Early Risers.

[Ozexpatriate]

9 hours ago, BSW01 said:

Strictly speaking, HMS Prince Of Wales the battle ship, HMS Repulse was a battle cruiser. 

Ultimately a distinction without a difference when subjected to unescorted aerial attack with torpedoes and bombs.

[woodenhead]

@polybear My dentist, despite being qualified for implants, suggested most people live with the gaps.

 

I went through the options before I even stepped in to the dentist's car park let alone chair, no implants, I don't think I will get any benefit as I think they will encourage the other teeth to shatter.

 

A bridge is out when the teeth either side are already in a state and a single tooth denture may be more trouble than it is worth.

 

So at the moment I am going with a gap on either side and see how I do, luckily I am a man of a soft diet already, too many lost bits of teeth from hard crisps and definitely no crackling.

 

My dentist is very good, she knows how to deal with anxious elephants like myself.

[Ozexpatriate]

1 hour ago, woodenhead said:

A lifetime of fear and anxiety has left my body

Glad to hear it. Modern dentistry is quite magnificent compared with that of half a century ago.

 

Will you consider implants? They are excellent (if expensive). The final installation is a bit like a trip to the mechanic. The prosthesis is attached to the post with a tiny little ratchet, torque wrench.

 

EDIT:

Oops missed this:

19 minutes ago, polybear said:

You could always get an implant - apparently several teeth (presumably they'd need to be next to each other)

Implants can be individual teeth or multiple adjacent teeth.

 

And your reply:

9 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

I went through the options before I even stepped in to the dentist's car park let alone chair, no implants, I don't think I will get any benefit as I think they will encourage the other teeth to shatter.

Is your impression of the benefit a professional opinion from your dentist? It doesn't make sense to me.

 

Edited May 30, 2023 by Ozexpatriate
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[Ozexpatriate]

11 hours ago, polybear said:

How to get the interior of your car remodelled:

It's not that rare. If bears smell food they get it.

 

At this time of year, bears, well out of hibernation, are hungry. There is not a lot of food around - things like berries haven't grown in yet.

 

There have been a number of bear sightings in a large wooded area in Portland this spring. It's not yet clear if they are the same bear. Bear sightings in the city are unusual. We're well inside their range but urban deforestation has reduced their habitat locally.

[woodenhead]

30 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

And your reply:

Is your impression of the benefit a professional opinion from your dentist? It doesn't make sense to me.

 

From the state of the teeth surrounding the ones that has and is coming out plus I grind and that is a no-no for implants.

 

I also expect to lose more - there is one up top that is hanging on by a thread, I thought she'd be recommending removal but not yet, it's a Frankenstein but it lives on.   At £2500 per implant, it's going to get expensive and at my age not sure I would get the best back on the investment and I am not going to Turkey to get cheap ones.

 

But I do have time to consider options, nothing would start until 3 months after removal, so if I find it's impossible to eat I can do something.

[Ian Abel]

Chewsday already, that's what happens when a three day weekend strikes <yay>

 

Friday overall quiet, and indoors to avoid the bad air quality.

Saturday, air quality MUCH better, foray to the garden center to obtain various perennials and annuals for the garden. Determined a decent area out front that gets enough sun for some rose bushes. Now all that's needed is to dig up the awful bushes (no idea what they are) that have been residing there, and prepare the ground.

Saturday evening dinner out with Jemma, Brendan and his parents, great time together, they're really one the same wavelength as us on many things!

 

Sunday another round of sh!!ty air quality, so much so that I stayed in/home while the Mrs went to the lake for the day with Trevor and Meagan.

I did manage to plant 4 astilbee before I needed to retreat back into the house and a/c.

 

Sunday evening weather improved enough for us to have a very nice neighborhood happy hour on our patio.

Monday relaxing staying inside again as the air quality when in the tank again.

 

Working today. Mrs off with a book group to some event then lunch...

 

Early morning hours thunderstorms, weather today, air quality better, 16c partly sunny first thing, high 29c expected.

 

Tally ho.

[Coombe Barton]

... marking, marking, marking. 121 submissions of spreadsheets, 15 worksheets each, therefor it’s marking over 1,800 separate calculation and chart sets ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/05/30/is-there-a-trend-and-the-dog-ate-my-homework/

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

Can it be it be easily removed and milled flat?

Is it beyond grinding with a Dremel then?

[polybear]

1 hour ago, woodenhead said:

@polybear My dentist, despite being qualified for implants, suggested most people live with the gaps.

 

I went through the options before I even stepped in to the dentist's car park let alone chair, no implants, I don't think I will get any benefit as I think they will encourage the other teeth to shatter.

 

A bridge is out when the teeth either side are already in a state and a single tooth denture may be more trouble than it is worth.

 

So at the moment I am going with a gap on either side and see how I do, luckily I am a man of a soft diet already, too many lost bits of teeth from hard crisps and definitely no crackling.

 

My dentist is very good, she knows how to deal with anxious elephants like myself.

