Tea? (Part 1)

[TheDoctor]

It is only fair to say you will be like a winner of a Willy Wonker Golden Ticket when you get to Astrium, bright eyed and bushy tailed, etc. And who can blame you! I can imagine the new carbon beast will have to take second place too!

Yes and no. It's a slightly shorter working week, and I won't be spending an hour each day on the A1. While Astrium is only a mile from my house, the trip back could be substantially longer...
And I can get every Friday afternoon off with flexitime.
It's all good.

Damn, Mrs. tdr1nka has spotted oil on the carpet from where I added new links to my trike chain(it's a pig of a job BTW), now I have to scrub the carpet with washing liquid and a toothbrush!

Swarfega is better for getting chain oil out. Voice of experience...

 

[tdr1nka]

I am imagining protests in ancient Greece where whole dissident villages ran after the torch blowing on it really hard!!

IMO the Olympic torch is itself run on gas, not unlike a blowtorch or cigarette lighter. A large bucket of sand ought to extinguish it easily enough. And nice to see MTB cops doing something for a change?!?

 

[tdr1nka]

Swarfega readily available at the towers so I'll try that instead.
Better do it now tho as Mrs. tdr1inka keeps coming in and doing the *ahem* thing that means I need to stop nattering and sort out the oil stains.

 

[TheDoctor]

Go on then. Put some newspaper down next time, mmmkay?

 

[tdr1nka]

All done! Thanks for the swarfega tip!

I'll admit that I didn't have paper down, but I do use 2 shallow cardboard trays that the cat food tins come in and they catch any drips etc.
What happened on this occasion was I lost the end of the 2 1/2 meter trike chain and it slipped off the cogs, out of the rear mech and what wasn't caught by the tray went on the carpet.

Getting that put back together was a nightmare, must make a jig to hold both ends of the separated chain in future!

More tea?

 

[TheDoctor]

All done! Thanks for the swarfega tip!

Of course, you've now got two bits of very clean carpet that'll stand out...

I'll admit that I didn't have paper down, but I do use 2 shallow cardboard trays that the cat food tins come in and they catch any drips etc.
What happened on this occasion was I lost the end of the 2 1/2 meter trike chain and it slipped off the cogs, out of the rear mech and what wasn't caught by the tray went on the carpet.

Messy...

Getting that put back together was a nightmare, must make a jig to hold both ends of the separated chain in future!

Got a wire coathanger? Snip a short length out, and bend the two ends over, so it can hook into the two ends of the chain and hold the chain together. Not seen your trike, but I'd have thought that should work.

Love a brew cheers!

 

[gbb]

I am imagining protests in ancient Greece where whole dissident villages ran after the torch blowing on it really hard!!

IMO the Olympic torch is itself run on gas, not unlike a blowtorch or cigarette lighter. A large bucket of sand ought to extinguish it easily enough. And nice to see MTB cops doing something for a change?!?

Not sure, but i think the material they use is in the torch is Magnesium.....remember those days in the school science classes....not sure if magnesium can burn underwater. You could try weeing on it...just for a laugh.

 

[Speicher]

Yes, tea please.

I am considering making some flapjacks this afternoon, using the recipes in a fred a week ago or so.

The decorator is very busy, and he is also finishing off all the tiddly fiddley bits from other workmen. I have thanked him most kindly for that. For instance, after some of the walls were plastered, some electriccity points had to be moved , so repairs were needed to "new" walls, and the caulking was not done at the right stage .
I would do these things myself, but am not currently agile enough so to do.

 

[gbb]

Yes, tea please.

I am considering making some flapjacks this afternoon, using the recipes in a fred a week ago or so.

The decorator is very busy, and he is also finishing off all the tiddly fiddley bits from other workmen. I have thanked him most kindly for that. For instance, after some of the walls were plastered, some electriccity points had to be moved , so repairs were needed to "new" walls, and the caulking was not done at the right stage .
I would do these things myself, but am not currently agile enough so to do.

He appears very helpful, that makes me suspicious . You sure he's not on daywork rate.

 

[Arch]

Not sure, but i think the material they use is in the torch is Magnesium.....remember those days in the school science classes....not sure if magnesium can burn underwater. You could try weeing on it...just for a laugh.

I think if it was magnesium, everyone watching would have to wear sunglasses. From the flame, it looks like some sort of gas thing, like a bunsen burner with the hole... *can't remember if it was open or closed that gave yellow flame*

 

[tdr1nka]

Got a wire coathanger? Snip a short length out, and bend the two ends over, so it can hook into the two ends of the chain and hold the chain together. Not seen your trike, but I'd have thought that should work.

I had anchored one end of the chain to the front mech using a cable tie
and the other end just had a cable tie looped thru so I could hold it easily.
Needless to say when the chain slipped out of my grasp it shot off, cable tie and all, down the chain tube/guard and so had to be threaded back thru again.

 

[Milo]

Well nipped to the hospital its infected so got some anti biotics and i have to go in tommorow.
Silly me hay ho.

 

[tdr1nka]

That'll learn ya milo@.

Good thing it wasn't in yer eyes, eh?

Haven't asked, how's your Grandad doin?

Tea?

 

[Milo]

Seems well but he has the hospital tommorow not sure if he has to start chemo yet.

 

[tdr1nka]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7327079.stm

For those interested in how they keep the Olympic flame alight!