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I have a pair of anvil secateurs (see Felco explanation) with a ratchet mechanism. I am pretty sure their spring has gone. I therefore want to take them apart and replace the spring; so far so good.

However. None of the guides, or indeed spares kits, I have been able to find... actually include A Key Part, the name of which I do not know and have thus far failed to generate a competent search term for. Ordinarily I'd bimble down to the local Screwfix (or indeed drop by Mackay's next time I'm in Cambridge) and ask for advice, but, well.

a photograph of the inside of the hinge of a pair of secateurs

a photograph of the inside of the hinge of a pair of secateurs

The point of contention is the wee black ?flanged ?washer in the centre of the image, at the top of the silver-black-silver sandwich. It's holding a pin in place (by dint of the pin having a slightly broader end to its shaft). I am capable of using calipers to work out what size I need, but I've tried variants on "retaining clip" and "flanged" and "washer" and even "circlip" (which is an entirely different thing) and have got nowhere.

I would be extremely grateful to be told its True Name!

I have a coat. I like my coat. It is Goretex and generally useful. It also, alas, is down one bit of kind of important tech for the zip.

Specifically, it has a separating zip, and at some point the zip box has vanished into the ether. It's a YKK Vislon 5VS zip, and I'm pretty sure the box I want is 5S (that being what's stamped on the bottom of the subsidiary zip).

What I can't do is work out any way to usefully poke the internet to get it to disgorge me one of these, the obvious search terms being unhelpfully vague. I also don't trust myself to usefully transfer the subsidiary zip's box to the principal zip.

Suggestions for how to source this part in the UK (preferably without leaving my house, but I'll go to a haberdashery if I have to) gratefully received!

Specifically, I have a necklace that's haemetite & lava & some plastic spacer beads strung on cheap plasticated misc with a very very scratchy clasp. I also have some rutilated quartz I'd like to replace the plastic with, while simultaneously making the clasp less sensory hell (it's those thing pressed metal loops at each end, poss filled with adhesive, to hold the actual string in a loop; one of them has a standard clasp strung on it, and the other goes into the clasp).

This isn't something where I want to invest in doing lots of tiny fiddly silver links, but I don't know what the keywords are for purchasing restringing materials that won't be sensory hell. Input & advice on what I should be looking for very much appreciated -- thank you!

Okay so! Because Reasons (because science!) I am kind of after essentially an ammo box for .729 calibre (18.5mm) diameter rounds. Because sample vials that are 3.3cm/1.25" tall and 16mm max diameter. Consequently said ammo box would ideally be in plastic and definitely needs to not contain metal.

Or, you know, something that isn't an ammo box but that would fit this bill (ideally taking at least 36 vials, preferably up to 48, 24 absolute minimum). I have a friendperson offering to print me at least an interior grid for a pre-existing box, for which MANY GRATITUDE, but if there are commercially-available things that probably works out cheaper for everyone especially as the rest of my research group'll want them and at that point shipping from the US gets a bit silly?

halp halp I have failed to make ebay give me the thing I want

Dear Dreamwidth: I have a craving for a specific Food Of My People, specifically, it's approximately potato gratin (except what actually you do is boil up new potatoes in milk with onions, and maybe a bit of nutmeg, and nom nom nom). When I eat these at home, it's normally with green beans + cheese, but I suspect housemate would legitimately like something a bit more substantial/interesting than "potatoes and cheese" for dinner, so, er... suggestions? Vegetarian ones? Because where I come from, this gets served with like ham boiled with cloves, and that's clearly utterly irrelevant to me. HALP.

Creativity. What do you mean when you say it, or think when you come across the word?

This post brought to you by a conversation on a train.

