What have you bought today?

Brigadier said:
I have been wondering whether I've had a cold for the last fortnight.

Or whether it was the dreaded pollen.

So I thought "To Hell with the expense!", and splashed a whole 89p on a packet of hay fever tablets :cool:
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‘King high today over here and I’m suffering, even after taking tablets.

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32 feet of 4x3, to once again rebuilt my heavy-duty picnic tables main structure. I first built it 40 years ago, redoing the structure 20 years ago, and replacing the top and seats, a couple of years ago. It gets used for standing on, to load the washing, on the line, as an outdoor heavy-duty work table, and of course for outdoor dinning...Trigger's broom.
 
Some low-tack Frog tape and some Dulux satinwood paint from B&Q. A 750ml tin was £23 which would have been enough to do our small bedroom woodwork and built in cupboard but a 2.5 litre tin was only £9 more so I bought one of those instead - that’ll be enough for the other two bedrooms if it doesn’t go off by the time I get round to doing them!
 
johnny2007 said:
A Scapin TR-X frame 1997 and a Rock Shox SID.
Time for a new built :cool:
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Is that a brand new frame? One of the units in the qualifications I oversee involves changing a frame - it’s more involved than most people would think. The students have to cut the bottom bracket to make sure it’s square, then chase out the threads before fitting the crank bearings etc as well as fitting bearings into the head tube. Will you have to do that to yours? They also do wheel building too - I wouldn’t have the patience to do that!
 
Mottie said:
Is that a brand new frame? One of the units in the qualifications I oversee involves changing a frame - it’s more involved than most people would think. The students have to cut the bottom bracket to make sure it’s square, then chase out the threads before fitting the crank bearings etc as well as fitting bearings into the head tube. Will you have to do that to yours? They also do wheel building too - I wouldn’t have the patience to do that!
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It's a 1997 frame, not new.
Wheel built is something done in winter while the wife watches the soaps.
I already have the wheelset from last winter.
Not age specific so the purists might hate me, but I use hollowtech 2 bottom bracket, 5 minutes to fit and hard wearing.
Bearings is the bit that a lot of people mess up, but I've done so many in my life I could do it blindfolded.
Said that, nowadays headsets take caged bearings, so again, a 5 minute job.
Gone are the days when it took a week to put a bike together.
It can be done in 2 or 3 hours now.
 
A wooden loft ladder and hatch. Going to have a go at fitting it myself - just got to cut a big hole in my ceiling. What could go wrong! :unsure:
 
Mottie said:
A wooden loft ladder and hatch. Going to have a go at fitting it myself - just got to cut a big hole in my ceiling. What could go wrong! :unsure:
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If you have access to the upper floor, best thing to do is to stand in the middle and cut around your feet...
Of course make sure to mark the hole so it's big enough for you to fit in it...
 
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