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Finally managed to book & pay for a spot on a BikeSafe course. Waited months for a spot to open up, so I jumped on it as soon as the email came through.

 

New dual 21700 mod. One of the magnets has fallen out of mine and it keeps coming apart in my hands. Don't have the time to pee with it for now.



Two sets of these.



And two of these for the bike tools in the loft. All of the small annoying ones like chain link breakers, freewheel removers, crank installers and etc that I have to keep sodding moving around when I work up there.

 

Hope you enjoy it, I didn't find it that informative as I'd already read various roadcraft material etc. Never hurts to give it a go mind!

 

Probably looking to do an ERS course later this year, so wouldn't hurt to brush up a bit beforehand

 

I got dragged out onto jobs with my dad many times to do this. We always used a normal garden hose and a rubber mallet. Set it with the inlets at the top so it fills up, get a flow of water going through it then go up and down thwacking it with the mallet. It doesn't need to be hit very hard, but there's always sediment and little bits of loose metal in radiators. The amount of shite that used to come out of them was impressive, one we did about 1/3rd of the radiator's weight was black gunk. It heated up much more quickly after that.

 

I just bought a Noctua NH-D15 on ebay, and it's coming from the IOW. @David is that you?

 

You never know when you may need those modes

 

Nice, I do like the Olight stuff, but mainly from a variation on a theme sort of thing. My wife loves the little i3 and i5 AAA and AA lights and has been collecting a lot of the different variations on those. She has been getting VERY lucky on some of the prices from FB groups and even eBay.

I am a big fan of Sofirn for more of a user light and have been carrying one of the SC31 Pro models for a while over the winter and it has been awesome. That is a single 18650 light that puts out 2000lm on max setting. I also have the SP36 pro which has the same emitter as the 31, but 4 of them and runs on 3 x 18650 cells for 8000lm. I have been hanging my nose over their equivalent to that Olight, the IF30:



Which is a great big chunk of ridiculous silliness at 12000lm max output... I mean I have no need for it, the SP36 will already light up the street, but.... yeah, you know...

 

May as well jump in on the torch pr0n... my go-to is the Olight S2R Baton II, which I've had for a couple of years now and I think I've charged it three or four times. It's an incredible little torch and it's used virtually daily at this time of year.

 

Still loving my orange Olight Arkfeld

 

WTF is a "tactical button" on a torch?

 

This one has been my best Olight purchase so far. Normally I just go for plain black, but this green and gold on the Baton 4 in the Winter sale was just so nice:

 

Wtf would I do with a heatsink that won't fit in any of my SFF cases? Sell it on ebay, I suppose... but sad to say, not guilty, your honour.

 

Rad nail clippers bro!

 

Ticket for Skynet Wales (LAN party).

Haven't done that kind of thing in nigh on 20 years, and I don't think I've ever done a "properly organised" event. Bugger that "sleeping on a camp bed" business though; I'm too old for that rubbish, I'm damn well booking a local hotel.

Planning to try and get away with taking just the Steam Deck and a portable monitor (and maybe the MiSTer for some downtime). Need to do some more benchmarking with it.

 

And bought....

Begone shiny white bane of my life that hides beneath my TV like a spot ready to burst