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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Rolf F wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    If you spray the underside of the lawnmower with mucoff bike spray before mowing it makes it really easy to clean out after. Other sprays are available.

    What part of the mower should I be cleaning out?

    The blade and the under bit where it spins - it’s all marginal gains, innit.

    Also stops it slowing down the blade when it spins forcing the motor to over heat and costing you valuable bicyle money in the long run.

    I presume you've drilled your blades?
    Only near the tips.
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Step83 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    I may take it to one of those sharpening place with a fixed price list as it looks like a relic from the Boer War.

    Put a grinding wheel on a dizzy or take the blade off and put it to a bench grinder.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-La ... 3770309942?


    You have gotten my cogs whirring, I "may" be able to run a DC motor of my solar battery... already looking at silly things like compressors and the like (for tubeless inflation)
    You can use an old hard drive as a grinder.
  • step83
    step83 Posts: 4,170
    I cant break the fapdrive!!

    In all seriousness, a small 12dc motor with say a drill chuck mounted could be very very useful.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,497
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    I may take it to one of those sharpening place with a fixed price list as it looks like a relic from the Boer War.

    Put a grinding wheel on a dizzy or take the blade off and put it to a bench grinder.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-La ... 3770309942?

    Many thanks

    FWIW: A sharp, shallow angle will cut nicely but won't last. A thick say, 45 deg angle won't be so sharp but will last longer. Try to strike a balance between the 2 and remove the same amount of metal (approximately) on each tip so that the blade isn't out of balance.
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  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    During an interview with Andrew Neil an XR spokeswoman revealed that banning literally all air travel would reduce global temperatures by 0.003°C.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pO1TTcETyuU
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,811
    Pinno wrote:
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    I may take it to one of those sharpening place with a fixed price list as it looks like a relic from the Boer War.

    Put a grinding wheel on a dizzy or take the blade off and put it to a bench grinder.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-La ... 3770309942?

    Many thanks

    FWIW: A sharp, shallow angle will cut nicely but won't last. A thick say, 45 deg angle won't be so sharp but will last longer. Try to strike a balance between the 2 and remove the same amount of metal (approximately) on each tip so that the blade isn't out of balance.

    Primary and secondary bevel is a bit OTT for a lawnmower I suppose.
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    Shortfall wrote:
    During an interview with Andrew Neil an XR spokeswoman revealed that banning literally all air travel would reduce global temperatures by 0.003°C.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pO1TTcETyuU

    Changes in behaviour might not decrease temperature but may reduce the rate of increase. If we carry on as at present, what is the contribution of air travel to the predicted increase in global temperature?
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    edited October 2019
    The Andromeda galaxy is so incomprehensively enormous that if it was visible to the naked eye its appearance would be 3 times bigger than the moon.
    Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    That reminds me.

    Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer in time to now than to when Stegosaurus lived. By about 10 million years.
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    That reminds me.

    Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer in time to now than to when Stegosaurus lived. By about 10 million years.

    Even more thought provoking for me is that I was born less than 20 years after WW2.
    Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    it is fun to play the "things that are closer to the date of the moon landing than today" game! things that seem surprisingly recent crop up!

    Jurassic Park for one!
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Chris Bass wrote:
    it is fun to play the "things that are closer to the date of the moon landing than today" game! things that seem surprisingly recent crop up!

    Jurassic Park for one!

    Liverpool FC winning the league

    Spurs winning the FA Cup
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Oxo cubes can be smushed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKI40q38LUw seriously why do they make them in X shapes if you smush them!!!
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,811
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    Chris Bass wrote:
    it is fun to play the "things that are closer to the date of the moon landing than today" game! things that seem surprisingly recent crop up!

    Jurassic Park for one!

    Liverpool FC winning the league

    Spurs winning the FA Cup

    Cleopatra lived closer to now than the building of the pyramids.
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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    That reminds me.

    Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer in time to now than to when Stegosaurus lived. By about 10 million years.
    Ah. another Infinite Monkey Cage listener!
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    elbowloh wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    That reminds me.

    Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer in time to now than to when Stegosaurus lived. By about 10 million years.
    Ah. another Infinite Monkey Cage listener!

