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Apparently copyright only allows you to make one copy of anything. Ever. *giggle* this is not my understanding at all. But nevermind, I'm sure they have their reasons.
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The people who make CRC appear to also make a Marine flavour. I'm hoping this means it is sea salt strong, as I don't want US army in-a-can. Either way, it aided me in my recent attempts to make my bycyle chain behave like a snaky thing instead of a small, recalcitrant structural component. If someone could also make a product which would complete the hour's work I did in my driveway manipulating each rusted joint so the lubricant could get to work, I'd be embarrasingly grateful. Or not. It was a fabulous day to be outside near the sea doing something mindless.
One of the effects of being a reasonably small and not very strong person, is you get horribly canny when it comes to completing strength-based tasks. Pliers are the way to go. The lovely people who make Vice-Grip wrench/plier type things have enabled me to pry apart a range of otherwise connected things, and even (on occasion) put them back together again. Tho they are horribly expensive. Consequently I didn't actually get to use one and had to make do with two sets from my girlfriend's tool kit (*shhhh*).
Big ups also to the people who make Shamino bycycle parts. After 7 years use (and 3 of just being left in the rain) all the parts still worked, and the screws and bolts were all managible. Pure magic.
In fact the only problem with the bicycle restoring project so far has been my hands. My nails now look like I am a carrier of a new sort of black death, as they have a really effective rust-plus-oil blackening mousse under the fingernails.
Posted by carla at August 18, 2003 11:19 PM