Any question answered...

Now that the supermarkets have cleverly worked out they can save themselves a few pennies save the environment by not including a lid on pots of yoghurt, humous etc, does anyone do a decent reusable lid for that sort of thing which doesn’t melt in the dishwasher etc? It’s especially annoying when the cellophane tops don’t open cleanly and tear into shreds.

Not personally, but I remember it being mentioned when I was buying something from Mike's... eg.

https://www.mikesdivestore.com/pages/how-to-buy-a-prescription-mask

My mum’s got some funny yoghurt dental dam looking things for this purpose, so they do exist.

Ikea sells packs of stretchy silicone lids.

I may be staying in an Airbnb in France. If I want to be on the safe side in terms of streaming some sort of TV is it worth me taking a chrome cast?

Or will it be a nightmare setting up on another tv?

You can also get the from Ali express

Presumably if the TV is no more than a few years old (and has HDMI ) and the wi fi is OK then don't see many problems?

I guess you are casting something like Netflix from a laptop

We just end up putting everything in Tupperware (other brands are available) pots, for the more hipster vibe jam jars are also available. It’s a pain in the arse though and wastes more food, but a mini spootula is your friend.

It’s a pain in the arse

Yeah that’s the main problem!

Cheers.

Casting from a mobile probably.

The only problems I had with my Firestick was trying to stream BBC iPlayer, ITV, Channel 4, etc as I wasn't in UK

My mum’s got some funny yoghurt dental dam

I have some grease seeping out of relatively new Garmin pedals.
Should I be worried? I remember it took over 10 years of use to start on
XTR pedals.

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Should just plug in. Although personally I'd use one of the modern Chromecasts with a remote control and apps built in rather than casting.

Yeah. I mean that would require buying one rather than packing what I've got. I guess I could take a Firestick too.

Yes, Firestick would be the other alternative. Less reliant on more stuff needing to talk to each other.

I can’t get my head around this Orbea Oiz headset situation. The frame is second-hand but new to me. I tried the headset delivered in a bag with the frame, which fits like the pictures below.

It looks like the top cap is too shallow or the top bearing is too tall. I checked the spec and the bearing is correct, so I bought a new headset specced by Orbea on their website. It fits exactly the same.

There is nothing in the frame, which looks very clean, to add height to the stack. The top cap and bearing won't compress under load to cover the exposed area.

What’s going on? Any experience of these frames or ideas?

Help much appreciated as Orbea’s team are saying I need to take it to a dealer, which is a pain and I expect they’d order in the same headset and arrive at the same issue.

Surely I’m missing something obvious.

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Do you need that black cover on top of the bearing, under the Acros one?

Without it, the top cap slightly touches the head tube, but I could get ride of that with a thin spacer.

I thought you always needed a preload ring in a headset?

What’s going on?

That's what I'm wondering - what's the black blob between the bearing and the cover, some sort of combined collet and seal? You could try a generic compression ring instead, that might gain a mm, and of course #spam https://grafixbyjorj.co.uk/ headset covers come is three different depths to cater for variations in bearing and compression ring height

It’s their supplied “compression ring with an integrated sealing for optimal protection of the headset bearing against moisture and dirt is also included.” But it doesn’t fit.

Will any old compression ring work in the top bearing?

And once you get into the decimals of obsession, the MR155 bearing is 0.5mm thinner than the stock one

Found a standard compression ring, which fits but still leaves the bearing exposed.

It looks like the bearing is too tall? But it’s to spec.

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any old compression ring

Needs to be the right taper angle, 99% sure yours is 45°, e.g. FSA H2081

looks like the bearing is too tall? But it’s to spec

It's not the bearing, it's the cut out in the head tube isn't deep enough. Not something I'd worry about or try to fix, just the sloppy manufacturing we've come to expect and the reason why I always tell CAAD owners to take their own measurements when ordering slam covers - Cannondale actually do better than most and 99% of CAADs work best with a 2mm deep cover, but there's always that odd one which slips though with a too shallow bearing seat cut.