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Uh oh, hope she's alright!

IR35 does not apply to sole traders.

The company you are working for should have determined your employment status at the start of your contract. I would speak to your accountant if you have one and follow up on the reasons you ate operating as a sole trader with the company you are contracted to as I'm pretty sure under the most recent legislation the responsibility / liability is theirs

Why do bike shops that sell new frames almost never know what facing and reaming of the headtube and BB is?

It should really be a step in manufacturing so in theory, shops very rarely have to deal with it

On the 2 frames i bought new, a Ribble and a Soma (both steel) it desperately needed to be done.
I'm thinking about getting a Surly frame now but actually read on there website that only removing excess paint should be enough

only removing excess paint should be enough

Presumably this means they have faced it after welding and then painted over it. There is really no excuse for not simply masking the HT and BB faces.

I had most of the tools but almost never used them, plus there are now a million standards so it's a hell of an investment for something you'd rarely do and no one wants to pay for.

Is there a thread on here for glorified sheds/garden rooms/studios etc?

Sort of but it's really well hidden and a massive pain in the arse to find.

Ha. Exactly.

Can you remember its name? I’m about to have one finished and have a bunch of questions on fit-out.

I’m running an Ethernet out to the studio. What type of router do I need to have WiFi in a 15sqm space?

Can I buy anything or does it need to be from our provider BT. In fact they sent us a new ‘home hub’ or something that we never fitted ages ago, so could we use that in the studio? Or will that interfere with the main router we use in the house?

What type of router do I need to have WiFi in a 15sqm space?

You want a Wireless Access Point to create a WiFi connection to the wired network. Anything will do, including the spare home hub if it has an upstream LAN connection among its collection of available ports. You shouldn't have to dick about manually to avoid contention, modern devices do that fine by themselves.

Is it the same process for CF frames? Or is it done in the mould(s)?

I have no experience of CF manufacturing except a tiny bit of tube to tube using an alloy BB shell so I don't know. I'd have thought external part dims on parts in moulds should come out pretty accurate from the mould but I'm not sure.

This article answers all my questions. I hope it's accurate https://www.lavelocita.cc/guides-page/facing-carbon-fibre-bike-frames

CF would have to be reamed and faced after de-moulding. You could probably co-mould ally or Ti inserts and have them accurate enough to be concentric, but they’d still be covered in resin after curing.

It’s a mould split line thing. The resin gets sucked/squeezed into the gaps between the mould parts, so it generally needs cleaning off after it’s de-moulded.

That article is an incredibly long way of saying carbon is more abrasive than steel or aluminium. There’s no black art to it. Cutters won’t last as long, but you basically use the same cutters.

Edit: in the factory, they’ll be jigged up to not have to do it by hand. They’ll just clamp the frame in a jig on the machine and hit it with the cutter while flooding it with coolant. 99% of the time it’ll be accurate enough.

Let's say you're from mainland Europe and you would move to the UK and could live anywhere you want there, where would you go and why? (Jobs not taking into consideration)

you could try one of these

it uses the electricity cables to carry the signal. Mine works perfectly out in the shed. A little annoying that it has to disconnect from the house wifi and reconnect to the TP link one, but really simple to set up and has been totally stable for 2 years

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/4661847

Let's say you...

...wanted to start an argument on the Internet 😁

The entirety of the UK is such a shit hole, it’s so hard to choose one least shit place 🤔.

But if you just want the correct answer, draw a box around Ditchling, Wivelsfield, Piltdown and Ringmer - you'd want to land in it. Rural, but easy to get to London for a day trip, mild weather, behind the Downs so you avoid the issues of being on the coast.

Budget? Lifestyle?

If you’re from Neully sur Seine, go to Richmond or Chelsea. If you’re from upper Bavaria, try the Highlands. Sicilian? Don’t mind wind and cold and want to get away from humans, move to the Isle of Skye. Want to raise a family in a liberal-ish, affordable-ish, middle class-ish environment, then there’s lots of commuter towns like Reading.

Just avoid Swindon.

London.
Squat, drain as much money from this cunthole and leave

What do you want to do outside of work?