What are your jeans doing today?

[julian-wolf]

That seems lovely, thanks for the idea. I'm used to using the rinds of parmesan to cook, e.g., garbanzo beans; I think by the same token it would be nice to throw in the skin & ends of the guanciale—after all, the cheese and the meat certainly work well together on their own.

I really like the asparagus idea, too, but the season's just ending here. Maybe next year!

[Duke Mantee]

When I make minestrone I usually throw in the last piece of parmesan (ie the rind) and any offcuts of pork/bacon - so the guanciale would be perfect

[JDelage]

On 6/3/2020 at 10:01 PM, julian-wolf said:

I'm still deciding how I'll use it

Look for Bobby Flay's Brussels sprout, potato, shallot, and pancetta dish. It's on the Food Network site. As I'm in Europe the site defaults to the UK version, which doesn't have the recipe, but if you enter those search terms into Google you'll find it on the US site. Just replace the pancetta with giancale. It's one of my favorite dishes...

Edited June 6, 2020 by JDelage

[Thanks_M8]

Talking brussel sprouts, throw em in a hot cast iron pan with the guanciale, fry them for a little bit, salt pepper on top and put 'em on the oven for au little while. Great dish!

[Ar_thor]

I got tired of waiting for my finger to heal so I taped it up with painters tape, a plastic bag and cracked on with the beach house. Walls and ceiling are getting close to finished now.

 

[Double 0 Soul]

I was waiting for EMS shipping to resume so i could order some Honjo mudguards and fit them before the shit weather comes in the autumn but i returned to work last week and things are slow af so i thought i might as well order/fit them now while ive got nowt to do..

It's pretty much impossible to find metal mudguards to fit a 26" track type tyre so i upgraded to some Rene Herse/Compass tyres, according to the data running low pressure supple tyres has less rolling resistance than running high pressure race slicks

They were mad difficult to seat correctly but 3hrs later with the help of some soapy water and replacing the swanky rim tape with cheap insulation tape built up on the shoulders i managed to pop them in, they ride well fast and comfy.

Honjo mudguards have been hand made in a small factory in the Sumida district of Tokyo since 1949 but like most metal mudguards they only come in 700c or 650b wheel size

Twin cassette deck packaging.. Dope!

..as you can see here, they're designed to fit a larger wheel.

..so with a bit of manipulation, i managed to re-radius them, this takes an age to fit them properly, by carefully opening the arch in places you can reduce the outer radius, most cracks/metal fatigue is caused by forcing the outside radius in with the stays, massaging/fitting before instalation is key to longevity

The clearences under the crown on the Surly forks are huge, perfect for fitting mudguards but a daruma bolt would be too short to hang even using a recessed brake nut as an extension, so i decided to cobble something up...thinking "why has nobody thought of this before"

I cut off a piece of extruded Aluminium bar

...and turned up a little spacer with an M6 hole through the middle in my l'ill Boxford lathe

..if you think Roy has a leaky roof, check mine out

I twatted a ster fangled (headset) nut into the underside of the head tube

Dropped the little aluminium spacer in onto a leather washer

..parted it off to length, and attached the mudguard

It looked great but then when i came to fit the wheel, the radius of the mudguard was on a different center to the wheel, the penny dropped, fuck! the angle of the head tube would have to project to the center of the hub for this to work out, fuck!! let down by basic engineering skills, it's a sign that i haven't been to work for the last 8 weeks dejected, i used a shitty L bracket instead to cover up the hole i had drilled.

I fancied fitting a mini Nitto rack to the front to help support the mudguard but at £140 they aint cheap so i ordered a spare pair of stays for a couple of hundred yen and got creative bending them into shape.

The re-radiusing has created a nice clean fender line, i hate to see gappy mudguards

Now they're shaped/fitted Ive taken them back off till the rains come.

Edited June 9, 2020 by Double 0 Soul

[Maynard Friedman]

Looks great Neal but I couldn’t understand a word of that tech-jargon, I thought I was reading a transcript of Robot Wars! You’ll have to tone it down a bit for a denim audience 

[Double 0 Soul]

Here you go Martin.. ive drawn you a diagram

..the radius of the wheel comes from the center of the hub but if you follow the angle at the center of the headtube where i dropped the spacer the imagined intersection point would be on a different center so the mudguard wouldn't be possitioned over the wheel.. Doh!

Edited June 9, 2020 by Double 0 Soul

[thedapperdane]

Brilliant. I was with you the entire way. Looks swank. 

[julian-wolf]

Those guards are beauts, and the tan sidewalls on the new tyres are really icing on the cake. I've thought about sourcing out a pair like that for my old Univega, but in the end I think it'd mean paying an extra $10 / tube for reduced traction & resilience, all in the name of aesthetics, which is a hard sell. I think Velo Orange is the company I'd be most likely to go with—any experience with them, by any chance? edit: Actually, looking back at their site now, I'm not even sure if they make the sizes I'd need…so much for that

Why not just grind your spacer down at an angle & put in a little wedge between the washer and the bolt head?

Edited June 10, 2020 by julian-wolf

[Duke Mantee]

@Double 0 Soul that’s my favourite ‘story’ post of all you’ve done - it’s great to see a bit of ingenuity (and no little skill) at work

[Double 0 Soul]

Thanks Mike

6 hours ago, julian-wolf said:

Those guards are beauts, and the tan sidewalls on the new tyres are really icing on the cake. I've thought about sourcing out a pair like that for my old Univega, but in the end I think it'd mean paying an extra $10 / tube for reduced traction & resilience, all in the name of aesthetics, which is a hard sell. I think Velo Orange is the company I'd be most likely to go with—any experience with them, by any chance? edit: Actually, looking back at their site now, I'm not even sure if they make the sizes I'd need…so much for that

Why not just grind your spacer down at an angle & put in a little wedge between the washer and the bolt head?

