Any question answered...

We've always had candles on our tree - a remnant of my father's German exchange student experience.

Never lit obviously, but it does look amazing.

He didn’t stick with the tradition of putting the tree in the house on Christmas eve? You can then light candles no worries on Christmas and Boxing Day.

No. We always had our tree up in mid December but his German (Bavarian) family were very traditional and nothing appeared until Christmas eve.

is it possible, to face/cut off the tapered lip on a integrated bearing style head tube, and then installing an external headset?

This is basically the reassurance I was after! I ended up finding the chap I bought it from on the streets last night, asked him and he said the same thing... I imagine the lack of water may mean going this early results in a rather tired tree come christmas day, but that's fine as I won't be here then anyway...

Cheers

IME the trees seemed to last quite well. I guess it depends on how long before christmas you buy the tree though. I'd be interested in seeing a comparison between 2 trees, one watered and one not.

A. No
B. Why would you even want to?

I think the watering idea is to make them slightly less kindling like. Although, I'm not sure how true that is or how much difference it makes to their combustibility.

Yes, some people do put actual burning candles on their trees, which I'd never do. I'm not sure, either, if that would make such a difference to their combustibility, but if you're going to tempt fate, why not try to fight it at the same time? :)

Water in the stand also lowers the centre of gravity, reducing risk of toppling. Although possibly redundant with a stand that substantial.

Oh, definitely, I should have mentioned (although I'm not sure that it applies to all of them) that you fill these stands with water.

No. We always had our tree up in mid December but his German (Bavarian) family were very traditional and nothing appeared until Christmas eve.

Yes, I was assuming that trees would be put up on Christmas Eve and then taken down again on the 6th January, but I'm sure there are so many different ways of doing it that no-one could know them all.

They lit the candles but only when they were in the room.
Because of the candle thing ditch trees were preferred as they were more sparse, and cheaper : )

SAMSUNG UE50TU8070 or sharp 50BL2EA ? for netflix and just tv, not really for games
samsung 400chf and sharp 320 chf...
what do you think is better? money in the pocket or what?

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We always had candles on the tree at home (German family on my mum's side; up on Christmas Eve and down at Epiphany); very pretty, but always felt like living on the wild side a bit. Presumably that was why we had to SIT STILL AND QUIETLY on the sofa whenever they were lit.

Is it cheaper if some else buys it in France or Germany on your behalf?

So you can fit a CK headset? Lol

Or a fork that’s got too short a steerer 🤔

Edit, actually won’t make a difference cos you’ll just add the length back on with the headset cups 😄

Hum good question, will look into it! Thx for the suggestion!

cracked or damaged headtube etc.

why no?
It seems easy in my head if you have the correct tools for the tolerances
Press in a CK

why no?

I should probably have said "almost certainly no"
You need the ID between the bearing seats to be small enough to ream out to fit EC headset cups, which isn't a given, and you need enough extension past the tube joints after cutting off the bearing seats to avoid interference between the EC headset cups and the head/down tubes.

No. We always had our tree up in mid December but his German (Bavarian) family were very traditional and nothing appeared until Christmas eve.

I started doing this a few years back, get the kids to decorate the tree on Crimbo eve. It’s way more special cos you’re not sick of the bloody sight of the deccys by crimbo day.

Isn’t it

Presumably that was why we had to SIT STILL AND QUIETLY

oooh that’s a good idea

Anyone seen grease gun spare parts for sellz? I need the nozzle (ooh errr) for a Weldtite TF2 grease gun. It's just a cheap, plastic needle-nose part and I'd rather buy a part than bin a working greaser.

Thanks

I bought these the other day. Cheapest I could find for a full set that weren't latex. Seem ok so far but only used them a handful of times

Oh wait, probs not what you're after

Those look interesting options (was after an open band, but a loop would do)
Thanks!

I have one of the long open bands with a handle on each end too, I think I bought it on Amazon. Using these closed ones quote a lot now, more than a match for my puny glutes.