Hacks / Bodges

I tried to do that a few weeks ago when none of the kitchen gear could get some cream sufficiently whipped. Struck out coming up with anything to adapt it

Similar thinking

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Ha I have done this (same grinder) but not convince my drill chuck was gripping it that well so stopped before rounding it out

Hot glue gun + valve cap = a sturdy replacement for the rubber which shreds off the tip of these cleaning brushes. No more pokey wire scratching your bike

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Struck out coming up with anything to adapt it

Line the hole carefully with clingfilm, then try the superglue and bicarb video from the last page, release the mold then attach it to an old hex bit using the same method.

That probably would've done it!

I call this hack "Success has its price".

Needing to get a damp bonfire going with lots of fresh cut green material, I used my heat gun. Worked brilliantly. But a few minutes of leaving it unattended led to the melting of part of the black thermoplastic housing, and my nice DeWalt heat gun now looks a bit worse for wear!

Moral of the story: get a cheap "burner" (literally) heat gun if you want to make use of this hack. Leave the shiny yellow one in your workshop.......

To cap it off, a ground wasp, whose nest was nearby, stung me on the ear.

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Needing to get a damp bonfire going with lots of fresh cut green material

Very curious to know why anyone would need or want to start a damp smokey bonfire.

Were you stranded with no charge left on your mobile battery, and nothing but a heatgun to save you? Or had Mick Dundee hidden himself in a small rocky outcrop and this was your least risky move to flush him out?

I'd be disappointed if my expensive heat gun melted.

Indeed, a hack that went wrong. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and all that.

Nothing as prosaic as that, unfortunately. Although you could say that the ground wasp stood in for the croc.

Yeah nobody should be burning wet leaves.
I'm also curious about the context when you are Needing to get a damp bonfire going

Don't worry, this is a rural farming area. No neighbours.

I've got glow-in-the-dark versions of these on one of my tents. :)

Been there. The last one was I had a safety pin on one of my cycling jacket zippers for 5 years or more. Worked a treat.

thermoplastic

indeed

I want to get a bottlecage under my frame but I don't have eyelets. What are the options ?
I tried with an adapter but it was too close to the tyre. Is my answer problemsolvers/sjscycles as usual ?

What's the frame made out of?

Steel

Drill and rivet nuts.

Yeah but it's quite a recent (and decent) frame, don't want to fuck it..

Cable ties and electrical tape if you're going for the spirit of this thread

*Hot glue

Zip ties work a treat but if its a 'nice' frame the zefal gizmo is a neater option

+1 for the zefal thingy. It's what I have on a frame with no bosses.