    God no. I wouldn't willingly listen to that Brian Cox.
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Even more thought provoking for me is that I was born less than 20 years after WW2.

    Me too by a couple of years. I'm guessing the country was still scraping itself back together when I came along. In fact rationing had only ended 3 years earlier...

    And now we have one in three children obese by the time they leave primary school :roll:
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    elbowloh wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    That reminds me.

    Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer in time to now than to when Stegosaurus lived. By about 10 million years.
    Ah. another Infinite Monkey Cage listener!

    God no. I wouldn't willingly listen to that Brian Cox.
    That fact came up in a recent episode.

    Whats wrong with Cox? Wonders of the Solar System was ground breaking terms of communication around astronomy and cosmology to the masses and Monkey Cage has always been entertaining.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,811
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    elbowloh wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    That reminds me.

    Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer in time to now than to when Stegosaurus lived. By about 10 million years.
    Ah. another Infinite Monkey Cage listener!

    God no. I wouldn't willingly listen to that Brian Cox.
    Never forgiven him for D:ream?
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,708
    keef66 wrote:
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Even more thought provoking for me is that I was born less than 20 years after WW2.

    Me too by a couple of years. I'm guessing the country was still scraping itself back together when I came along. In fact rationing had only ended 3 years earlier...

    And now we have one in three children obese by the time they leave primary school :roll:
    I can remember seeing footage of VE Day in The World At War, and thinking that the children, clothing and scenes didn't look that different from when I was their age. And when I was doing history at secondary school, the end of WW2 was only 30 years previous.

    The other fun game to play is to project your age backwards from your year of birth, to give you a perspective on timescales... I'd now go back to 1909. Hmm.
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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    briantrumpet wrote:
    The other fun game to play is to project your age backwards from your year of birth, to give you a perspective on timescales... I'd now go back to 1909. Hmm.

    1895 :shock:
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    briantrumpet wrote:
    keef66 wrote:
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Even more thought provoking for me is that I was born less than 20 years after WW2.

    Me too by a couple of years. I'm guessing the country was still scraping itself back together when I came along. In fact rationing had only ended 3 years earlier...

    And now we have one in three children obese by the time they leave primary school :roll:
    I can remember seeing footage of VE Day in The World At War, and thinking that the children, clothing and scenes didn't look that different from when I was their age. And when I was doing history at secondary school, the end of WW2 was only 30 years previous.

    The other fun game to play is to project your age backwards from your year of birth, to give you a perspective on timescales... I'd now go back to 1909. Hmm.

    Same here. 1909. Hell! What a thought.
    I vaguely remember seeing prefab housing in East End of London in early 70s. And there were hardly any overweight people. No mobility scooters to dodge on the roads and pavements either.
    Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,708
    keef66 wrote:
    briantrumpet wrote:
    The other fun game to play is to project your age backwards from your year of birth, to give you a perspective on timescales... I'd now go back to 1909. Hmm.

    1895 :shock:
    Impressive... I wonder who can beat that here...
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,708
    On a different subject, I've learnt that toilet seats that lower themselves down slowly given a gentle push are very pleasing. £19 Ikea jobby.
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  • forehead
    forehead Posts: 180
    briantrumpet wrote:
    On a different subject, I've learnt that toilet seats that lower themselves down slowly given a gentle push are very pleasing. £19 Ikea jobby.

    I got my first soft closing toilet seat when I bought a house in March, my life is very much the better for it.
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  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    briantrumpet wrote:
    keef66 wrote:
    briantrumpet wrote:
    The other fun game to play is to project your age backwards from your year of birth, to give you a perspective on timescales... I'd now go back to 1909. Hmm.

    1895 :shock:
    Impressive... I wonder who can beat that here...

    Not me, 1964 here
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,497
    1935 for me. Makes you think a bit!
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    1935 for me too
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  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    lots of young folk around aren't there! :)
  • Darius_Jedburgh
    Darius_Jedburgh Posts: 675
    briantrumpet wrote:
    keef66 wrote:
    briantrumpet wrote:
    The other fun game to play is to project your age backwards from your year of birth, to give you a perspective on timescales... I'd now go back to 1909. Hmm.

    1895 :shock:
    Impressive... I wonder who can beat that here...
    Me, me, me.

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