 

Bear busted a tooth (top left, one in from the back) and I nursed it for quite a long time - I was all lined up for an implant when the dreaded Big H kicked off and the Dentist conformed that trying to do an implant probably wasn't a good idea until it was sorted - which IIRC took well over a year thanks to a GP that was a total and utter FWOS.

Because I was nursing it I was sub consciously eating on the RHS far more - so was worried about premature wear on that side; I can't recall at what stage the busted tooth was removed and how long I was without a tooth though.

As for the implant - money well spent; one of the better things I've spend the tokens on.  I'd never know it wasn't the original and feels totally normal.

 

I casually asked the Dentist how many he'd done - "Around a thousand" came the reply.  "Bluddy Hell" says I - "that's two million quid!!"

At that point I did notice the two Nurses were staring at him - probably with thoughts of a pay rise on their minds; the Dentist suddenly went unnaturally quiet rather quickly and I got the impression he'd wished he hadn't said how many he'd done.

 

 

[woodenhead]

Like I said, I will play it by ear, but at the moment I am going with saving £5000 and doing nothing.

[skipepsi]

3 hours ago, PupCam said:

Afternoon All

 

 

.... and mine that I sat on the next table to Roger Whittaker on the roof top bar of the Hotel Forum in Rome.   He didn't know it was me and luckily he was not exercising his musical talents at the time 😂

 

In Other News

 

We enjoyed a pleasant trip to St Ives (not the "next the sea" one!) yesterday.   We stumbled around an antiques fair although there was precious little to get excited about on display.    Then we wobbled down an attractive footpath by the river in order to visit the town.   A nice prawn salad in a bar close to the river served as lunch followed by a wander around the Bank Holiday market and then a further wobble back up the path to retrieve Monty.      We stopped off and circumnavigated the Holt Island nature reserve during the return wobble which was rather nice and rather more peaceful than the Tempsford Millennium Garden Sanctuary which is all very nice with the one exception that it is located literally within feet of the northbound carriageway of the A1 dual carriageway.   Peaceful sanctuary it is not!

 

 

Anyway,  St Ives was rather pleasant on a sunny afternoon.

 

   

 

In other other news

 

The Beeza's cush drive, clutch and chaincase  has been stripped down yet again.  The source of the problem appears to be a shoddy repair to the rear case at some point in the dim distant past.  There is an area around the gearbox drive shaft hole that should be depressed to accommodate a big felt sealing washer whilst leaving the slidey plate I mentioned previously to slide on the main surface of the case.   It looks like new material has been (badly) welded in place in this area probably following a "secondary chain chewing its way through the side" event.   In doing so the area seems to have lost most of the depression and so the plate stands proud and thus reducing the clearance between its slimline mounting bolts and the edge of the primary chain.

 

 

 

Such neat welding .......

 

A quick look on Ebay revealed a potential replacement in good shape albeit slightly rusty.  Unfortunately checks revealed that it is the wrong size so that won't work!   Cogitation on options for remedial action is ongoing.

 

It looks like I will be preparing pasta in a white sauce with bacon and gammon lardons for dinner this evening.   I would not of course call it Carbonara!

 

TTFNQ!

 

 

 

 

It looks convex where it should be concave, is this linked to your previous comments on alignment?

[PupCam]

3 hours ago, AndyID said:

I did once share an elevator with Kate Bush at the Royal Angus in Brum when she was at the height of her fame.

 

1 hour ago, polybear said:

Bear sat behind Jimmy Nail on a BA flight to Edinburgh.....

 

Stuck on the roof with whistling Roger Whittacker, stuck in an aluminium tube behind Jimmy Nail or stuck in a lift with Kate Bush.

 

I know which one I fancy most of all Heathcliff !!!!

 

[pH]

Just encountered a police cruiser with lights and siren on coming the opposite way at a crossroads where I had a green light. It turned across in front of me - fortunately I had stopped on the sound of the siren. With all its lights flashing, there was no way I could pick out the turn indicator. They really must depend on people stopping on the sound (as you’re supposed to). The guy further back in the lane beside me was a bit slow on the uptake - he was well into the intersection before he managed to stop.

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon/evening all from Estuary-Land. The day seems to have disappeared again, where it went I've no idea. When I went down to Tess Coes this afternoon I noticed that the cost of diesel had dropped considerably, now only 2p a litre more than petrol. I now have all the shopping stashed away, they were sold out of my usual bread so I bought a cheese bread, should be good with a slice or two of ham.

[PhilJ W]

2 minutes ago, pH said:

Just encountered a police cruiser with lights and siren on coming the opposite way at a crossroads where I had a green light. It turned across in front of me - fortunately I had stopped on the sound of the siren. With all its lights flashing, there was no way I could pick out the turn indicator. They really must depend on people stopping on the sound (as you’re supposed to). The guy further back in the lane beside me was a bit slow on the uptake - he was well into the intersection before he managed to stop.

I had a police vehicle on full blues and twos coming up behind me a couple of days ago so I pulled over to the kerb to let it pass. However the driver of the car in front of me seemed completely unaware of the police cars presence. When he did realise he braked and it was a miracle the police driver avoided hitting him.

