Tony Harrison Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 I just want it done! I know exactly how you feel. In October last year I bought a motorbike as a project, and it's only just nearing completion. I waited two months to sort out some registration documents, I had someone working on new wheels for a month before saying oh actually I don't have time to finish what you wanted (turned out he'd not really done much for several weeks, although it was a big help what he did do). I had things not arrive in the post, engine work take weeks longer than planned. Right now I have a few more bits to get, but it has been worth the wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 I can see a common theme there... relying on other people. Ali, surely you're more than capable of sorting the bearings out in the newly painted frame?! A vice and socket set should see that sorted wouldn't it? Sounds pretty crap about the paint though- if it's chipped from storage that doesn't even sound like proper powdercoating with the paint baked on anyway... Name and shame! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali C Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 two issues, I neither have a vice nor a socket set! If Willy was open I can just use his services or he'll let me use his tools and I can see his shop from my kitchen window, if he wasn't on holiday I'd have had this sorted last friday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 A general tool store type place would sell you those bits for like £30 though- I'd rather do that than wait until Friday for some numpty LBS to do it (probably poorly)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali C Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 yeah I'm not getting that same shop to do it, I don't really wanna spend £30 on it either, maybe if I had an actual work area it wouldn't be so bad but I do all my bike maintenance in my bedroom which isn't huge, I don't even have a desk big enough to rest frame parts on to hammer against Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 D'oh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Booth Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 Pinkbike locally who was a professional powder coater by trade who offered a full acid dip, masking and two colours with a lacquer used by Mercedes which is meant to be incredibly tough, he said he'd send me pictures on the process and it would take a few days..... Dudes a chump. Mercedes will use no different lacquer to any other manufacturer that buys in bulk for cost, if anything it'll be worse than that found on any Kia/Hyundai, big manufacturers are lying in Kia's wake when it comes to paint depth at the minute. Why the need to acid dip anyway? If he had anything about him literally 20 minutes with a 600grit abrasive and the frame would be ready for powder coat. If I'd have known Ali I'd have helped you out bud . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali C Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 He's Buedoggie1 on pinkbike. I don't think he's purposely done a shit job, I genuinely believe his mother in law died and then he did bit of a rushed job. He seemed really enthusiastic when I met him and showed me other stuff he's sprayed (including a santacruz) which seemed great. I'm not mad at him, but I'm definitely gonna have to put some protective tape on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 Couldn't you potentially make a kind of press type thing out of a threaded bar and some washers/nuts? Or does that system not really f**k with that? I would say you could try doing it out on the balcony, but knowing your... er... 'mood swings' when building bikes in the past having the potential to just loft a bike off the top of a building might not be the best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali C Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 I actually tried the threaded bar method, ended up with some pretty interesting bearing angles! Not good I raged, but nothing got thrown or broken which is good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 Ah, similar thing to using that f**king Park headset tool without the wedges in I guess? If it's anything like that then slow and steady definitely wins that race, but if your cups aren't ideally cleaned and stuff it might not work too well regardless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartMini Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 been smashing the weights massivly recently... would be good to actually feel good about myself.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 Your ex will love to read that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartMini Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 Your ex will love to read that doubt she gives a toss mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 Probably a bit deep for TF, this, but I need to dump about it and some here will know I use this place to dump some stuff I can't put anywhere else. Feel free to ignore. I've never met my Dad's Mum, and for a long time I didn't know whether she was even alive. Basically my Dad's side of the family have been very much broken up for a long time, my Dad had a tough time growing up and I've not heard much about them growing up. During many a drinking session with my old man that sort of stuff comes up and we hypothesise about how they must feel about never meeting their grandchildren and whatnot. My Dad has always said he'd never really care if his Mum died, because they've never been close, and I've felt the same - you can't miss something you've never known. On top of that I had the world best grandparents on my Mums side, although I lost my Nan 15 years ago. Turns out that my Dad's Mum is alive, but she's dying. She's got back in touch with my Dad and he's been to see her. Apparently she's now a very nice old lady. I know he's been putting off telling me, because I heard through my sister. He finally got round to it tonight, and asked me to go see her on Thursday. I've said no, because my thoughts on the situation haven't changed. I'm not really angry, or asking a question. I guess I'm just venting it out because I don't actually know how to feel. I think that despite always agreeing about not really needing her in our lives, my Dad has decided to see his mother on her death bed. I don't deny him that, obviously, because he's human, but I don't think I'm in the wrong to say no. I have a feeling I might feel some repercussions from that some time though, so I'm tempted to go just to save the "you didn't go see a dying woman" conversations of the future. Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haydon_peter Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 Regret the things you did, not the things you didn't do. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewEH1 Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 (edited) -snip- You're not right, nor are you wrong. To be honest she shouldn't have waited until her death bed to try to try to get in touch with her son or grandchildren. If it was me, I'd probably go. To what end I'm not sure but it probably seems like the correct thing to do, plus if your father and sister are going it would be a shame, perhaps, to be the only one not to have met her. Edited May 12, 2015 by AndrewEH1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolfa Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 A very personal thing of course, but I think I'd have to go in your situation, more out of curiosity than any kind of family loyalty though. Although it would be some awkward as shit meeting going to meet a dying woman you have no real emotional connection to. I dunno. I think I'd still go, if just to see what she looks like (albeit not in her best shape...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 I guess to some degree it depends what she did to cause the split. Was she just a nasty person in which case f**k her (not literally, this isn't the Tinder thread) or was she a passenger in some stupid family fight and was too proud or whatever to get in touch sooner. I think knowing that would make it easier for me to decide whether I'd want to go and see her or specifically not go and make sure she knows that you don't want to go so she knows how badly she f**ked up in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamR28 Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 Go and see her. It will put your mind at ease, and you won't feel anything for her anyway, it will just be a random old lady. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 Another vote for go. Yep, there's no current connection other than blood and no emotional history etc, but you never know she could be kinda cool now and if giving up a couple of hours of your time can make some of her last a little less shit then it's a small price to see to find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 When I wrote that out I told myself I'd go with the consensus, so I'm going to see her Thursday. Cheers guys 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartMini Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 Woke up this morning with a tremor in my right hand. Work as an IT Technician is going to be fun today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forteh Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 Woke up this morning with a tremor in my right hand. Work as an IT Technician is going to be fun today Blimey 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 Damn it, you beat me to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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