What did you do today?

[Airehead]

I do not feel like I have been. Dry productive. 

[Kzoo]

Built a scaffold to climb to the peak of my roof to fix a shingle that had a nail pop under it.  While I had the ladder out I cleaned several gutters.  Then I had to take the scaffolding apart and store the lumber.  Then I had to clean the mess(s) I made from the gutters.

[BR46]

Went for a motorcycle ride, looked at cool motorcycles and some cars ( I like the motorcycles better) and did some work in the garage. 

[Longjohn ★]

Moved some wood to the shed and stacked it, trimmed some branches that were in the way on some pine trees and burned them. Loaded my bike in the car in case we have some decent weather tomorrow.

and filled a big contractor trash bag with junk from the garage including two perfectly good cordless drills with dead batteries. (I still have a cordless drill with three good batteries)

[Further]

Piddled in the shop and went for a walk 

Made shrimp, broccoli & noodles for dinner 

I sure appreciate my daughter being here to help with Mrs 

[maddmaxx ★]

I stood up long enough to grill hamburgers. 

[petitepedal ★]

Take the dogs out, bag the poop, feed the dogs..showered and went for brunch. More pee & poop, a nap..doggie play watching some Vuelta, reading Louise Penny.."The cruelest month"

[ChrisL]

Did the Mammoth Gran Fondo 42 mile route.  Took the missus to the main lodge & got a sweat shirt for CJ & one for me.

[TrentonMakes]

I woke up too early, worked for an hour. 

Made breakfast (waffles).

Went for a great ride on a beautiful morning. 

Had kind of a lazy afternoon, dozed on the couch a little. 

Went shopping and made dinner (burgers).

Now watching the recap of today's Vuelta stage, and later I think we will watch the BattleBots final. 

[Rattlecan ★]

Did some finishing up work on the leg extensions on the camper trailer beds. I had to tack three inches (or was it 4) onto them to make room for the boxes we pack our gear in to go underneath.

The extensions were getting a bit wobbly so I braced them with some steel strong ties.

Also did a bike repair for a guy. Was done with all that by lunch time and was feeling pretty good.

Went downhill this afternoon though so mostly just rested 

[Airehead]

1 minute ago, Rattlecan said:

Did some finishing up work on the leg extensions on the camper trailer beds. I had to tack three inches (or was it 4) onto them to make room for the boxes we pack our gear in to go underneath.

The extensions were getting a bit wobbly so I braced them with some steel strong ties.

Also did a bike repair for a guy. Was done with all that by lunch time and was feeling pretty good.

Went downhill this afternoon though so mostly just rested 

Rest more than you think you need to. 

[team scooter]

Went for a day drive up towards Wisconsin Dells. Got lost on some curvy roads. Checked out a few car dealers, a few antique/crafty stores, had lunch at a brewery pub, then zig zagged back home.  

https://tumbledrock.com/

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

Slept in (7:30) had coffee and a breakfast burrito. Went to the grocery store and loaded up. Went home and put the groceries away. Ate lunch. Cut the front yard, cut the back yard. Went to Wegmans for French baguettes. Made shrimp stock then cooked dinner and drank a few beers. Cleaned up the mess. Wo7 has not been feeling well so she is sleeping lots. Stomach issues with a possible fever. She doesn’t think it’s Covid due to it being her stomach. 

[Ralphie ★]

Mowed the lawn, walked the dawg.  Had 36 year old toilets replaced this morning along with the 36 year old shutoff valves and a leaky faucet. 

And picked a boatload of orange cherry tomatoes.  Will foist some off on the daughters when we see them tomorrow.

[Square Wheels]

Packed and gave lots of stuff away.

[BuffJim]

Hung out with my daughter, and shopped for and cooked food 

[Airehead]

3 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

Packed and gave lots of stuff away.

It feels good to give stuff away. 

[Square Wheels]

1 minute ago, Airehead said:

It feels good to give stuff away. 

It does, one more load of tools, a band saw, a compressor, and a few odds and ends - brother in law on Monday.  Plus we put lots of stuff out to the curb, all gone.

[Longjohn ★]

1 hour ago, Philander Seabury said:

Had 36 year old toilets replaced this morning along with the 36 year old shutoff valves and a leaky faucet. 

Had them replaced that sounds like you paid someone to do it for you. What did that cost? Did you hire a plumber or a handyman? I hear how much plumbers charge and can’t believe it. It’ snot rocket surgery. I fixed some plumbing problems for my sister in law last week. I didn’t get fancy because where she lives has been sold and she already has her new apartment. If I was her I would have just moved into the new apartment. She has lived 35 years in the old apartment and doesn’t want to leave.

[JerrySTL ★]

Fiftieth year high school reunion. About 50% showed. Some I haven't seen in 50 years as I joined the US Air Force after graduating. Great fun.

[Wilbur ★]

Replaced the Kitchen sink, waste disposal and faucet.  Went to my boss's wife's b-day party at their sons brewpub. 

