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Katie Moorfoot and the Falcons
(129 posts)- Started 3 years ago by I were right about that saddle
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@chdot
I think it has worked. Hardest part around the nose where the saddle deviates most from flatness. The leather was an off-cut from a very high quality piece. Got it from a jewellers in Dudley. For that reason it is very supple and has behaved very well. Would have been impossible without the soaking. I'm hoping the dents left by the clothes pegs sort themselves out...
@gembo
Like Repair Shop in that I am shamelessly aiming to make my friend cry. Unlike Repair Shop in that there is no Jay Blades-alike wandering round in an immaculate leather apron saying 'Awight mate I'll get them ordered and leave you to crack on yeah?'. I wish there was.
I will make sure the pics of this bike get to Hugh, our friend who got his mum's bike butchered by the Metal Guy on Repair Shop. Will pitch for an Intervention to do that bike properly in return for the loan of their house for a week.
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IWARTS: King of saddle restoration.
https://twitter.com/overlandertheb1/status/1293872139519623168/photo/1
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Does look smooth
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Katie is back from the painters. She is gorgeous. Imagine the first blue in the sky after dawn in the hills. Cloudy, pale, iridescent.
My mate's gonna cry for sure. Off to Vistaprint for the stickers. (Purists may object but their stuff is very fine.)
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Any photos of the frame?
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“Off to Vistaprint for the stickers“
One offs?
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@gembo
Patience, Grasshopper.
@chdot
Yes, personalised one-offs. Original head tube badge off Ebay and then custom top and down tube stickers. The frame as was had hideous 'graphic design' 80s Falcon decals and a huge City Cycles sticker. Not beautiful at all.
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Wow @iwrats You we’re right about that saddle!
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“Yes, personalised one-offs.“
Interesting, couldn’t see on their site.
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@daisydaisy
It was a fluke I reckon but thanks!
@chdot
I used the transparent car door sticker option for the SUNLIT Uplander which is powder coated.
https://www.vistaprint.co.uk/signs-posters/car-door-decals?
Worked so well I will stick with it. You need to use the chat function to get them to make the background of your jpeg transparent but they are lovely and it is free.
Was chatting with Sabrine in Tunisia in French last night. Suspect she has a degree in graphic design and is certainly trilingual.
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Ta!
Presume you put a variety of decals on the same sheet?
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Yes. The 20x20cm sheet is plenty enough. The one thing to watch is the resolution of your jpeg when you export it from whatever editor you use. Minimum 300dpi, can be quite tricky to set in Powerpoint and other MS applications.
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You need to use the chat function to get them to make the background of your jpeg transparent but they are lovely and it is free.
Would you not just send them a PNG with the alpha channel set to zero? EPS might be more useful though perhaps.
I've never used Vistaprint, but would be interested to know if they can do cut-out lettering? @laidback previously arranged the lettering on the side of the torpedo and also the logo on my Lightning.
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@Arrellcat
I tried all sorts for the SUNLIT Uplander. I did the lettering in Corel Painter which has all kindsa file formats with transparent canvas layers. But they wouldn't load into Vistaprint's system. The version I have is pre-png.
So for sure if you can do that on a .png then it may well work. Cut out lettering you'll need to ask them about. Their customer service is excellent.
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They seem to be printing it onto white vinyl by default so the background colour is a little irrelevant. They have a window sticker option too, could that be what customer service gave you IWRATS?
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@acsimpson
Second option down is Material: Clear or Opaque.
Problem is getting your image background similarly transparent. Customer service people very sharp - I have great confidence the product will be correct and if it isn't they'll fix it for free.
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Aha, I missed that one.
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Nae bother.
Just bought this too;
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Just did surgery on @wingpig's hubs' dust seals. They had oddly expanded over the years and no longer fitted in their metal carriers. Scalpel cut, fit them in with an overlap, scalpel off the excess, drop of superglue. Sorted.
I can now begin the build phase. Stand by.
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Careful with superglue can get everywhere
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Yeah I have hard fingertips now. It's OK.
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lost a fingernail back in early july while replacing a shed roof, hanging over the side to nail down the eaves instead of repositioning the ladder and doing it efficiently from below
anyway only three nails to go and WHACK that was it, game over for the fingernail
its been fascinating watching the new one slowly bed in, had my doubts that it would even happen, but its about half way there now
the key is to keep the exposed nail bed lubricated, don't let it dry out for long
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@bax San -
Right smack dab in the middle of town
I found a paradise that’s trouble proof
And if that world starts getting you down
There’s room enough for two - up on the roofPosted 3 years ago # -
Brother bax, I am keen to know the correct lubricant for nail beds.
I do like a high roof.
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3 in 1 came up when I googled. Careful how you do that though
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I've got the VPN on. The Feds will never get me.
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Is the VPN as good as the MPS mkII?
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correct lubricant for nail beds
petroleum jelly is recommended, but E45 cream will suffice
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Ah @bax San I will go Flaming Lips now on Spotify. If I cannot find Camille O’Sullivan singing Cave’s Love Letter
Just back from the garage roof. There is a design flaw in the little drain guard. Blocked due to heavy rain causing wee bits of moss to turn to mush and block it. I need to get up on that roof daily. And this is before the leaves start falling.
What a summer it has been.
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