Today I acquired...........

[500e]

Footprints when I was an apprentice

 

[Robotstar5]

Footprints when I was an apprentice

Same here

 

[Robotstar5]

3x Harris brushes for £1 and a pair of sprung latches also £1 from the local car boot.
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Sprung latches for another linkbox?, I've finished painting mine but it's too warm to manhandle it out to the car for transport to the stables.

 

[seriesonewelder]

Sprung latches for another linkbox?, I've finished painting mine but it's too warm to manhandle it out to the car for transport to the stables.

they are the size I use so yes at some point.
look forward to seeing a pic of it painted.

 

[AKN]

Without turning my phone on its side I'm guessing you are in the south?

Hotly contested issue when I worked for a national company, as I have become older I accept they are both known as dogs

I hope you are not calling me a southerner?
My father had always refered to the Footprint ones as dogs the only reference I knew.

 

[DAPPH]

Today I acquired some brushes for my ever increasing pile of dead grinders, with luck some of them will be rescued.

Bob

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They rub down well if you use a medium / fine grade wet & dry & re-chamfer them off , so what you have should fit a large range of motors. Glass paper can leave particles of grit left embedded in the brush carbon which can cause problems down the line .

 

[DAPPH]

See, this sort of thing keeps me away from 3D printers. It feels like the "Linux for the desktop" argument a few years ago. Yes, it'll work, but you have to try

Wot I want is plug'n'play.

Joe Prusa's ready built Prusa i 3 s factory assembled , tested works straight out of the box Plus there is Joes full back up , help line and a full spares back up . Not cheap but it will remove those doubts you may have . You'll need to learn a £D drawing package such as Fusion 360.
If you are shy about Fusion 360 pull off ready made drawings & codes from the likes of Thingyverse till you get your confidence & desires

 

[Hood]

Today one of these arrived.

It is to connect to my bike so that Android Auto can be wireless.

Supplied cable didn't work but the bike is picky about USB cables and the wired Android Auto only worked reliably when I got an Anker cable. So I connected the Carsifi via the Anker cable and the phone connected to the bike first time
I will test it out properly at the weekend and if it works well I will bury the Carsifi and the cable under the fairing.
It will be great not to have to plug the phone in each time I use the bike.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Today one of these arrived.

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It is to connect to my bike so that Android Auto can be wireless.

Supplied cable didn't work but the bike is picky about USB cables and the wired Android Auto only worked reliably when I got an Anker cable. So I connected the Carsifi via the Anker cable and the phone connected to the bike first time
I will test it out properly at the weekend and if it works well I will bury the Carsifi and the cable under the fairing.
It will be great not to have to plug the phone in each time I use the bike.

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Where are you going to install the kitchen sink ?

 

[Hood]

Where are you going to install the kitchen sink ?

In the offside pannier The crapper is in the nearside one.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I’m struggling to be honest @Parm , I can’t get them down me quick enough to regulate my temperature
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Good stuff, that .

It will be great not to have to plug the phone in each time I use the bike

First world problems .

 

[Hood]

Good stuff, that .


First world problems .

That is why I don't live in the third world, I like first world problems

 

[arian]

That is why I don't live in the third world, I like first world problems

I wonder what the second world is

 

[8ob]

I wonder what the second world is

Russia.

Bob

 

[Hood]

I wonder what the second world is

No comment.

 

[Dr.Al]

An interesting aside:

Strictly (and arguably out-date-dly) speaking, Sweden is a Third World country. The original definitions of First, Second and Third Worlds related to whether counties aligned with NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Britain, France, USA, Japan etc were First World as they aligned with NATO. The Warsaw Pact countries such as the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam etc were Second World. The countries that remained neutral (including Sweden, Finland and sizeable chunks of the southern hemisphere) were Third World.

As such a high proportion of the Third World countries were less economically developed, the term later became used to refer to developing countries.

You all obviously needed to know that...

 

[MattF]

You all obviously needed to know that...

As necessary as a boil on the backside.

 

[minimutly]

An interesting aside:

Strictly (and arguably out-date-dly) speaking, Sweden is a Third World country. The original definitions of First, Second and Third Worlds related to whether counties aligned with NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Britain, France, USA, Japan etc were First World as they aligned with NATO. The Warsaw Pact countries such as the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam etc were Second World. The countries that remained neutral (including Sweden, Finland and sizeable chunks of the southern hemisphere) were Third World.

As such a high proportion of the Third World countries were less economically developed, the term later became used to refer to developing countries.

You all obviously needed to know that...

And according to our glorious EU friends, are we not classed as third world?

 

[25.4_mechanic]

And according to our glorious EU friends, are we not classed as third world?

No, we are still looking for a suitable new classification system for you ...

 

[dobbslc]