Early 50s La Gazelle - Eau-de-Nil 🛠️ The Merlot Aftermath 🍷

[Imlach]

Nurse Imlach says up your dose and keep fiddling

 

[Betsy]

Nurse Ratched tells me I should move on to other things, but she always tells me that when I get focused and in my prime. What I will actually do is re-arrange +50 year old rubber blocks in +50 year old rubber block holders until I'm satisfied and can hear Enya before I get strapped in bed.

I was reading a while ago that an abattoir was playing Enya’s music to the animals because it calmed them down.. in reality they probably considered death a more appealing alternative.
Enya issued them with a cease and desist order because it was at odds with her vegetarian principles... huh! she would prefer them to be agitated in their final moments?
Come on Enya, this is your chance to give something back to the world after all the pain and suffering we’ve had to endure at the hands of your intolerable ‘music’

 

[Imlach]

I was reading a while ago that an abattoir was playing Enya’s music to the animals because it calmed them down.. in reality they probably considered death a more appealing alternative.
Enya issued them with a cease and desist order because it was at odds with her vegetarian principles... huh! she would prefer them to be agitated in their final moments?
Come on Enya, this is your chance to give something back to the world after all the pain and suffering we’ve had to endure at the hands of your intolerable ‘music’

I'm not sure she's endured her own music brother

 

[Woz]

..... this shouldn't break

Lucky find today at the charity shop - an homemade, and very well made, mechanics U clamp that I'm hoping will make light work of these pesky cotter-pins. It's very heavy duty and would love to modify it / improve it specifically for cotter-pins. Size wise it looks like it will all work.

Bargain at 3€ and money going to a good cause

 

[Woz]

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[Imlach]

..... this shouldn't break

Lucky find today at the charity shop - an homemade, and very well made, mechanics U clamp that I'm hoping will make light work of these pesky cotter-pins. It's very heavy duty and would love to modify it / improve it specifically for cotter-pins. Size wise it looks like it will all work.

Bargain at 3€ and money going to a good cause

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For only 58 euro more you could have had thr same with but with a cool logo!

 

[chickendrumsticks]

That's perfect! I picked this up at my local re-use shop at the tip.

 

[Woz]

^ that is some serious heavy duty kit. Labelled cotter-pins too. Love it.

 

[chickendrumsticks]

^ that is some serious heavy duty kit. Labelled cotter-pins too. Love it.

I only labelled it 'cos it had been carefully filed to fit. The other was not modified. So perhaps they can be reused. From my old Viking Medallist _ the rebuild has begun.

 

[bikemig]

I have a hard time turning down old French bikes as well. One of the advantages of living in the US, though, is that the odds of finding anything this old and French are not very good. Finding incomplete bikes isn't hard, though.

I do have a 70s era Motobecane Grand Record I've rebuilt and I have a 70s era Mercier 300 that I will rebuild one of these days.