Nordlicht dynamos are shite

[Peter Clinch]

Alan Braggins wrote:
>
> Plan B: lock the dynohub in second (direct drive), and move an
> unbutchered Rohloff into a G-Boxx type system after extensive
> surgery to the frame.....
> Maybe building a stub axle front dynamo would be easier after all.

And Plan A means I could put one on the 8 Freight. Though of course
then I'd have to have a bit of a think about the brakes. Bah!

Pete.
--
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[Al C-F]

Tony Raven wrote:
> Simon Brooke wrote:
>
>>
>> There's your answer. Saint Maggie decided years ago we were better off
>> without a manufacturing industry.
>>
>
> ITYM British consumers decided we were better off without a
> manufacturing industry. No-one ever forced anybody to buy a Toyota or
> Sony over a Rover or Amstrad to name but two examples.
>

Nothing to do with the British worker then, oh no. Salt of the earth...

 

[Al C-F]

Tony Raven wrote:
> Simon Brooke wrote:
>
>>
>> There's your answer. Saint Maggie decided years ago we were better off
>> without a manufacturing industry.
>>
>
> ITYM British consumers decided we were better off without a
> manufacturing industry. No-one ever forced anybody to buy a Toyota or
> Sony over a Rover or Amstrad to name but two examples.
>

Nothing to do with the British worker then, oh no. Salt of the earth...

 

[Dave Larrington]

In article <[email protected]>,
([email protected]) wrote:
> http://www.sjscycles.com/store/item498.htm
>
> Will this fit?
> TerryJ

Probably, but I am disinclined to bin a brace of Lightspins and rather
nice XT hub to find out

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
Every establishment needs an opposition.

 

[Dave Larrington]

In article <[email protected]>,
([email protected]) wrote:
> http://www.sjscycles.com/store/item498.htm
>
> Will this fit?
> TerryJ

Probably, but I am disinclined to bin a brace of Lightspins and rather
nice XT hub to find out

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
Every establishment needs an opposition.

 

[Michael MacClancy]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:43:54 +0000, Simon Brooke wrote:

> in message <[email protected]>, Charlie
> ('[email protected]') wrote:
>
>> Whatever happened to Miller dynamos? I remember mine being very
>> satisfactory. British too.
> ^^^^^^^
>
> There's your answer. Saint Maggie decided years ago we were better off
> without a manufacturing industry.

What, did Saint Maggie personally close the Miller factory? Or was it
those thousands of consumers who decided to buy elsewhere?
--
Michael MacClancy

 

[Michael MacClancy]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:43:54 +0000, Simon Brooke wrote:

> in message <[email protected]>, Charlie
> ('[email protected]') wrote:
>
>> Whatever happened to Miller dynamos? I remember mine being very
>> satisfactory. British too.
> ^^^^^^^
>
> There's your answer. Saint Maggie decided years ago we were better off
> without a manufacturing industry.

What, did Saint Maggie personally close the Miller factory? Or was it
those thousands of consumers who decided to buy elsewhere?
--
Michael MacClancy

 

[Chris Malcolm]

Al C-F <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tony Raven wrote:
>> Simon Brooke wrote:

>>> There's your answer. Saint Maggie decided years ago we were better off
>>> without a manufacturing industry.

>> ITYM British consumers decided we were better off without a
>> manufacturing industry. No-one ever forced anybody to buy a Toyota or
>> Sony over a Rover or Amstrad to name but two examples.

> Nothing to do with the British worker then, oh no. Salt of the earth...

Obviously nothing to do with the British worker, considering how well
they do when managed by foreigners.

--
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IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

 

[Chris Malcolm]

Al C-F <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tony Raven wrote:
>> Simon Brooke wrote:

>>> There's your answer. Saint Maggie decided years ago we were better off
>>> without a manufacturing industry.

>> ITYM British consumers decided we were better off without a
>> manufacturing industry. No-one ever forced anybody to buy a Toyota or
>> Sony over a Rover or Amstrad to name but two examples.

> Nothing to do with the British worker then, oh no. Salt of the earth...

Obviously nothing to do with the British worker, considering how well
they do when managed by foreigners.

--
Chris Malcolm [email protected] +44 (0)131 651 3445 DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

 

[Tosspot]

Dave Larrington wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Tosspot
> ([email protected]) wrote:
>
>>I'm sorry, but they are. The first hint of moisture in the air they
>>stop working. In this case snow. Yet another ride home relying on the
>>battery backup rear and no front. I've tried increasing the pressure,
>>checking the alignment, sacrificing chickens, nothing works, they are ****.
>
>
> I haven't had any prombles with my Lightspins thus far, though they have
> yet to encounter /really/ filthy conditions.

I did look at them, but they are too costly if it doesn't work. A hub
type solution is the best, I'm sure. I might have another look at
bodging the FER onto it. That would be brilliant if I can get it on the
rear wheel but I'm sure it wont go.

 

[Tosspot]

[email protected] wrote:
> http://www.sjscycles.com/store/item498.htm
>
> Will this fit?

Ooooh, that *is* interesting. I will contact them and ask if they think
it could be fitted to the rear wheel.

Cheers!