[Airehead]

2 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

Replaced the Kitchen sink, waste disposal and faucet.  Went to my boss's wife's b-day party at their sons brewpub. 

You have replaced pretty much the entire house. 

[Longjohn ★]

9 minutes ago, JerrySTL said:

Fiftieth year high school reunion. About 50% showed. Some I haven't seen in 50 years as I joined the US Air Force after graduating. Great fun.

50% at the fiftieth is pretty good percentage. I think we had maybe 25% at most but they brought their spouses so it was still a bunch of old people.

[Wilbur ★]

1 minute ago, Airehead said:

You have replaced pretty much the entire house. 

At the pace my wife prefers because now she can start back at the beginning.   I told her she is reducing the square footage with paint. 

[Longjohn ★]

I backwashes the pool filter today. I should have just closed the pool down for the year. Nobody swims in it anymore since my son moved to Ohio.

[Kirby]

Took a friend to lunch for a belated birthday lunch.  it was about a 90 minute drive there and longer on the way home due to traffic.

[Ralphie ★]

1 hour ago, Longjohn said:

Had them replaced that sounds like you paid someone to do it for you. What did that cost? Did you hire a plumber or a handyman? I hear how much plumbers charge and can’t believe it. It’ snot rocket surgery. I fixed some plumbing problems for my sister in law last week. I didn’t get fancy because where she lives has been sold and she already has her new apartment. If I was her I would have just moved into the new apartment. She has lived 35 years in the old apartment and doesn’t want to leave.

I'm gonna have to take the fifth here because like the Carmax commercials I am embarrassed so I am hiding in a bush.

It was a complicated case, but at least the guy did it in a very small fraction of the time it would have taken me.

I am not a big DIYer and my motto is discretion is the better part of valor. My last big plumbing job was I actually did replace our garbage disposal the last time, even after watching a professional plumber struggle mightily with the first one!  Let's just say after that I developed a little bit of a plumbing phobia.  I have a guy who offered to do it for me free, but I feel bad exploiting him, in part because he is older, around 70 or so, but I think he actually does love doing plumbing.  What a dumbass I am sometimes!  The part I was snot comfortable doing was replacing the frozen shutoff valves for the bathroom sinks and toilets.  Sure, that was snot absolutely necessary, it works fine to just shutoff the whole house water, but I kept picturing a leak where having a local shutoff would save a big flood.

On a side note, I have no idea why the 36 year old builder-grade toilets started taking 3-4 times to fully flush #2.  I'm pretty sure my mom's toilets are even older, and they don't have that problem.  Everything I read said to suspect the drain, but the new toilets flush perfectly.

[groupw]

2 weeks of travel during monsoon season means I had some weeds to pick this morning! It was a cool morning at least!  Watched F1 qualifying then rode to the gym. Tightened the alternator belt on the Miata. Then just watched some college football. Eldest daughter came over to watch the Husker game

[Shu Fang Bastard ★]

I bought firewood early in the morning.  Tude and I have had fires out back alot this summer.

Tude and I also went to a country store.  She bought a rose bush for $5.  I bought Ylva some dog food since it was 20% off; the place had a sale.

I also told my Mac Mini how much I love it.

Couch

[Zephyr]

Located and recovered the people I was looking for, recovered the sunken canoe, met with the family to answer any questions they had and packed up to travel to a different lake for a different file tomorrow

[dinneR ★]

1 hour ago, Zephyr said:

Located and recovered the people I was looking for, recovered the sunken canoe, met with the family to answer any questions they had and packed up to travel to a different lake for a different file tomorrow

Maybe you could help out here

https://buckrail.com/ttsar-suspend-search-while-fromont-swimmer-remains-missing/

[dinneR ★]

I went for a hike with a friend I had not seen in 30 years

[BR46]

13 hours ago, team scooter said:

Went for a day drive up towards Wisconsin Dells. Got lost on some curvy roads. Checked out a few car dealers, a few antique/crafty stores, had lunch at a brewery pub, then zig zagged back home.  

https://tumbledrock.com/

Did you go hiking at Devils Lake?

Did you stop at the Driftless Glen Distillery for a flight? 

[team scooter]

20 minutes ago, BR46 said:

Did you go hiking at Devils Lake?

Did you stop at the Driftless Glen Distillery for a flight? 

The preserve was packed, even though it was drizzling rain. Mrs did pick up a bottle of wine from one of the local wineries at the Ski Hi orchard store. Along with some apple cider donuts for me, of course.  

https://www.skihifruitfarm.com/

[Razors Edge ★]

Went for a bike ride with my buddy up on Skyline Drive (an @Old No. 7 favorite), and did this:

      

Now we find out how good their "lifetime warranty" really is

[bikeman564™]

I biked, and relaxed

[Zephyr]

8 hours ago, dinneR said:

Maybe you could help out here

https://buckrail.com/ttsar-suspend-search-while-fromont-swimmer-remains-missing/

We could do that, no problem.  The side scan towed they are talking about is the tool for that job.  An ROV is not a great search tool.  The AUV they want could work too, but fancier sometimes means more things that can break.

