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Has anyone used a rim brake caliper on a carbon disc fork and survived? I have an old QR disc brake fork i'd like to try for a bit before committing to a disc wheel and brake for a fixed commuter. Wandering if a carbon rim brake fork has any extra strengthening around the brake hole that a disc fork wouldn't have? Fork is pretty beefy and i'm fairly light.

Said fork: https://www.condorcycles.com/collections/forks/products/pioggia-disc-fork?variant=36522867658

It surely won't have the right size holes for a rim brake if it's just for mudguard mounting

Does a fridge suck in fresh air from outside or just circulate what is in there when the door is shut?

Some fridges have a vent opened with a slider for the crisper drawer. So items that don’t need protecting from overly drying out have the full circulation of the fridge which dries things out, or the slider is closed and the air isn’t circulating past and so the lettuce etc isn’t dried out.

This one takes a recessed nut on the back . Need to check but i'm assuming/hoping the bolt diameter through the front would be the same a standard caliper.

Sounds very rim brakey

Yeah i'm wandering if this is an old rim brake mould that Condor have updated with disc legs.

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What has looking after food correctly got to do with golf?

I was commenting on the fact that our fridge has nothing like that, extremely basic model.

Fridges are airtight deathtraps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuwp7x_IiZ4

So, the smell keeps returning. It's clean inside and while there is some gunk round the back in the little hole outlet it doesn't smell. The smell returns whether the fridge is on or off.

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Scrub out everything on the inside with bicarb and water as a start, then see if you can poke the drain hole through with sticks, pipe cleaner, string, get some bleach down it etc. Clean out that drain tray as well. If it’s a fridge freezer, the drain passage might also be frozen lower down, so it won’t drain out. Might have to empty it out and defrost it for a day or so.

Medication tablets, sealed in blister packs. Do they really go out of date? I've been through my cupboard looking for ibuprofen, and come across a load of other postnatal prescription painkillers that are two years past their use by date.

My wife reckons they should be chucked out, I'm all for eating them

there's definitely not a dead mouse underneath it?

Dangerous for some drugs (e.g. some antibiotics). IME the worst that happens with painkillers is they just don't work as well as they used to.

Two relevant articles:

1. Can medications become harmful after the expiration date? (Nursing journal, lists some of the dangerous ones)
   
2. Extending Shelf Life Just Makes Sense (Mayo Clinic Proceedings, lists results of stability testing of different expired drugs, maybe your find is in there somewhere)
   
   

I am not a doctor or a chemist though, just a random with a big mouth and a web browser, so, you know. If you die of expired painkillers as a result of this conversation, it was your fault for listening to a stranger on the internet instead of your wife 🤪

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7040264/

Medical authorities state that expired medicine is safe to take, even those that expired years ago. It's true the effectiveness of a drug may decrease over time, but much of the original potency still remains even a decade after the expiration date.

Solid dosage forms, such as tablets and capsules, appear to be most stable past their expiration date.

I'll drop a few codeine tabs tonight and let you know how I get on

My wife reckons they should be chucked out

If you do get rid of any medicine then take it to a pharmacy and they'll dispose of it properly (for free). (Disreputable pharmacists may be an exception.)

Don't just chuck it in the bin as it will almost certainly end up in the water system.

it will almost certainly end up in the water system

And that's not even the worst case scenario

I've got some 30/500 co-codomol that are years past their use by date, not killed me yet.

(drs prescribed me hundreds of the buggers for migraines before deciding triptans are a better solution)

I took some ibuprofen at the in-laws that was 12 years out of date a couple of weeks ago. Did the trick and I lived.

how's your ankle? I'm out of the cast but my god it hurts