What did you buy today?

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PM999
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With 6 road bikes of various vintages between the two of us, a trip to the dark side beckoned:

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A really nice thing, and I'm looking forward to some local trails.
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eileithyia wrote: 16 Oct 2021, 9:54pm Tea bags (for hotel room) tea and cake in Puerta Pollensa after the out and back to Formentor,
My favourite ride.
Thompson Elite seatpost.It's for the Focus but if it's in good enough nick I might put it on the Lynskey :mrgreen:
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A programme at Ramsbottom; the forecast rain held off luckily.
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[XAP]Bob wrote: 29 Sep 2021, 4:47pm Rattle can of supposedly combined primer and topcoat in scarlet.

Had a new bottom bracket mount made up for the mango, so it's not going to be particularly exposed or maltreated. I'm optimistic that I can get the paint to stick well enough to protect it.
Can't do where it mates with the frame though, it's practically an interference fit.

Turned out quite well.
Not the hardest wearing surface, not the glossiest… but it’ll keep the wet and air away.
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2 Lezyne allu bottle cages.
Not cheap at £20 each but cheaper than Ti and look nicer 8)
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When Mick F bought a tarpaulin you can forgive me for thinking he had a hole in his roof. This is a farmhouse near us, then and now
pictures. :(

We were slightly embarrassed as when we took the picture today our neighbour came out to check if we had a puncture. He was visiting the farmer having known him for years.

2011
https://goo.gl/maps/1Wnjzfdfi2GVY62b8

2021
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Well the Thomson Elite seat post and Lezyne bottle cages arrived,both shiny silver and they are far too nice to go on the Focus so I'll be putting them on the Lynskey 8)
The bottle cages are particularly nice 8)
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rjb wrote: 20 Oct 2021, 4:17pm When Mick F bought a tarpaulin you can forgive me for thinking he had a hole in his roof. This is a farmhouse near us, then and now
pictures. :(

We were slightly embarrassed as when we took the picture today our neighbour came out to check if we had a puncture. He was visiting the farmer having known him for years.

2011
https://goo.gl/maps/1Wnjzfdfi2GVY62b8

2021
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Are there no farming support charities to help him??

Cheers James
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I had a bit of a British Steel/Iron buy at the basically deserted (rain), car-boot sale today. I've been looking for a large vice for the shed for a while and found this Record 24 in OK nick, the seller kindly transported it the 7 miles back to Skem for me, I didn't think one bungee was quite enough to secure it on the rack (weighs about 50 odd lbs ).
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He also threw in a piece of cutlery with the deal for free. If I ever see this shape of Sheffield Stainless Steel knife (butter or dinner), I can't resist buying them, something about the shape of them has a timeless classic appeal to me. They are nice to use in the hand, and take a good edge. The older (higher carbon ?) is the best for sharpness ( third from top in the picture), or possibly extra chromium in the newer 'more stainless' knives makes them more resistant to sharpening, I don't know. It's a source of amazement to me that exactly the same shape knife was made by so many different Sheffield manufacturers, mostly with a Firth Stainless Steel mark on them, as well as the different Cutlers' names. There's an odd funky shaped outlier at the bottom of the picture. Six different makers in one picture....No doubt these were all in different folk's wedding canteens at one time. :(
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Today's maker: Herbert.M.Slater, Sheffield. Is there anyone who's worked in cutlery trade on here I wonder ?
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I've just got to find a bench sturdy enough to support the vice now....
edit; Photo' added showing the other makers
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Nice vice. A Biggie indeed.

I picked up several no1 and a number 2 vice if anyone wants one?

Cheers James
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@Colin54.
A very good friend of mine's Great and Grandfather were 'Little Mesters'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_mester
There were dozens of them in Sheffield making cutlery and knives back in the old days.I had a lock-knife made by her dad who only made them to order as a side-line as the trade was dying out by 1980s.I believe there are still a couple of small cutlery makers left in Sheffield.
There is a woodland trail in the Rivelin Valley area of Sheffield where you can see remains of many of the old pre-industrial revolution steel/cutlery makers alongside the little diverted water courses they made.

Thos.Firth and Sons was what is now known as Sheffield Forgemasters,recently bought by the M.O.D.Harry Brierly(accidently invented Stainless Steel) worked there.Brierly original worked and invented SS at the Stocksbridge Steel Mill when it was Samuel Fox's.
Firths was a massive cutlery maker in it's day.
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Shimano 105 (5800) hubs.
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25 meters of 10mm braid on braid rope.
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ncutler wrote: 25 Oct 2021, 11:19am rope tmp.JPG


25 meters of 10mm braid on braid rope.
Beautiful. I love rope and knotting.
Can you do eye splices in it? It is very satisfying.
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Can do ....... although not always as neat as the professionals
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