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Enamel is not the same as car paint. Otherwise they would enamel cars.

Option 2.

I once did a re-enamel job with this, the results were...passable, after a lot of elbow grease.

I once did a re-enamel job with this, the results were...passable, after a lot of elbow grease.

And looking at the reviews, we may have saved ourselves some hassle by leaving it to cure for longer before polishing out the orange peel

Does messi look like señor bear?

A little bit. Just a little bit.

1) Get it re-enamelled, this is ~£2,000
2) Pay a chap to come round, sand the enamel down (to key it) then spray a thick acrylic all over the bath, when dry this is cut back to a shine. This is ~£300
3) Armourtex it.

Option 3, obviously, preferably in *Gorgeous Baby Blue*™

I've been thinking about option no.3 as my brother managed to put a 2" round hole in the enamel. He still hasn't told us how he did it..

Is he the guy putting them in all the toilet cubicle walls?

I'd go for number two. In enamel.

has anyone tried putting a 130mm rear hub into a 126mm rear drop out?
can it be done, its only 4mm.

yes.

What is 'scandium' and how does it ride compared to aluminium/steel/carbon

It's an alloy of mostly aluminium. It's laterally stiff but vertically compliant*.

*

basically suppose to be lighter, stiffer and stronger than normal alu, that's about it.

a couch coach.

I guess that will make you a liability instructor.

Ok, my internet is driving me f'ing crazy. Dont know what to do?

So, first of all I have a macbook running OSX. From what I can tell it looks like my computer is having difficulty communicating with our router. I have a really strong signal, but the internet is either unbelievably slow, just wont work at all or works fine until it decides to stop? I have sat Jayloo's computer right next to mine and her internet is working fine, while mine is sputtering all over the place? When I take my macbook out to a cafe or whatever I have no problems with wifi at all,I even took it to the apple store where it worked like a champ of course. Therefore it seems that the problem is between my computer and my specific router? I dont know? Anyone have an informed opinion or suggestions on this?

^^ why would you want to?

Cause the "Silver" has 23 little clicks, when you shift to a smaller sprocket the "indexing" sometimes means you go over or under the sweet spot. The overshift-correction -sequence is of course a normal part of shifting, but "Silver" fails in this respect also, cause the mode changes from ratchet to real friction when changing direction leaving a spot of less accuracy at the exact point most accuracy is desired. Also the advantages of not having to fight the combined force of lever friction and derailleur spring is really questionable -- given being involved in a sport that consists of hauling 100kg of steel and meat against gravity.

These kind of subtleties not respected by mere mortals are really important to us frixie ridahs.

I'd go for number two. In enamel.

Vitreous enamel has to be fired at 800 degrees.

Tricky getting my bathroom that hot.

Therefore you have to send the bath away to get it done.

What is 'scandium' and how does it ride compared to aluminium/steel/carbon

apparently it's just alu with a bit of scandium in, and the purpose of this is to make it easier to weld which allows to build a frame with more forgiving geometry and a more similar 'feel' to steel.

There was a scandium discussion just this week in the Current Projects thread - starts about halfway down the page.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread6261-918.html

basically suppose to be lighter, stiffer and stronger than normal alu, that's about it.

Ed, on this one occasion perhaps you should perhaps have kept quiet. Anybody who suggests that one kind of aluminium alloy is stiffer than another needs solid documentary evidence for their claim, which will amount to no more than 5% difference anyway, or they risk showing that they actually don't have a clue about metallurgy.

It seems improbable that you are clueless, so perhaps you will enlighten me about the alloys you were comparing when you said the Sc one was lighter, stiffer and stronger.

and the purpose of this is to make it easier to weld

No, the purpose is to make it retain more fatigue strength in the post-weld condition, it makes no difference to the ease or otherwise of the actual welding process.

I know the deal with Scandium was torsion with less fatigue (for comfort via smaller cross-sections, or weight saving via thinner walls), but remember some people moaning about a finite (and short) lifespan for frames, materializing as a sudden sponginess. This always seemed like bullshit / an excuse for poor performance whilst lusting after what was the 'new-fangled' carbon at that time. [/ramble]

Where can I find a good quality video / sound file of somebody singing İstiklâl Marşı? I am attempting to learn it so that I can annoy my mother on holiday but don't want any actual Turkish people to overhear and point out that I am in fact singing gibberish.

There is an .ogg file with music on its wikipedia entry but there are several people singing on it and I'm finding it difficult to pick out single voices. Youtube is full of awful grainy vids of footballers and footballers never know the words, plus the timing is always out of sync.

Where else can I look? Teşekkur ederim!

Edit: There is a video on Youtube of a cute kid who looks like she's going to start singing it but actually begins shouting it angrily into a microphone instead: YouTube - ‪Ä°stiklal Marşı‬‏

I could do this, too, obvs

what....shoot, what was I going to ask? bothwell's question and video disappeared it from my head!