[Dirtyhip]

Mountainbike ride with family and friends, some kitchen chores, and then I made a tri tip for dinner with homegrown potatoes and some broccoli.  Today, more mountainbiking and who knows what else.

[Rattlecan ★]

23 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Went for a bike ride with my buddy up on Skyline Drive (an @Old No. 7 favorite), and did this:

      

Now we find out how good their "lifetime warranty" really is

Did that wheel come from Zipp with the Power Tap hub or was it a custom build?

I know Zipp likes their radial lacing on the drive side with straight pull spokes but it makes absolutely no sense to do it with J bend spokes all heads out because it exacerbates the bracing angle disparity and hence the left/right tension imbalance.

All that to say that low tension on the non drive side could have contributed to the broken elbow due to stress cycles.

I believe that particular rim requires oval nipple washers to distribute the load a bit. If it was not built by Zipp perhaps they were omitted and in that case you would probably be on your own.

Did the rim damage and broken elbow happen in the same event?

[Razors Edge ★]

Just now, Rattlecan said:

Did that wheel come from Zipp with the Power Tap hub or was it a custom build?

I know Zipp likes their radial lacing on the drive side with straight pull spokes but it makes absolutely no sense to do it with J bend spokes all heads out because it exacerbates the bracing angle disparity and hence the left/right tension imbalance.

All that to say that low tension on the non drive side could have contributed to the broken elbow due to stress cycles.

I believe that particular rim requires oval nipple washers to distribute the load a bit. If it was not built by Zipp perhaps they were omitted and in that case you would probably be on your own.

Did the rim damage and broken elbow happen in the same event?

I'll be taking it to the shop that built the wheel and seeing what their answers are.  But regarding the "event", we were riding along going up a hill and I shifted gears, and I heard a "boink" and said to the guy I was with, "that was a weird sound" but wrote it off as a missed/slow shift.  Continued the ride - many ups and downs - and only noticed when I put the bike on the rear rack that the wheel wouldn't spin and the spoke was broken. Then my buddy noticed the rim was broken too.

[Rattlecan ★]

2 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

I'll be taking it to the shop that built the wheel and seeing what their answers are.  But regarding the "event", we were riding along going up a hill and I shifted gears, and I heard a "boink" and said to the guy I was with, "that was a weird sound" but wrote it off as a missed/slow shift.  Continued the ride - many ups and downs - and only noticed when I put the bike on the rear rack that the wheel wouldn't spin and the spoke was broken. Then my buddy noticed the rim was broken too.

Well if they rebuild it with a new rim I suggest 2x both sides assuming it is a 24 spoke wheel or they could do radial on the non drive side all heads out and improve the tension disparity.

I would definitely never build it the way it is.

[goldendesign]

The family bike ride to the park before the afternoon rains got us.

[Square Wheels]

Packed

Brought a carload of stuff for donation

Packed

Got more boxes

Packed

[shootingstar]

Running around packing stuff

Went to airport after good-byes.

Was at airport for 2 hrs... then stretched to an extra hr. because mechanics had to change a plane tire.

Took transit bus home from airport... prairie city now has wildfire smoke from British Columbia drifting about.

[Wilbur ★]

18 minutes ago, shootingstar said:

Running around packing stuff

Went to airport after good-byes.

Was at airport for 2 hrs... then stretched to an extra hr. because mechanics had to change a plane tire.

Took transit bus home from airport... prairie city now has wildfire smoke from British Columbia drifting about.

What? No visit? 

[BR46]

Rebuilt a transmission on a friend's sidecar.......he is the competition and I gave him some of my own spair parts. 

[Wilbur ★]

2 minutes ago, BR46 said:

Rebuilt a transmission on a friend's sidecar.......he is the compation and I gave him some of my own spair parts. 

Its like you racers have your own language.

[BR46]

33 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

Its like you racers have your own language.

Dam auto correct 

[Razors Edge ★]

On 9/11/2022 at 10:22 AM, Rattlecan said:

Well if they rebuild it with a new rim I suggest 2x both sides assuming it is a 24 spoke wheel or they could do radial on the non drive side all heads out and improve the tension disparity.

I would definitely never build it the way it is.

Wheels are from 2010 or so. Came with 2yr warranty (new Zipps claim lifetime for post 2021 wheels).  My LBS will talk to the SRAM rep and see if they offer anything - discount on new rim or the like - but I'm not holding my breath on getting anything other than maybe a 10% discount sort of thing.  At this point, I'm fine running with my #2 wheel set for a while.  I'll see what pops up - not even sure how common or easy it is to get standard rim brake rims anymore 

[Longjohn ★]

On 9/11/2022 at 9:54 AM, Zephyr said:

We could do that, no problem.  The side scan towed they are talking about is the tool for that job.  An ROV is not a great search tool.  The AUV they want could work too, but fancier sometimes means more things that can break.

I would think a side scan frog would work better. They are better swimmers than the side scan toads.