One of those bike fettling jobs you wish you had never started.

Oddly, perhaps, they were actually issued to us at junior school, but
banned at grammar school, where fountain pens were de rigeur. There
was an ongoing battle throughout my time there against felt-tip pens,
whose results were all but indistiguishable from 'proper' pens. And
when roller balls came out they swept the field.

 

I said average, you're one of the people that keeps it so high. And Auvache
of course.

--
Malc

Rusted and ropy.
Dog-eared old copy.
Vintage and classic,
or just plain Jurassic:
all words to describe me.

 

I do to. Much of what I had to write needed to go through duplciates, so
I bought a rollerball. I'm thinking it's about time for a matching
fountain pen, though.

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Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply)
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see.
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I doubt it.

 

Ha, so you ended up with smudged writing and your left hand covered in
ink?

It's no wonder the headmistress at my old primary school used to hit
me on the head whenever I wrote with my left hand, I thought she was
being a bitch but she was actually trying to save me from further
misery.

 

Oddly, my father manages to be left handed, use a fountain pen and
neither smudge, nor cover his hand in ink.

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Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3
Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply)
116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS GT 3.2 V6
Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see.
www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk

 

Quite so.

 

<sniff>

You do not see the innate beauty of flowing cursive script on a nicely
printed cheque, do you?

 

Err... you're going to have to buy a tin foil hat after 2018, granddad
;-)

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Very kind but wouldn't a cylinder designed for hyper retarding four pot
calipers rather overwhelm one smallish two pot MX job?

Anyway, I have a brake. Luckily I had recently acquired a complete spare
system (cylinder, line and caliper) off Ebay for the lad's[1] YZ85
because his had various issues, and had already swapped it. So I drilled
the head off the chewed up cap retaining screw, and pinched the master
cylinder off his original system.

I've only ever worked on SO Brembo or Grimeca systems before. I think I
prefer them to this Nissin or whatever. It took an age to get a system
full of fluid and the prospect of bleeding it. I see a Mityvac in my
future.

But it works. Annoyingly, there is still more drag then I would like,
though not binding as badly as it was. So I'll be ordering a caliper
seals kit for hopefully a full fix - perhaps I'll get to play with my
compressor. 350 Morinis were often fitted with the smaller bore 250
master cylinder, so I am hoping to get away with this one for a while.
In any case you only have to use the brakes in four places at Loton.

As to ink. When I first started at Grammar School we still had desks
with inkwells, and out first forays in to italic handwriting were with
scratchy old dip pens. Once to a reasonable standard arrangements were
made for us to purchase the school approved chunky Osmiroid fountain
pen. I kept it for years and used to sign work letters and statutory
notices with it until I lost it. These days I prefer a good fine roller
ball pen if to hand, though most of the time a Bic clone is pressed in
to service.
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Tell me about it.

I've just spent half a morning wrestling with two seized screws to get
the alloy console telltale lamp cover off my V11 Sport. The problem
was that half the paint had flaked off, so, in a fit of
over-enthusiasm, I decided to take it off and make a reasonable job of
repainting it rather than just slapping paint on in situ.

Three stainless screws retain it - how hard can it be? Well, very as
it happens, because two of the screws were rather more fondly attached
to the brass bushes they screw into than the bushes were to the
tell-tale lamp cluster plastic.

In order to get at the bushes I had to remove the clocks. One bolt
sheared off the moment I tried turning it. It's just a threaded
pillar, so fixable with some extra work.

Unfortunately, when removing the speedo, I forgot to remove the trip
reset knob, didn't I?

So that's another 'fixable with a bit of extra work' job.

Gah. Hamfisted cunts 'R' us.

 

Dyson ones were they?

 

So you're one of thos weirdies that kind of hooks their hand round the
pen? I did wonder why on earth people did that because on the face of
it, you're more likely to smudge previous writing.

Oh, so it doesn't smudge.

 

The Older Gentleman posted:

Send me a few and I'll let you know.

 

turby said:

heh heh

 

Yeah, surprised there isn't a creche

 

Same here - I feel your pain bro'

not kack handed though

 

For the grandchildren?

 

I still used ink at school (and do now) - and Jess did too (cartridges
though) and she's only recently left.

I notice Quink no longer claims it cleans the pen as it writes.

 

So do I and I'm an oik in these matters. My writing looks like a spastic
spider on rohypnol.

It was the same at my school and I'm younger than the pair of you.