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Recommendations for compressionless brake outer? Thanks

Any that doesn't compress.

Depends on your budget.
Odyssey (BMX stuff), Jagwire, Nokon.

Recommendations for compressionless brake outer?

Depends why you think you need low-compression housing.

Maybe I'm getting myself confused but I'm after decent outer (linear?) that's going to give a sharper lever feel, I've had long rear cable runs with cheap spiral outer that feel spongy.

@jontea thanks, Jagwire Pro looks like what I'm after

long rear cable runs

Low compression outers (Transfil Flying Snake is my favourite) work as they should to reduce wasted lever motion, but there's a trade off - they don't like tight corners.

When in the spare bedroom your trolleys could live in a wardrobe. Just remove the panel at floor level and wheel 'em in https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/pax-wardrobes-with-doors-24337/ I'm thinking of having a whole wall of wardrobes like this, in my sitting room. I want to go travelling, sublet my flat and leave lots of my crap behind in such a way that it will be unobtrusive for the tenants. You've got me thinking that one or two of the wardrobes could 'go mobile'.

Question about energy tariffs and pricing, (sorry if this thread isn’t designed for this), just spitballing an idea.
Setting ethics aside, is there anything to stop me over declaring my gas and electric usage significantly to my energy provider before April, overpaying my bills based on these inflated usage numbers, and effectively building a gas/electric credit on my account, which I would have bought at a lower rate?
Then a few months later in the year when I submit actual readings, my bill (at the post-April uncapped rate) will be mostly paid off already.
Would this work to let me pay most of my year’s energy usage at the capped rates, or is this likely to backfire on me?
Sorry for the odd question! Thanks

I've had a couple of beers and my brain not too agile but as you actually haven't bought anything will you save when the price goes up?

is there anything to stop me over declaring my gas and electric usage significantly to my energy provider before April

Only the fact that it's fraud, and easily detected. You could probably get away with about 10% over on electricity and 20% over on gas as the low "consumption" in the next quarter would be partially accounted for by seasonal variability, thus not triggering the fraud detection algorithm

Yeah, that sounds like an offence which is frequently prosecuted. Cnnchi's post has already been recorded by GCHQ. Next stop the Gulag.

Just buy a lorry load of batteries and a great big balloon. No fraud then.

Someone I know had a gas meter in a dimly lit cupboard under the stairs. Mistaking a 3 for an 8 he submitted an inaccurate reading. One week later he got on a train at Didcot Parkway. The carriage doors locked, and he couldn't get out until Norilsk.

I look forward to a ‘gulag getaway’ in sunny Siberia in that case!
Purely a hypothetical situation since I’ve been temporarily shafted by the meter estimates then rebated later on, I wondered if it works in the other direction. From what the answers above have noted, the answer is yes, but it is true that the companies are wise to it and my pondering shouldn’t exclude ethics entirely.
Thanks for your time chaps.

I need to buy a bunch of alloy headset spacers. Like 100 3mm spacers. Where can I get them that isn't going to be £5 each

99p at chain reaction, though I suspect you can do better in bulk somewhere.
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/deda-elementi-alloy-headset-spacer/rp-prod158495

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001046443468.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.50c43c00kdZE0s&mp=1

35 packs of those will give you change from £40

Not quite, I've ordered 20 lots and it was £56 with vat and shipping but still under a pound each with is decent. Ta

Didn't know you'd bought a Thorn?

Anyone work with really small things and have opinions on magnification aids?

I'm attempting to solder some surface mount things and they are really tiny. I find it very hard to see which side is which on an 0805 LED and I can't tell which pin is 1 on an SO16 package.

Options seem to be an illuminated magnifying glass on an arm / head mounted lenses / some sort of microscope. Any experience one way or another?

I bought these for the exact purpose of soldering tiny surface mount capacitors and stuff. They of a worked well, with 2 sets of lenses and built in led.
They were dead cheap on ebay

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At work we've got a magnifier which is like a large version of a magnifying glass on an arm but boxed in. We've also got a stereo magnifier which is more like a stereoscope microscope but with quite low mag. Also got a headband with a magnifier. I don't really get on with any of them, but I more need a bit of help focusing than magnifying.

Depends how much you've got to do and how bad your eyes are tbh. Have you tried a pair of cheap reading glasses? I noticed I've started struggling over the last couple of years. Might be worth taking a component into Boots and seeing if their £2.99 reading specs help...

Thanks. Those are very cheap so I'll give a pair a go.

I've had reading glasses for about a year now, also used for computer work. Regular soldering would be a challenge without them but they aren't enough for SMD for me - I need things to be bigger.