[PupCam]

2 minutes ago, skipepsi said:

It looks convex where it should be concave, is this linked to your previous comments on alignment?

 

It's a trick of the light;  it is actually still slightly concave but I think it should be deeper.  I think the edge of the flange around the large hole should be flush or maybe even sub-flush with the main backplate but it actually protrudes which then pushes the plate forward and into intermittent*  contact with the primary chain.

 

* The sprocket/clutch drum does not run perfectly true (it is 80+ years old after all)

 

The two possible options at the moment appear to be:

 a) Grind the raised surface of the weld flat with the local material and to try and reform the dished area deeper

 b) Grind the raised surface of the weld flat, leave the depth as-is but remove some of the flange to make it shallower so that the edge becomes flush

 

The grinding flat is necessary in both cases to provide a reasonable surface for the felt sealing** washer to sit on.   In the case of b) I'll obviously have to use a thinner felt washer as the depression is shallower.

 

** "Sealing" is more wishful thinking than sound engineering practice on an old British bike!

 

Decisions!

[jamie92208]

2 hours ago, woodenhead said:

@polybear My dentist, despite being qualified for implants, suggested most people live with the gaps.

 

I went through the options before I even stepped in to the dentist's car park let alone chair, no implants, I don't think I will get any benefit as I think they will encourage the other teeth to shatter.

 

A bridge is out when the teeth either side are already in a state and a single tooth denture may be more trouble than it is worth.

 

So at the moment I am going with a gap on either side and see how I do, luckily I am a man of a soft diet already, too many lost bits of teeth from hard crisps and definitely no crackling.

 

My dentist is very good, she knows how to deal with anxious elephants like myself.

If it's any consolation I've had two lower molars out over the past 6 years and manage without them, 

 

Jamie

[skipepsi]

26 minutes ago, PupCam said:

 

It's a trick of the light;  it is actually still slightly concave but I think it should be deeper.  I think the edge of the flange around the large hole should be flush or maybe even sub-flush with the main backplate but it actually protrudes which then pushes the plate forward and into intermittent*  contact with the primary chain.

 

* The sprocket/clutch drum does not run perfectly true (it is 80+ years old after all)

 

The two possible options at the moment appear to be:

 a) Grind the raised surface of the weld flat with the local material and to try and reform the dished area deeper

 b) Grind the raised surface of the weld flat, leave the depth as-is but remove some of the flange to make it shallower so that the edge becomes flush

 

The grinding flat is necessary in both cases to provide a reasonable surface for the felt sealing** washer to sit on.   In the case of b) I'll obviously have to use a thinner felt washer as the depression is shallower.

 

** "Sealing" is more wishful thinking than sound engineering practice on an old British bike!

 

Decisions!

I would go with plan a, use a straightedge to work out the depth required. 

Edited May 30, 2023 by skipepsi
spooling

[polybear]

Bear here....

A day of fitting trim mouldings to door frame architraves (to compensate for wonky walls), as well as applying splurge (ok, Decorator's Caulk) to the architraves to fill any slight gaps etc. caused by the same wonky walls; the appearance is significantly improved as a result.  More to do, however.

Then it was fitting a PVC Conduit to hide the main leccy cables coming into the house from the Meter to the C.U.  Another Tick.

 

@iL Dottore may be pleased (nay, stunned...) to hear that Bear's din dins today didn't involve the use of the oven or AF whatsoever; there was even two of the dreaded "one of five a day" as well.....

 

Bear gone

[skipepsi]

5 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

If it's any consolation I've had two lower molars out over the past 6 years and manage without them, 

 

Jamie

I have lost six molars so far still eating crackling though.

[woodenhead]

11 minutes ago, skipepsi said:

I have lost six molars so far still eating crackling though.

So there is life after extraction :)

 

Because I've another one to go, it's going to be a few weeks before I am back to eating big stuff without worry, but I have me a big pizza planned to celebrate near the end of June.

[skipepsi]

Chocolate straight from the fridge accounted for two of them.

[AndyID]

52 minutes ago, PupCam said:

 

I think the edge of the flange around the large hole should be flush or maybe even sub-flush with the main backplate but it actually protrudes which then pushes the plate forward and into intermittent*  contact with the primary chain.

 

 

Is the flange to prevent excessive compression of the felt "seal' or have I got completely the wrong idea?

 

(BTW, do you happen to know where I can get felt?)

[PhilJ W]

8 minutes ago, AndyID said:

(BTW, do you happen to know where I can get felt?)

I'm sure someone will be able to give you directions.😏

[PupCam]

11 minutes ago, AndyID said:

Is the flange to prevent excessive compression of the felt "seal' or have I got completely the wrong idea?

 

More than likely I would have thought although the design info is no doubt lost in the mists of time ....

 

11 minutes ago, AndyID said:

(BTW, do you happen to know where I can get felt?)

 

Only if the felt is in large white sheets of a wool based material.

 

I believe a number of telephone boxes in London have information where you may get some other forms of "felt" if desperate ....