threedaymonk

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• Slipping cranks, drive chain slip?

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 12 years, 6 months

  

  Is it a new chain and an old sprocket?

• Help with Microsoft Word (MS Word questions)

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 14 years, 8 months

  

  I expect they would consider Ubuntu to be some rare African language - I know I do!

  Not that minor: Zulu and Xhosa have about 18 million speakers between them ;-)

• Help with Microsoft Word (MS Word questions)

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 14 years, 8 months

  

  Disabling copy/paste/print in PDF is pretty weak: it only works in applications that respect the restrictions. (The PDF viewer in Ubuntu, for example, doesn't.)

  That may be good enough, though: you're asking for something that's technically almost impossible to achieve.

• Important: Shard HGV Routes published for Fri 16th > Sat 17th April 2010. Avoid area!

  in General • 14 years, 8 months

  

  Ha! you beat me to it, I was plotting the map now on the LCC site at the same time.

  That's a bit nicer with the annotations. What did you use to plot it?

• Important: Shard HGV Routes published for Fri 16th > Sat 17th April 2010. Avoid area!

  in General • 14 years, 8 months

  

  I plotted the routes on a map
  

  to make it easier to avoid them.

• It had to happen sooner or later... Fixed + Pegs

  in Cambridge • 14 years, 9 months

  

  What's that at 00:29? Looks like 24" wheels.

• Help! I need somebody who reads Dutch

  in General • 14 years, 9 months

  

  I can read Dutch OK. (I used to live in Flanders.) I've PM'd you.

• Broken thumb advice

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 14 years, 10 months

  

  After breaking something in my little finger in a cycling accident about two years ago (not sure what: two x-rays were inconclusive), it took me a long time to regain full flexion in the affected joint. To start with, I could hardly bend the finger at all, which was annoying: I kept dropping coins!

  Part of my rehabilitation was physically pushing it as far as it would go. I used stretchy tape to force it to bend. It hurt. It worked: my finger now has full movement, although it took about six months to get to that point.

  The joint is wider than it was, and I still get the odd click or twinge, but I'm led to believe that that's almost unavoidable in finger joint injuries.

• Seatpost stuck - where would I get Caustic soda from?

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 14 years, 10 months

  

  Wear gloves and eye protection! Also, be very careful when dissolving it: add sodium hydroxide to water a little at a time, not the other way around: pouring water onto dry NaOH causes a violent reaction.

• Jens Voight losing to a guy on a 29lb ss!

  in General • 14 years, 10 months

  

  Going by what the presenter says, it's a 99-year old Swiss military bike that actually weights 27kg!