Any question answered...

Have a number for it? I have a park one that has a pin(actually I have about half a dozen with pins).

Not at home right now so can't check

Google for park tool cassette tool

I use Cyclo's loose sockets. No pin.
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/dk/en/cyclo-pro-series-cassette-lockring-remover/rp-prod7975

The original Shimano TL-HG10 (now renamed TL-LR10) has a big hole through the middle. Park FR-5 (not FR-5G) also has a hole big enough for a normal 10mm axle.

Park FR5 I think.

Ok have a handful of model numbers and stuff will ride around tomorrow and see what shops have.

The quality targets are KPIs for an Engineering manufacturer. There are three shops (Weld, Paint and Assembly) to which each is allocated one of the sub targets, A, B and C. The overall target and the result of the formula is the overall plant result. I'm not convinced the formula is the best way to calculate an overall result, but it's the company's global standard and little me isn't going to change it. All the percentages represent the proportion of products that go through their respective shops without being repaired, eg correct first time. Each year we study previous results and derive the ratios, as they are easy for everyone to understand relative performance and allocation of targets between each shop.

Hope is crystal now!

Each year we study previous results and derive the ratios, as they are easy for everyone to understand relative performance and allocation of targets between each shop

So if the welders are getting 90% of their jobs right first time and the painters are only getting 40% right first time, your allocation of targets using the same ratio as they achieved last year might mean the welders have to work their butts off get up to 95% while the painters can keep slacking off and still hit their new 42.2% target.

If I understand correctly, the targets should not be success rate, they should be error rate, and they should be a proportion of the errors, not a proportion of the total production. Now the welders just have to halve their error rate from 10% to 5% to earn the same bonuses which the lazy good-for-nothing paint shop won't get until they too have halved their error rate from 60% to 30% :-)

Bloody painters.

No, everyone gets the same bonus at our place, we're in it together!

Anyway, I'm getting a little confused and think I may not be explained some inverse target logic very well.
It's not as simple as the new targets are based on an amalgamation of results from recent history and the last few years both to recognise recent performance and reward effective term strategies.
I've not got the numbers with me but yes the ratio reflects allocation of no good parts targets. So Weld achieve good results, say 99% overall, they receive (relative to others results) only 2% of this year's target. It's therefore going to be around that figure again.
& all of this is why I'm struggling with the logic!!

Just stick the money behind the bar and let everyone get on with it.

all of this is why I'm struggling with the logic!

The maths problem you set us is easy, we can get the maths right. Getting the right maths is the hard part - working out exactly what you should be calculating in order to achieve the desired result. Management by numbers follows the principle of optimising the numbers which can be measured easily, not necessarily the things which would actually improve business performance. You can see that, in the hands of an idiot (in which class we can include the majority of managers), a set of numbers which count the right-first-time rate of an operation could lead to the dumb target of telling everybody to improve their right-first-time rate by 10%. Anybody who is already over 91% can't possibly hit the target, and the worst performing departments get the easiest targets.

inverse target logic

Would a shim fix that?

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I agree, but there's other aspects to target setting. A target should be challenging, but achievable, otherwise it can have a negative effect and be demotivational. In addition, to achieve some of these targets could cost a vast amount of money and resources, hence why we try to incorporate longer term thinking into target setting.
Anyway thank you again, it's made me realise I need to put more thought into my strategy.

I'm clearing out some clothes and I have a load of mens shirts. Usually I go to cancer research, because it's close. But they are getting a bit more picky and I wondered if shirts were the sort of thing that there was a more specific place for.

Also I remember someone who volunted for a homeless charity ages ago saying socks were always in high demand, and I should probably clear some of those out too.

Any suggestions?

These people look good

http://www.suitedbootedcentre.org.uk

I've never used them

withered_preacher in reply to @MultiGrooves
This was to me?
Not sure about the shift point on the older Torpedos, I've only tried out friends' bikes.
Sorry - also, just back from work which is why the delayed reply.

Sorry yes. How did the shift point feel to you did it go early could it be an issue on hills?

Anyone else have any experience of either the newer Sram automatix or the older Torpedo IGHs?

dbr
My rear GP Four Season has a cut and needs replaced. The front one also has a small cut but will be fine. I've bought a Michelin Pro 4 Endurance.

Should I switch the front Continental to the back with the thinking that if the cut gets worse and it blows-out having it on the back will be less catastrophic, or do I keep it where it is and put the Michelin on the back. Apparently the Michelins come up big so it might be weird having a 25c Conti on the back and something that seems more like a 28c on the front.

Cut up a strip from a thin-ish plastic bottle and place it between the tire and inner tube. Keep badly worn tires on the rear.

I also know a dentist.

x

dancing james
Hoping to put up a marquee/large gazebo in our garden for our wedding party. Anyone have experience or recommendations for one? It doesn't have to be huge, its just we get married in May and want to have some cover if the weather is shit.

You have one or need one? If the latter ding me.

I only had access to the kickback, never tried out the automatic one.

A friend had texted me to say that his chainstay on a tigged steel frame is cracked.

I'm assuming it's fixable as steel usually seems to be, but:

-would it generally involve a repair or replacing the whole stay?
-who in London would do it?
-how much would it likely cost?

Cheers for the advice. Avoided a £15 trip to the LBS (although spent a tenner on the tool and broke a ratchet drive thing in the process).

Plenty of wd40, a mallet and the tool did it, eventually. Managed to take a bunch of paint off the BB shell when it went as well. Not sure how.

^Jeez would be proud..

Sounds like it was put together dry.