Ive got a little VO stem cap, it's a lovely little thing... i think Velo-Orange would be a great choice you have a bit more scope if you go for aluminum, i wanted black so my choice was narrowed down to the VO Zeppelin's or the Honjo Turtle, i went for the Honjo because they were deeper so pulling out the rim out would have a greater effect on the outside radius.

 

I like your thinking @julian-wolf, i had the same idea.. the spacer was long enough to cut 5mm off the end and make it into a wedge shaped washer

 

...sadly i had already parted it off down to length but i tried putting an angle on the end to compensate (nowt to lose) put the mudguard back on, nipped it up put the wheel on..still not quite right...this went on for quite some time, trial and error, the angle, being on the end of an 11mm surface.. even micro adjustments of 0.1° were having significant effects on the mudguard position...eventually i got it close enough so before i spent time making an angled washer i trialed it with a rubber washer which i trimmed down with a craft knife but when i nipped it up tight it kept pulling the mudguard to one side (imagine looking down at the wheel from your bars) it was anticlockwise to the wheel so with nothing to lock the spacer in position i ended up tapping a thread into it and securing with a bolt through the brake mounts, which when nipped up tight started to angle the mudguard again...at which point i just fucked it off, i want mudguards which i can easily bolt on/off/adjust without all this fanying around. Oh well!

[MJF9]

The weather forecast said sunshine; we got squally skies; turned out ideal actually

6 -7 mile walk up Pen-y-ghent (the lowest of Yorkshire’s ‘three peaks’) with family

Gets a little steep, with a scramble at the top, but navigated safely in 3-ish hours

My pictures don’t do the stunning views justice – they’re as dark as one of them there satanic mills

Then on to the Ribblehead Viaduct nearby, opened in 1875 to carry the Settle Carlisle railway and still active

Warning!!  I have more pics for the rest of the day out coming…

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

A full day  in the lab today. 

Edited June 23, 2020 by Hopethisoneisnttaken

[Elmer.Richard]

Roundabout Goods, TSG, Wesco

 

[MJF9]

@Elmer.Richard welcome!

A better place for your post here

 

[MJF9]

In other news...

Part 2 of my North Yorkshire day out escaping the house for a bit of fresh country air

A gem of a little waterfall called Scaleber Force hidden away in the woods - could have sat there all day listening to the relaxing sounds of water on rock

Completely staged triple denim pic staring into the falls

Then on to Skipton because it had the nearest chippy on the map.. though very nice setting for dinner by the canal 

Edited June 26, 2020 by MJF9

[Suitedupmon]

Back in the museum today to reacquaint myself with the photographs I have been writing about for the past six months... I'll be organizing a show around them set to open in January, although it seems that the exhibition will have to live online (so maybe you all can experience it). These platinum and carbon prints were made by a resident of Jersey City at the turn of the twentieth century. Most of them are toned with a pigment and mounted on decorative boards. In these works, atmosphere and painterliness are the predominate aesthetic concerns, and my phone photographs do not do them justice. Truly one of a kind objects in the pictorialist tradition.

 

Edited July 2, 2020 by Suitedupmon

[MJF9]

Visited Piece Hall today... quite an impressive building, built in 1779 as a fully enclosed trading venue for 'pieces' of cloth (phone pic doesn't do it any justice).  Has been restored for shopping, food events, concerts and whatnot (when allowed)

Edited July 4, 2020 by MJF9

[dau]

while the city itself is crowded with tourists, out-of-the-city museum-parks (finally open) are not so here we are. gbgs and kid get some fresh air

[Maynard Friedman]

Where is this dau - St Petersburg?

[dau]

8 minutes ago, Maynard Friedman said:

Where is this dau - St Petersburg?

yep

[Duke Mantee]

Beautiful city

[unders]

Not on a par with Arthur’s cabin build and 00’s souped up shed, but the father-in-law and I stretched our flat pack skills to the limit putting up this bad boy. 

Timed to perfection just as outdoor play areas opened in England this week 

Super rep point to the first of you that spotted the hidden octopus!

 

Edited July 11, 2020 by unders

[Double 0 Soul]

2 hours ago, unders said:

Not on a par with Arthur’s cabin build and 00’s souped up shed
 

Speaking of which.. ckeck out how much that clematis has grown in the last few weeks

This week my Junky 46's have been removing 100's of years worth of paint from my stonework before i start restoring my sash windows

Tune in..in a few weeks time for some middle-class cosplay when my Farrow & Ball order arrives

[Duke Mantee]

6 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

 

Tune in..in a few weeks time for some middle-class cosplay when my Farrow & Ball order arrives

Loved my Farrow & Ball paint - it made me a better man

[Double 0 Soul]

9 minutes ago, Duke Mantee said:

Loved my Farrow & Ball paint - it made me a better man

It's a shame the colours are so damn lovely, because Farrow & Ball makes me fucking cringe!

It's like the Waitrose of the paint world.. the food is lovely but the folks who shop there are just awful..

[fre-co]

Haha. I used F&B on my window frames - it barely lasted 3 years before peeling and cracking. I hope you are going full gloss bro. 

[Double 0 Soul]

1 minute ago, fre-co said:

Haha. I used F&B on my window frames - it barely lasted 3 years before peeling and cracking. I hope you are going full gloss bro. 

Bollocks, eggshell

[fre-co]

Are you taking the frames back to the timber? I wasn’t all that fastidious about that - especially in the moulding and I hate working up ladders, so I was shitting myself all the way through. I’m sure your prep will be much better. I rubbed down and scraped all the flaky shit out then primed, undercoat and 2 coats of f&b.
But I feel like the modern eggshell is not as tough as oil based.