Any question answered...

How much? Usually we drip feed the secure shredder bin at work if there's lots.

Same here but I can't see the one in my new office.....

I could be wrong about this, but I have a feeling that model numbers for various bits of technical kit often include the letters MK. If so, would these two letters refer to anything in particular?

Mark, often abbreviated as 'MK'.

@Bratkartoffles and @aggi

phone/laptop/whatever doesn't switch nicely from one network to the other and it ends up hanging on to the weak connection.

Just to be clear, do you mean:

a. the powerline wifi extenders,
b. an old wifi router, or
c. both?

Cheers.

Bit of a weird one. Not sure where to ask - can anyone help me do a minor edit on an Adobe Illustrator file? It should be a minute job, and I don't have illustrator access at the moment. Please help.

Both.

I can. PM me.

Both (combination of one and the other).

Cheers

Anyone any idea how long this train disruption will last? I need to get an early morning (5am or so) train to Gatwick tomorrow.

Given that it won't be that hot then is it safe to assume the trains will be running OK? Everything online is just about today.

Generally ok early morning. Speed restrictions and cancellations will come in as the sun hots up. I'd maybe get the one earlier than the one you'd usually take tho.

Due to be cool and rainy tomorrow so should be fine anyway, I think, unless some damage has been done today.

Cheers both. Will keep an eye on the website and maybe get the earlier one.

I’m looking for a picture of a bike with no fork crown tops - I think it was a vintage lightweight, British built on Hilary Stone - something like an Alan Shorter TT or Aende - the fork crown had been cut off to save weight - if you imagine it looked like a Gios fork with coins removed and filed back to the fork blades... I can’t seem to find the image again and really want to remind myself of it - can anyone help? @gaston @anidel @dicki @HillyBen you guys seen it?

I can think of a F. Moser flat crown fork. That and the Gios are the ones I know of.

Like this

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/11914694/

A section of my department at work communicates frequently with contacts in Zeebrugge. This section pronounces it 'Zea-brooj' as you would for Bruges. There's some logic here as I understand Zeebrugge is the port of Bruges, but as far as I am aware there's no English name for it as there is for Brugge. Is there any truth that pronouncing it 'Zea-brooj' is acceptable?

Well, I wouldn't consider it 'correct' for the Flemish name, as its original pronunciation is obviously a different one, but when you say that 'there's no English name for it as there is for Brugge', you have just given an 'English' name for it that your colleagues use to make life easier for themselves--and it is also the French name: Zeebruges (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeebrugge), and the 'English' name for Brugge is undoubtedly derived from the French name analogously. I'm sure they must have heard it pronounced [zeːˈbrʏɣə], but have clearly decided to use the easier option.

All you need for there to be a new name is really for someone to invent one. If I decide to call Zeebrugge 'Woppadoodle', I've just made up a new name that then exists, although of course it won't be in general circulation and few people other than me would accept it.

Fear not, once we have a 'Brexit', nobody will need to communicate with Zeebrugge any more, so the problem will resolve itself.

From my Walloon partner, Zer Brugger.
Flemish may be different

few people other than me would accept it

I would!

This makes sense. I'll ensure a strong start to the Woppadoodle thing first thing Monday.

Checked it and it's moving slightly... Enough to cause a wiggle.... I'm thinking that adaptors are wheel specific so i might mail there customer services department...

Cheers lfgss jedi

I've just sheared a 5mm bolt in the front fork of my Surly Straggler.

• There is nothing protruding
  
• I need to fit a bike rack on this
  
• I leave for a tour in a week
  
  

I'm going to Screwfix tomorrow to buy a bolt extractor set, but I'm worried 5mm is too small.

I'm in East London - what's my best course of action?

what's my best course of action?

Don't buy a bolt extractor. Trying to drill the pilot for a bolt extractor is most likely to run the remnants into the fork, assuming a tapped-through boss, and it will either fall through and rattle around in the fork for the rest of your days or it will bottom out against the opposite wall. Since it's not likely to be seriously stuck, a left-handed drill is probably going to be the easiest way to get it out. 3mm or ⅛" should be about right.