Working with my hands and camera
This is the first time I have tried to change valve guides, so please take the following with that huge caveat. Initially I had not planned to renovate the cylinder head on my 1959 Triumph Bonneville. I knew the valve guides were shot and I even had a piece of carbon that has made a dent in the seat and valve on one of the exhaust ports. But as I was in for quite a lot of money on the bottom end…
I am currently reading “The courage to be disliked” by Ichiro Kishimi which in many ways is a provocative and contemplative read. When I finish it I will have to summarise my thoughts in some way to both remember some of the good points it presents but also digest the full scope of it. But today I will write about a point that stuck with me after reading the book in bed last night. The book deals…
Preparing for a light enduro/off road event I wanted to have wider pegs for my 1987 Yamaha XT600. This makes it less straining to stand up for extended periods of time. It is of course possible to buy wider foot pegs, but as I wanted them to be steel, for the added strength they also became more expensive than I wanted. This gave me the idea to just make them myself. I already had the original…
I had the great opportunity to see the Porsche aircooled car/art show “Luftgekuhlt” in Copenhagen this Saturday. To the best of my knowledge it is a show that started in California and has since expanded to include a few satellite shows around the World each year. And this Saturday it was held at the Wilhelm Lauritzen terminal in Copenhagen right next to Copenhagen Airport. When we first arrived,…
The last time I worked on the 1959 Triumph Bonneville T120 I fabricated a triumph pinion puller and removed the crankshaft from the timing side engine cover. The main reason for removing it totally is to get to the infamous “sludge trap” and clean it. When I removed the left connecting rod it was also apparent that the crank would need to be polished/re-grinded as there was scratches in the…
I have for some time wanted to build some furniture for our home. Initially I wanted to build a dinner table, but I have not got around to that project yet. Instead I thought about creating a new living room table. Currently our living room table consists of old cut-up pallets and a glass top plate that I have had cut to size. This works okay, but it looks a bit dense and cumbersome with the…
We are close to December here in Denmark and driving season seems over. This means that it is time to get started on the winter projects. I have some smaller things I want to do to the Guzzi, but most of those are for looks and not really needed. That bike just runs and has done so for the entire year. What does need some more serious work is the bike I bought unseen from an estate earlier this…
I recently found some free online courses on deep learning that piqued my interest. They used Jupyter Notebook for some of the material and even though they recommended using kaggle.com I wanted to run it locally. My main laptop runs Ubuntu so I had to figure out how to run it on that platform. I did a bit of experimentation with python a couple of years ago but as I found out I had been better of…
I read a comment on Hacker News that got me thinking about a “problem” that I have, or to be more precise whether it is a problem at all. It can be framed as analysis paralysis, which is also what I have titled this piece. But in doing so we have already casted some form of judgment on it. Paralysis is hardly a positive framing. But the commenter on HN had an interesting observation: I have two…
Entity Framework can be both a blessing and a curse - especially EF database first. For startups and small clean-sheet projects, it really works wonders. You can get so much done in very little time. But once you have to work within the constraints of corporate structure and corporate security, then you quickly run into its limitations. Or perhaps I have just been incredibly unlucky as I have had…