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I have a 2p sized blood blister on the palm of my hand. Pop it or leave it?

Cut a hole in it and suck it through a straw.

I'll donate £1 to a charity of your choice.

^ aargh. NO. I realise I'm from the right area but I am not a member of Dirty Sanchez.

I got the blister from playing polo. I have a hole in the glove from polo so I guess it started wearing at my hand instead. It's pretty funky how you can push everything inside around.

O'Shane hates charity.

I have a 2p sized blood blister on the palm of my hand. Pop it or leave it?

The nurse in me says leave it, nice and sterile at the mo. :)

So the part of you that isn't a nurse is saying to video me popping it then see how many hits it gets on youtube?

Cut a hole in it and suck it through a straw.

I'll donate £1 to a charity of your choice.

So the part of you that isn't a nurse is saying to video me popping it then see how many hits it gets on youtube?

pop it.

suck it.

film it.

????????

Profit bro!

there is a place for that...

So the part of you that isn't a nurse is saying to video me popping it then see how many hits it gets on youtube?

Yeah, whilst standing on your head. :)

^^ Oh wow. Hours of viewing there. That's tomorrows day off work sorted then.

I'm just trying to fix a wheel for a mate. It has a split nipple. Its a 24h front Vuelta Chromelite with 4.5mm bladed spokes. I can't find out which gauge nipple to replace it with. The spokes are manufactured by Alpina and are definitely larger than 2mm at the business end ( that is the largest nipple I've tried on it).

I got my micrometer out and I'm getting a reading of 2.30mm just next to the thread and exactly 2.5mm on the actual spoke thread.

What gauge spoke/nipple am I dealing with here? I can find 2.3mm and 2.5mm online...

Cheers

Slow reply, but the measurement you want is the flat, unthreaded part of the spoke just before the thread begins. When the threads are rolled (and on good spokes they should be rolled rather than cut) the recess is effectively narrower but the raised part is effectively wider, hence the larger measurement on the thread itself.

You were looking forward to popping that all yesterday, can't believe you haven't done it yet.

^^ Looking at the Alpina stuff I think all their spokes are either 2.0mm or 2.32mm at the thread end.

I was too tired when I got home last night. It would have been a wasted experience.

Half of the weekend was a wasted experience for me.

Slow reply, but the measurement you want is the flat, unthreaded part of the spoke just before the thread begins. When the threads are rolled (and on good spokes they should be rolled rather than cut) the recess is effectively narrower but the raised part is effectively wider, hence the larger measurement on the thread itself.

^^ Looking at the Alpina stuff I think all their spokes are either 2.0mm or 2.32mm at the thread end.

Thats great, many thanks mate.

I went with the unrolled measurement in the end as you suggested. 13G it is.

I'm pretty happy with how accurate my micrometer is. It is about as old as a metric micrometer could be and is easily accurate to one or two hundredths of a mm still.

When I first got it it was way out. I thought I needed to calibrate it but it turned out I just needed to clean some corrosion and dirt off the contact points. After that it has been pretty much perfect since. I've got a cheap digital micrometer and whilst it is pretty good it is comparatively inconsistent.

/csb

Is Thatcher still to blame?

Depends on the 'problem'

I thought she was to blame for everything?

Who is going to buy me this?

Is the hinault funding that?

Good question but alas no, probably go on something boring like car insurance.

The frame looks to be 60% good frame 40% good paint job

Is Thatcher still to blame?

Depends on the 'problem'

I thought she was to blame for everything?

swing and a miss

^

I got the blister from playing SOLO polo...
It started wearing at my hand instead...
It's pretty funky how you can push everything inside around...

Has this been resolved yet ?

Naaaah, GOLIE polo.

I'm charging the batteries on the camera. Phone video is shite.