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My rat had some very long standing shoulder issues which were being managed with BPC157; that allowed it to at least do the exercises needed to help recover, but with very, very slow progress. Without BPC157 it would just get worse

In the past CJC1295 with Dac and no Dac were tried. This did improve sleep, but didn't noticably help the shoulder. Recently HGH was tried and it seemed to really help, the exercises were able to progress to significantly heavier weights and it was able to do more general resistance exercises and progress those. To the point we stopped using BPC157.

Unfortunately in the UK, so far we've now not been able to find any good HGH sources for the rat recently so

I've just got some of the new Eisenlink dumbbells that have the extra 0.5kg add-on plates.

The fixed plates either side of the handle are slightly loose. I presume it's not a big issue with the main big screw doing the real 'work', but should this be tightened anyway? There's 4 allen head bolts holding them on to the handle.

I ordered "San Martin Jubilee Bracelet Stainless Steel Watch Parts with Fly Adjustable Clasp For SN0121 SN0008 SN0128". I paid £50.93 after coupons etc and got 35% cashback from topcashback so £33.10 after everything.

It doesn't come with spring bars, so I nabbed some from a cheap Addiesdive diver, as the WD1969 Pro ones have the little handles each side.

Fitted vs original Bracelet

It's not a perfect fit, but not far off.

SEL mismatch

The OTF clas

Hadn't noticed some insurance had old card details for renewal. They just sent messages saying "Important Information about your policy", which got lost in the usual spammy stuff you get; I was away at the time and super busy.

Only realised when I got a debt collection agency email that actually said "Insurance cancelled..."

And this included a standard £40 charge from the insurer. Rang up the insurer and just hassled them about it, asking them to explain why they didn't use a sensible email subject or try and call me. And that I'd like to talk to a manager if they couldn't tell me why. They eventually gave in and removed the extra charge.

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Just for general information to save others the trouble, thought I'd try it. The Watchdives bracelet is a bit lacking and the Cronos is noticeably better, as well as having an OTF clasp as standard so could be a nice upgrade.

I was noting the similarities between the two, which are available with some similar dials, (though I don't have those dials) and thought I might as well. It does work this way around, but there's a little too much gap for my liking. I don't see why you'd want to do it the other way around and put the cheap feeling Watchdives bracelet on the more ex

DVLA lets you click 'no' to renewing the lorry part, and carry on then says their service can't do it.

Of course I'm not allowed to drive until they receive my renewal and there aren't any post offices that do it that close to me.

I will renew the lorry part at some point, but no particular need to right now and have to get a medical now, because I got old.

I've had a One-R since 2020 and for the most part it's fine. Generally at most I'll uploadto my personal social media and share with others on a trip.

But there are some situations where it's a bit limited - snowboarding where others can be quite far away, you lose a good bit of detail zooming in, for instance.

I was wondering about the One RS 1-inch 360 version. There's some okay used prices and it seems in plenty of areas to hold up or even beat the X5 and other brands latest offerings.

It is pretty heavy and if I'm going a bit faster, rather than filming slower people I prefer to have a camera helmet mounted - fine on a selfie stick if I'm more relaxed. But then the X5 isn't light

This is for actual 'mods' rather than making a fresh watch from scratch - I've got at a couple of watches that I could make slimmer with me using a VH31 or Precisionist movement. One by quite a lot which I think would improve it noticeably (I guess case was intended to have a NH35, although it came with a cheap quartz).

So far I've only really found places either selling them as replacements for specific models, or for some common seiko-mod cases.

The super deep one is a snap-in with a 34mm OD on the part inserted into the watch, ideally I'd get a replacement that's pretty much flat. Also need a screw in for a Rolex Sub style case (and I'd prefer to swap to one with seiko style gaps to