Any question answered...

Depends on the chain also. SRAM chains are better for this, more flexible.

What packing friendly towels are you guys using?

The micro/nano/antibacterial bla bla stuff can cost anything from £3 to £35 and I am unsure at what point of the price scale diminishing returns start to happen.

At the lowest level.
Take a linen dish towel, dries almost as fast as plastic.

https://www.gripitfixings.co.uk/

The one's @Dammit linked to are good, but i've lost loads in old crumbly plasterboard by overtightening. And making a fucking mess.

@mdcc_tester Any reason why I shouldn't order a few custom chainrings from this place https://lavky.com/kyivchainrings/ ?

Also can anyone draw me some CAD drawings of a 47-49-50-51t 11obcd chainring without teeth please? Going to make some faux Sug CHCD chainrings

Any reason why I shouldn't order

Well, 4 sales and no reviews means you're very much in guinea pig mode. If they were cheap, it might be worth a punt, but they aren't. If you just want some basic rings to skin with crabon fribé, Gebhardt Klassic* is your friend. Stone do 110mm track rings in all the sizes if you think having actual ⅛" rings or 7075 is that much of an advantage.

*3/32" is OTP. In theory they will do ⅛" in 110mm PCD, but I haven't found out yet whether they do custom stuff direct to UK.

drawings of a 47-49-50-51t 11obcd chainring without teeth

You mean circles sized to clear the chain after you apply them to an actual chainring?

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Yes exactly that please. Also, do you know of any place that could cut these out for me?
Thanks for the info on the previous question too

How much should I expect to pay in paypal fees when selling something for around £125? The website is pretty opaque

Fibrelyte

https://www.clothnappytree.com/ppcalculator/

It's 3.4% + 20p, so £4.50.
More if there's a currency conversation, think it's 3.9%

For travelling?

My first one was a relatively pricey lifestyle systems with all the bells and whistles. The price meant I had to get a medium sized one. It was excellent.
It took a while to smell, but ultimately still needed washing. I left it drying in a hostel and forgot it.

Next time around I used an insanely cheap Chinese microfiber one. The low cost meant I could get a massive one - which still fit in the expensive ones bag. It didn't function as well, but still dried me - this could have been my choice of thread(?). It required washing a similar amount as the expensive one.

Personally I'd get a super cheap one. But it depends on your situation.

can anyone draw me some CAD drawings

Well, if you insist on using a sledgehammer to crack a nut...

You'll want to double check these dimensions, but otherwise this is enough for Fibrelyte to work from. You're going to be looking at about £50 each in 1mm carbon fibre

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Cheers @umop3pisdn @abr

Wow a very intense reaction for you too then.

I’m only reading out of interest and a curiosity as I work through my own issues, no academic endeavour on my part. I’ve had a couple sessions already and the first triggered an intense flashback, that I also experienced very physically.

If you haven’t already read it, you might find this book helpful - ‘The Body Keeps The Score - by Bessel van der Kolk’. I have it as an ebook, if you want me to send it over just shoot me a PM.

Thanks... and to @MrE too. I applied and left it alone > it gets the coating treatment this weekend.

Decathlon!

We have a few machines a new one that takes gas. that is about all I know. another one is a stick welder. we don't have brazing stuff

I spoke to a guy at a maker space sort of thing as I'm intending to do some basic frame modification. Unfortunately he knows nothing about welding (neither do I), but he did tell me the above. Does the gas machine sound like TIG?

If so can I TIG cable stops and that sort of thing? Shit quality work is fine, and the frame's going to be cheap CroMo shite, so nothing that'll require delicate work. (seems the answer is yes to this bit, although brazing is preferred) They will teach me how to use the welder.

Could be MIG as well.

Yeah, which is no good for bikes right? I think I'll just have to go along and find someone who knows what they're doing

You can MiG a bike - I have.

It just looks really shit, especially when you're as bad at welding as me. Good thing about a cable stop is, if it breaks off, you're unlikely to die.

Sweet. Looks are not something that I care about. It's melting through the tube that I though was the problem, but I suppose with my ancient low-end frame the tubes are going to be fairly thick

You could very easily blow holes in bike tubing with TIG anyway