Feel like a manly man!

[cyberknight]

I built a flat pack shed on my own when the instructions clearly said you need two people , and yes its straight

 

[compo]

I am the resident spider catcher. I just pick them up 'cause I'm 'ard. I then kindly put them into the garden where no doubt they are back indoors in 5 minutes 'cause I'm soft.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I am the resident spider catcher. I just pick them up 'cause I'm 'ard. I then kindly put them into the garden where no doubt they are back indors in 5 minutes 'cause I'm soft.

All my manliness vanishes around spiders , as I'm an arachnophobe <<<shudder>>>
As for wheel truing, well my truing stand is sitting on a kitchen bench, mocking me. Must get around to using it. I even have wheel rims, spokes and hubs all ready to be assembled and trued. There are 2 long weekends coming up, so perhaps then.

 

[ComedyPilot]

On impulse I drove to Spa cycles in Harrogate and bought all the parts I would need to build a front dynamo wheel for my bike. I then went home and laid them all out on the carpet and set on building the wheel. Never having done it before I used some YouTube vids for reference.

6 months later I can truly say (touch wood) that wheel is the strongest/truest/smoothest rolling wheel I possess.

And if a complete muppet like me can do it, anyone can....

 

[ComedyPilot]

All my manliness vanishes around spiders , as I'm an arachnophobe <<<shudder>>>
As for wheel truing, well my truing stand is sitting on a kitchen bench, mocking me. Must get around to using it. I even have wheel rims, spokes and hubs all ready to be assembled and trued. There are 2 long weekends coming up, so perhaps then.

Just do it, it's so rewarding to do. Just take your time, do a step at a time and it will all come together. I did mine in an evening.

 

[Globalti]

I progressed from wheel trueing to wheel building by taping a new rim alongside the old and transferring the spokes over one by one. That felt quite manly.

I also own a chainsaw, which is the most manly of garden tools because it makes a lot of noise and looks dangerous, so you can order people loudly to "Stand back!" before going in and manfully dismantling entire trees. Then comes the splitting mawl, another devastating garden tool that creates visible mayhem.

I do my own plumbing (installed my own solar hot water panel) and can get a tyre back on with my fingers, as long as I have lubricated everything first with talc (unperfumed, obviously). However I do need tyre levers to get a tyre off, which makes me a little less manly than ColinJ.

 

[Big Nick]

Removed the leaky old kitchen tap and fitted a brand spankers new one yesterday..........beat my chest and roared like King Kong immediately after!!

 

[Globalti]

Congratulations.... but did you do it in a manly way? This means putting your head inside the cupboard while showing off your bottom and grunting with the effort of undoing the fittings, them emerging red-faced and sweating?

 

[Kies]

i washed up last night after my pack had devoured a chicken curry - that felt manly!!

 

[Dayvo]

I'm in the process of getting interested in whittling. After a quick search on the net, I happened upon this site:

http://www.artofmanliness.com/

Plenty of manly things to do there, although doing it in Manly in Australia is probably the ultimate.

 

[byegad]

I saw the title and thought:-
Yes, but where will he get one at this time of day?

It turns out that the thread is about wheel truing.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

[QUOTE 3012915, member: 1314"]Can't a woman build one then? #everydaysexism[/QUOTE]
Aye, a woman can ... not this one though ... not yet
#youcandoitwhenyoufollowmicklesinstructions

 

[marknotgeorge]

Welding is manly. Heat, bits of metal, safety gear, and when you get it right the sound of frying bacon...

 

[Andy_R]

I'm in the process of getting interested in whittling. After a quick search on the net, I happened upon this site:

http://www.artofmanliness.com/

Plenty of manly things to do there, although doing it in Manly in Australia is probably the ultimate.

If you're going to do that, then you need one of these pocket knives

 

[Fnaar]

I built a flat pack shed on my own when the instructions clearly said you need two people , and yes its straight

Yeah, but it isn't meant to be still flat