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sean_iow wrote: Fri May 17, 2019 6:48 pm A bluetooth remote shutter switch for my phone and a mini tripod and phone adapter. I don't have any friends to go bikepacking with :sad: but now I'll be able to take pictures of myself for BAM reports :smile:

That's a thing?! Have you got a link please??
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This is it

CamKix Camera Shutter Remote... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07C7YJS9M? ... b_ap_share

Seems to work in my indoor tests but I need to see how the range is outdoors yet.
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sean_iow wrote: Fri May 17, 2019 9:48 pm This is it

CamKix Camera Shutter Remote... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07C7YJS9M? ... b_ap_share

Seems to work in my indoor tests but I need to see how the range is outdoors yet.
great stuff, you'll have to let me know how you get on...
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The camera is 15M away from the shed, you can see the tape on the ground :ugeek:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/69624131@ ... res/P34D02

I was stood maybe another 5M away. I set the phone to self timer so I could get out of the shot and also when it takes a pic in that mode the flash light flashes to count down to the shutter so I could tell from where I was stood that it was working.

Apologies for the link to the photo, I'm now having to use Flickr and I can't work out how to embed from my phone.
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I currently have about £1000 worth of body armour scattered around my living room floor.

Plan is to try all of it on, fall to my knees / elbows a bit and then send back the stuff I don't like.

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...and dropped off a b-rad 2 to give me some more room for a water bottle in the main triangle
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redefined_cycles wrote: Sat May 18, 2019 10:56 am New Wahoo Day

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redefined_cycles wrote: Sat May 18, 2019 10:56 am New Choo-choo Day

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techno mail wrote: Sat May 18, 2019 5:07 pm
redefined_cycles wrote: Sat May 18, 2019 10:56 am New Wahoo Day

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Someone needs to be more patient applying screen protection... :lol:
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Richard G wrote: Sat May 18, 2019 10:22 pm Someone needs to be more patient applying screen protection... :lol:
Yeah, that's how it came (2nd hand ya see)
I'll be replacing it soon enough :geek:
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One of them there gas canister contents transfer valve things. If you see a mushroom cloud over Bedfordshire you'll know I've not read the instructions properly. In fact I won't have read the instructions properly because there aren't any. And I use bio-ethanol anyway. Er.
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RIP wrote: Mon May 20, 2019 11:04 am One of them there gas canister contents transfer valve things. If you see a mushroom cloud over Bedfordshire you'll know I've not read the instructions properly. In fact I won't have read the instructions properly because there aren't any. And I use bio-ethanol anyway. Er.

Lol, my gadget came last week and I successfully filled a small cannister over the weekend. Just put the can to be filled into the freezer for an hour or so,and the one you're emptying into hot water. Then join them up with the one to be filled in the bottom, open the valve and off you go. Mind and weight full/empty so you don't overfill.
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Ta for info Pete. I'm reasonably up on physics theory but hadn't applied any brain cells yet to obtaining the necessary pressure differential for it to presumably work. So thank you for saving me the effort :-bd . I think yours must be a bit more sophisticated than my £1.35 jobby because "open the valve" with mine involves just "screwing one side into the 'from' canister and pushing the other side into the 'to' canister" or vice versa. I can see this going horribly wrong anyway which will be highly entertaining.
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Just put the can to be filled into the freezer for an hour or so,and the one you're emptying into hot water.
Used to do something similar when filling nitrous bottles ... except I'd hit the big bottle with an oxy torch for a minute or so rather than trying to stand it in hot water. :-bd
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"oxy torch". Hmm, yep worth a try. I'll probably have to be a bit quick with a C100 though - maybe just wave the torch in its general direction for a second or so; or I'd end up with a small pool of aluminium, a slight fleeting smell of butane, and singed eyebrows. After due consideration, I think sticking with my little StuStove and some ethanol is my way forward after all :wink: .
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RIP wrote: Mon May 20, 2019 2:28 pm Ta for info Pete. I'm reasonably up on physics theory but hadn't applied any brain cells yet to obtaining the necessary pressure differential for it to presumably work. So thank you for saving me the effort :-bd . I think yours must be a bit more sophisticated than my £1.35 jobby because "open the valve" with mine involves just "screwing one side into the 'from' canister and pushing the other side into the 'to' canister" or vice versa. I can see this going horribly wrong anyway which will be highly entertaining.
Ah, yeah I got the dual-ended type for using with small Coleman cannisters rather than the aerosol type. I was a tad wary to start with, but added small amounts until I worked out a rough flowrate. Oh and i kept windows open and away from any possible methods of ignition and made darn sure the wife didn't know what I was up to. 😁
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...another box full of body armour!

Two more to come.
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I've got loads here you could have had Rich. I've got a Troy Lee D2 if that's any interest?
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Cheers for the offer. It's fine though, it's mostly just because I'm a really strange size, so the small stuff is almost always too tight, but the medium tends to be too loose.

Thankfully my head is rather more normal sized so my full face was relatively easy to source.
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Bearbonesnorm wrote: Mon May 20, 2019 3:00 pm
Just put the can to be filled into the freezer for an hour or so,and the one you're emptying into hot water.
Used to do something similar when filling nitrous bottles ... except I'd hit the big bottle with an oxy torch for a minute or so rather than trying to stand it in hot water. :-bd
Nothing like old school h&s there Stu :wink:
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And brought me some legendary (IMO) trousers. Thanks so much again Colin :-bd
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A Hiplok Z-Lok... which is fine, but I ordered a Hiplok Z-Lok combo, you absolute clowns.
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