[TW: POTENTIALLY DISTRESSING MEDICAL DETAIL] My period started yesterday, and all that gave it away was a mild ache in my lower back. This when I'm only on half dose of paracetamol - I successfully halved it several weeks ago, and unlike every other time I've tried doing so I didn't go back up to full dose after three days. So: either the amitriptyline is really doing its job, or I'm getting less pain... which would be a good thing, except that I suspect it's indicative of progression of nerve damage. ON THE PLUS SIDE, if it is progressive nerve damage this means I might be rid of the labial neuropathy one day. On the down side, that would be due to paralysis (yes, that is a thing endo can do). Er.
QuantumGIS. Unlike ArcGIS, it's not $2000 a licence, and it has useful help files. (Arc? Arc's manual says really cheerful stuff like THERE IS THIS THING YOU CAN DO IT'S SUPERCOOL BECAUSE OF REASONS LET ME TELL YOU HOW AWESOME IT IS and, er, never tells you how to do it.) Unlike Arc, it runs on things other than Windows. UNFORTUNATELY, files created under Windows that run perfectly fine cause, um, silent but immediate crashes of the entire sodding program when you try to open them under a Linux install. ... I was sad.
One of the things I did today was, er, write a (fairly polite) e-mail auf Deutsch to, er, the suppliers of my wheels. Based in Germany. Whose. Manual. Is, ah, provided in multiple languages, because that's helpful. ... the English and the German are mutually contradictory - somewhere along the line "nun" got translated as "not", rather than "now" - and I'd be inclined to chalk that up to a typo apart from some of the truly egregious other mistranslations.
... hold on is Buffy actually a series about Joss' ideal Manic Pixie Dream Girl oh dear goodness it is isn't it that's really rather distressing
In which I explain why I'm a bit of a disaster:
see I have a very great weakness for men who look good in formalwear while flirting with femininity and who will be _really wry_ at me while being musical
...
they don't have to be men though
...
sorry that was probably tmi
Custard. Isn't it the greatest?
Basil in raspberry trifle turns out to work really well.
How am I supposed to get chilli plants to fruit, anyway? Like, I've got the flowering down, but the fruiting not so much.
Corsetry! Isn't it great, though? And oh boy I am enjoying being secure enough in my gender presentation (for all that I am PERMANENTLY MISGENDERED) to feel okay about that one again.
Genitalia! Aren't they weird? Like, just sort of inherently? Not as weird as knees, obviously, but Pretty Bizarre nonetheless.
I'm feeling gently guilty about having spent £11 on a teal-taffeta-covered diary for 2013, but... teal. taffeta. How could I not?
I really, really enjoy spending time with my mother.
Beds are great.
I've been wearing that jacket, with all of the pins and so on on it, really quite a lot, and - every time I have the kind of interaction in public where I am Wearing That Jacket and Wearing My Docs and generally being a Pretty Stompy Queer Crip? But I am also polite and friendly and personable and thank people? I... kind of feel like I'm ~activisming~, in microcosm, in ways that are kind of terrifying but kind of exhilirating too. Does that make me weird?
I was whinging to pretty much anyone who'd listen about the Really Weird Looks I get for carrying my 30kg wheelchair up stairs at wheelchair-inaccessible Tube stations, and when it was Boything's turn he suggested I get a t-shirt that's plain on the front, with PART TIME CRIPPLE on the back (so it's only visible when I'm not in my chair). I... am very tempted to start making and selling those.
Relatedly, few things are more irritating than people ignoring my "no thanks, I'm fine, honest" when I'm trying to get my chair up stairs, because (a) that thing is heavy (b) most of the weight is in the back wheels (c) there's a REASON I'm keeping the back wheels on the steps (d) if you lift the back wheels OFF the steps and then move faster than I comfortably can, you ARE making things more dangerous, you ARE increasing the likelihood I'll trip and fall, and you ARE standing between, have I mentioned, a thirty kilo wheelchair and gravity, and that is a bad plan
That bit of ranting aside, I'm actually really cheerful. Sorry for taking up ALL YOUR READING PAGES today, darling subscribers. And do let me know about that one disasterfic. <3

Current Mood: garrulous

Can I have recs, please? I am working with two image sets. Both are taken in serpentine fashion.

In one set, I have approximately 1500 tiles total (making up five composite images), and they look something like this:

... i.e. I just want the central portion, and I want a whole bunch of not-quite-circles fishscaling in a serpentine fashion, and I REALLY don't want to have to do it all (including cropping) by hand on a per-image basis.

The second image set is only about 180 tiles (forming 12 images), and each tile looks rather more like this:

... and are arranged in serpentine fashion. I anticipate these being rather easier.

Unfortunately, Hugin chokes and dies (i.e. crashes complete with sending error reports to the mothership), and I haven't worked out why and can't be bothered to diagnose it.

For the second image set at least, the Microsoft Image Composite Editor might be useful... except that where I have files named e.g. ./BR6a-31.tif through to ./BR6a-36.tif, "New Structured Panorama" tiles them like so:

36	31	32
35	34	33

... which is making me SUPER SAD. And they have no effective manual image repositioning - HURRAH.

... any suggestions?

... please? ;_;

who only by moving can balance

only by balancing move

the naming of things

Since this worked so well last time :-)

In which I request jewelry advice

fff

Food help

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bits, bobs, other things I meant to mention today and somehow didn't

I hate everything, and especially image-stitching software

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