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| with the stiffeners in, it retains its shape. |
Brevet
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Emergency Flag Repair
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| My son asked me this morning to fix Christian Pacheco's flag, before school. Super rush job, as today is Friday and I wanted Christian to have it for the weekend. |
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| The first part was to repair the broken staff, with super glue and two layers of electical tape, one horizontal and one vertical. My son made sure I got the sequence correct, before stitching it back into the flag body. the staff was broken at the bottom portion of the flag, so I shortened the broken section by 1" in order to center the break into the body of flag, providing more structural integrity to the unit. |
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| The second part of the repair was restitching the broken threads. |
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| I could not fit the tiny stitches under my industrial sewing machine, so rather than make the repair by hand, I cut a new 12oz vinyl section and stitched it over the existing white pole sleeve, using T-69 industrial thread. |
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| Aligned and tacked up and ready to stitch. |
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| all done, in time for school. I asked my son if he was the one who broke the flag, but he said no, Christian tried to make a catapult and broke it. My son just offered to help, because he knew we could, and that's the way it should be. |
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Decaleur
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| There are a few different decaleur styles and makers. Compass, Velo Orange, and Berthoud seem to be the most common choice. All images are borrowed without permission. |
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| Modified decaleur issues here. |
