and left it would the data be better than from a Powercal?