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[mickle]

Thanks, glad someone noticed.

 

[Dave5N]

And how do you feel about that?

 

[spandex]

Spandex, private word?

The Hozan tool pictured isn't his, the image was posted as an example.

Carry on.

Now you tell me

spandex they sell it at hubjub.co.uk

I know but I like the old/used tools the older better.

 

[mickle]

Well. My father didn't love me and yet imposed his expectations on me, so whilst berating me for not choosing a career path of which he approved it was abundantly clear that he really didn't give a shoot about me. His idea of what a father should be was, of course, based on his disfunctional relationship with his own father who was absent for most of the war and returned to a household where my father had taken on the role of Alpha male/ spoilt brat. He became an arrogant, self centred, racist bigot with delusions of granduer. An intelligent man and practical but bitter, insecure, quick to anger and violent. He found it impossible to ever consider that he might be wrong on any subject and made himself feel bigger by putting others down. So i gave up on him as soon as was old enough to do so. I had no communication with him for decades at a time. Over the years friends and family encouraged me to attempt a reunion with him, you know that whole '......but if he dies and you didn't try you'll never forgive yourself....' So I did, I saw him three times. I figured that so many different people couldn't be wrong, so I tried, but it was obvious to both of us that there was nothing there, not a sausage. We were strangers to each other. I suppose I'm glad that I did try but deep down I know that I was right all along. They thought it was a shame that I 'had fallen out' with my father but actually, and what they didn't realise was that he never really was a father to me so I lost nothing by having nothing to do with him. You can't lose what you've never had. My mother on the other hand loved me unconditionally and only wanted me to 'be happy'. Looking back I wonder if her low expectations combined with my fathers pointless expectations; 'you're no son of mine unless you join the services' (FFS ) contributed to my lack of motivation viz a viz a 'career'. I suspect that my lack of ambition was a big two fingered salute to my father. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. So the fact that you didn't mention the change to my sig. earlier rekindled all those feelings of inadequacy. I decided long ago not to be like my father, to be a kind and gentle man and in that moment of rejection, by deliberately not aknowledging my sig. change you just threw it all back in my face Dave5N.

 

[Dave5N]

Well. My father didn't love me and yet imposed his expectations on me, so whilst berating me for not choosing a career path of which he approved it was abundantly clear that he really didn't give a shoot about me. His idea of what a father should be was, of course, based on his disfunctional relationship with his own father who was absent for most of the war and returned to a household where my father had taken on the role of Alpha male/ spoilt brat. He became an arrogant, self centred, racist bigot with delusions of granduer. An intelligent man and practical but bitter, insecure, quick to anger and violent. He found it impossible to ever consider that he might be wrong on any subject and made himself feel bigger by putting others down. So i gave up on him as soon as was old enough to do so. I had no communication with him for decades at a time. Over the years friends and family encouraged me to attempt a reunion with him, you know that whole '......but if he dies and you didn't try you'll never forgive yourself....' So I did, I saw him three times. I figured that so many different people couldn't be wrong, so I tried, but it was obvious to both of us that there was nothing there, not a sausage. We were strangers to each other. I suppose I'm glad that I did try but deep down I know that I was right all along. They thought it was a shame that I 'had fallen out' with my father but actually, and what they didn't realise was that he never really was a father to me so I lost nothing by having nothing to do with him. You can't lose what you've never had. My mother on the other hand loved me unconditionally and only wanted me to 'be happy'. Looking back I wonder if her low expectations combined with my fathers pointless expectations; 'you're no son of mine unless you join the services' (FFS ) contributed to my lack of motivation viz a viz a 'career'. I suspect that my lack of ambition was a big two fingered salute to my father. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. So the fact that you didn't mention the change to my sig. earlier rekindled all those feelings of inadequacy. I decided long ago not to be like my father, to be a kind and gentle man and in that moment of rejection, by deliberately not aknowledging my sig. change you just threw it all back in my face Dave5N.

And how do you feel about that?

 

[mickle]

Better now thanks.

 

[Dave5N]

Good. I do experience a sense of deeper awareness in you. Same time next week?


That'll be £310 please.

 

[peanut]

If you're not fussed about saving the current BB, and you're planning on putting a cartridge BB in, then save your pennies and bodge it out. In my experience (including 3 years working in a LBS) there is no such thing as a "one size fits all" lockring spanner, and as such you may as well just attack it with a hammer, chisel and mole grips.

ok maybe if you have a reasonable amount of skill and experience at using heavy tools on lightweight metal components set in very thin tubing.
Very easy to make a complete mess of it and ruin your frame as well.
Its not worth the risk when you can get the correct tool for the job or take the bike to any local bike shop where they will remove the cups and charge maybe £5.00 for 2 minutes work.

 

[mickle]

look again

Unless I am very much mistaked that's a ferrous frame.

 

[bonj2]

Sorry, but seriously, if you have no intention of re-using the BB just batter it off, cold chisel and lump hammer, mole grips, adjustable pin tool, lock-ring spanner. Whatever. They'll all do it. It's a three minute job so if you'll just please stop fannying about and get it done we can move on to another topic. Thanks.

it was dave5n's fault for throwing confusioninto the mix with his talk of multiple things to unscrew and thecompletely unnecessary, wrong, notion that i'dneed some tool that may or maynot be sold in lidl.

Unless I am very much mistaked that's a ferrous frame.

it's steel obviously, it was made before aluminium was invented.

 

[Dave5N]

Before 1825?

And you did have two things to unscrew. That's a multiple. There are many ways to remove the cup. Someone else posted a picture ot the tool for it. I told you that Lidl sells them.

I know that's true because that is where I bought one of mine.

 

[Dave5N]

Oh and Aluminium is a naturally occurring element. You can't invent it. Just discover it. Or in this case, isolate it.

 

[Steve Austin]

I would imagine that aluminium would have evolved. Started out as baby alumis and became fully grown aluminium over a few thousand years.

Anyway about this BB. A bored orang-utan could have removed it by now with his bare fingers, so have we shifted it?

 

[Dave5N]

I would imagine that aluminium would have evolved. Started out as baby alumis and became fully grown aluminium over a few thousand years.

Anyway about this BB. A bored orang-utan could have removed it by now with his bare fingers, so have we shifted it?

Mate, do you not know just how strong Orang-Utans are?

Never mind the Alumis. No Lidls in Borneo. The Orange Utans had to evolve or walk.

 

[bonj2]

Before 1825?

And you did have two things to unscrew. That's a multiple. There are many ways to remove the cup. Someone else posted a picture ot the tool for it. I told you that Lidl sells them.

I know that's true because that is where I bought one of mine.

well we'll have to see about that. You don't sound too sure yourself of exactly WHAT thereis to unscrew once the BB lockringis off, so i'd probably better just have a go at it and see what is in there.