I have had it for probably a year or more and recently wanted to remove my cassette for yearly maintainance and thought I’d give it a go as I never want to use a chain whip. Can’t recommend it enough!

I fucking hate chain whips and sockets for removal, it is one of the worst jobs IMO trying to keep that tool seated in the lock ring correctly and the cassette from spinning whilst using sufficient force to undo it all is bull shit.

Recently I used one of these for the first time -

It is listed as an emergency pocket lock ring tool but I will never be going back to using shitty chain whips. You remove the wheel and get the tool in the right place and the refit the wheel so the tab will push in the frame. I placed a bit of cut inner tube under the tab to protect the paint and then you just pedal to undo the lock ring. The tool is sandwiched in there so won’t slip and you have the power and leverage of your legs and a crank arm to put in the force needed, in comparison a chain whip seems fucking stupid to me if you are able to use one of these.

I probably wouldn’t use it on a carbon frame but I also personally would never own a carbon frame either so that is a non issue for me.

For a tenner it is probably one of the best tools I have discovered that no one ever speaks about.

You can also cut up old tubes and use them as patches on other tubes if you only have glue left :)

Why should the public be angry? Fuck these shops and their rampant capitalism, steal as much as you can people. Fuck these corporations and fuck the police!

Brandon Sanderson books, specifically the cosmere stuff are all pretty fucking good.

My favourite is probably Mistborn but I know a lot of people prefer The Stormlight Archives. All worth reading!

How shit is this festival that if one act falls through they cancel the entire fucking thing…

I am loving seeing all these updates to one of my favourite games of all time. I just wish I had the time to return and play through everything again!

This list may help you out

Settings - Appearance - Themes and then change device mode to android should stop the app from changing for you. It is something that has happened for quite a long time but since I changed that option it hasnt happened for me again :)

If you open an image post it should force the app to display properly again when the half screen bug happens.

I have them tagged as “ex pig”, so not just a bootlicker they are filth. Obligatory ACAB.

…they are free pets, double win.

In my city you just put anything you don’t want out in the street, maybe with a little note saying “still working” or some other relevant info if it was an appliance and it will usually be gone within the hour.

I have furnished multiple flats with free street furniture that I have come across whilst out and just had to carry home.

I realise that it is not like this everywhere but I love the culture of actively recycling useful items within the community just by leaving them in the street for people!

If a business only has some shitty Instagram or Facebook page or wants to only be contactable via WhatsApp then they don’t deserve my fucking business.

No worries. If you have any questions regarding the print processes feel free to PM me and I’ll answer if I can :D

Ah OK, sorry, my bad.

Thanks for the link though, it is interesting to have a look at. Do you know ones in Germany are already printing cards like that Chinese place you linked or are you talking about general online print stores that are based in germany?

The reason I ask as if they already do a lot of cards (like the Chinese one obviously does) they will already have a lot of the requires equipment like dies available and in use, if however they are just a generic online print store like say redbubble sort of thing then they may add drastic extra costs to cover additional tooling where they don’t already have it, so I would definitely suggest leaning towards companies that already deal in printing cards like that link.

Either way sorry I can’t give you an idea of costs or more help.

I foiled these pokemon card things last year at work for a Christmas limited edition and the foiling process alone cost them around €500 for around 250 sheets which is why I suggest you go with someone that already has the tooling required.

Good luck, I’d be interested to see the results once you do get something done!

If you want any kind of decent quality then it probably isnt going to be cost effective for you to print them yourself.

Firstly you are going to have to pay for the stock for it to be printed onto.

By the nature of the fact you will not want long runs of all the same cards and thus have many sheets all with different cards on you are going to have to get them digitally printed as opposed to litho. Digital quality these days is very good and most people will not be able to tell the difference but wizards would have them done litho and they would be of a better quality because of it. Digital is also not quite as accurate in terms of registration which can make more or less of a difference depending on the method of cutting them out you use.

Im not sure if the real cards are laminated or not from memory but if they are and you wanted to replicate that that is another process that would need to be paid for for machine time and materials. Lamination would make them a lot more durable for sure.

If you want foils then you would need to pay for dies to be made for the foiling as well as then the foil and machine time for doing that.

Cutting them out you would need to have dies made to have them die cut to shape. You could have them cut normally then use a round corner cutter on every card but that is time consuming and less accurate. The registration of the printing method here would then make a difference so depending on how good the print is you may have off center cards with poor borders etc. You could also get them cut on a flat bed die cutting machine which would be more accurate as it uses registration dots that are printed to get its position so the registration of the print in relation to the paper is less vital with that but it costs more.

This is a very big rabbit hole that you could fall into and it all gets very expensive very quickly. You typical high street print shop will be able to get a reasonable finish but the small machines they use are never going to be as good as their industrial grade counter parts.

I personally think it would probably be more cost effective for you to buy job lots of actual cards from eBay and maybe search out some specific sets you want.

We havent even talked about where you are going to get the artwork from for the print shop and paying them for laying down the cards and imposing them for their machines which is costly before anything goes towards paper.

I would recommend trying to find a print shop local to you and going in and having a basic conversation with them about what kind of thing you want to achieve and just get a basic idea of costs to give yourself an idea of an approximate cost for the kind of finish you want to achieve and decide if it is a route you want to go down before maybe then shopping around for the print shop you think may be the best as I think you are going to be surprised at how much it will set you back to print the stuff yourself.

I have no experience of Chinese print houses and their prices / quality.

Oh shit, I remember playing a demo for this probably around 1999 and enjoying it a lot but I never played the full game!

I’m not saying that it was a fault of pop more my install of it seemed to have issues for whatever reason :)