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I don't own a sander so that's £30 plus a tool, which puts it above the vintage price. Useful to know it's an option though.

I own one of the rugged all in one camping grinders and I would buy it again for car camping and never carry it on my back. It is beautifully built, the burrs are fine, and it weighs about what a full water bottle does, which for a two person three day trip is a lot of grams for six brews. The stainless housing is the reason it survives being kicked around a truck bed and also the reason it should stay in the truck.

That's exactly what I was doing. Picked the kick as the low end owner and high-passed the bass at 55 with saturation up top and it immediately sat.

Not being sore the next day isn't necessarily a problem, but four sets to failure three times a week and no soreness at all makes me wonder about the rep quality. Are you going full dead hang at the bottom and chin clearly over at the top? Half reps stall exactly like this.

I tried the narrow let-out on linen once and regretted it. Even after washing, the original stitch line stayed visible as a row of tiny holes right where the fabric was under most tension, and it looked worse than any panel would have. Linen holds needle marks in a way that cotton does not.

Politely disagreeing with doing anything at all beyond the water stuff. Live in a house for four seasons before you spend on it, because a 1968 house will tell you what it needs - where it is cold, where it is loud, which room you never use, where the condensation gathers. Everyone I know who renovated in the first six months redid part of it later. Keep most of that two grand until spring.

Domestic hobs are usually the underlying issue with woks. Home burners can't get a 14 inch pan hot across the whole surface, so the ring where the flame hits cures properly and the sloping sides stay tacky. Tilt and rotate the wok constantly while seasoning so every part gets time over the flame.

Learn to bail properly if you haven't: cartwheel out to the side. People who can't bail subconsciously hold back from committing to the balance, and holding back looks exactly like drifting one way.

Don't chase hot levels at 24 bit. -18 average and -12 peak is plenty of headroom and your noise floor is nowhere near a problem. The habit of tracking near 0 came from 16 bit tape-era thinking and it doesn't apply.

The tyre choice matters less than the load rating trap. Light truck tyres in a high load range have stiff sidewalls designed to carry weight you are not carrying, so on an empty bed they ride on top of the snow and skate. If your truck's door placard allows it, a lower load range or a passenger-rated winter tyre in the same size gives you a softer carcass and a much bigger contact patch when empty. Check the placard, do not take my word for it, but that single change did more for me than switching brands ever did.

Alternative to vinegar if you have the space and patience: electrolysis with a battery charger and washing soda. Zero risk of over-etching, strips both rust and old seasoning, and it's oddly satisfying. Overkill for one pan though.

Fair correction, that's a reasonable flag. Scrap the german hang from my list.

Rings being worse than bar points at stability rather than strength. Add scapular work directly: scap pulls, ring support holds with active shoulders, and german hangs done very conservatively. Build the position before you load it.

Split it. £200 on treatment, £120 on a decent pair of monitor stands if you're on a desk, and the rest on a measurement mic. Getting the monitors off the desk surface and up to ear height is a real, audible improvement that costs almost nothing in comparison and people skip it constantly.

Doorway bar for the flat, rings for the park. That combination costs well under £70 and covers everything.

Rings are strictly better than a fixed bar for training, but they need 2.4m of clearance to be useful and a doorway gives you maybe 2m. You can hang rings from a doorway bar but the range is so compressed that dips and anything below horizontal is out. Meanwhile a doorway bar does pull-ups, hanging leg raises and inverted rows if you set your feet on a chair, which is most of what you need indoors.

Take the rings to the park and hang them from the frame there, that's where they earn their keep.

They weigh about a kilo with straps and fit in a small bag. Half the people you see on park bars have a pair.