What Have You Fettled Today?
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Scotchlovingcylist
Formerly known as Speedfreak
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
Someone kindly lent me the Brompton reamer (no longer sold to end users, only dealers), so I reamed the new bushes and put the S6L back together. It is perfect - moves freely but absolutely no play. The last one a shop did for me was fractionally tight.
As you can see, I added a grease port. It's M6 threaded so I can temporarily screw in a grease nipple if I want to use a high pressure grease gun (the threads aren't deep enough to withstand a grease gun being yanked off the nipple, but the nipple can be unscrewed with the gun still attached, and the blanking screw replaced). As I know the bushes are slathered in marine grease right now, I just pumped the tube full so there is no space for water to enter.
As you can see, I added a grease port. It's M6 threaded so I can temporarily screw in a grease nipple if I want to use a high pressure grease gun (the threads aren't deep enough to withstand a grease gun being yanked off the nipple, but the nipple can be unscrewed with the gun still attached, and the blanking screw replaced). As I know the bushes are slathered in marine grease right now, I just pumped the tube full so there is no space for water to enter.
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FrankCrank
Old layabout
The puncture fairy struck, this time on my LWB. Anyways, gave me a chance to see if it fits into my recently made stand - works a treat. Using the LWB each evening, new action camera clamps easily to the handlebars. Makes for a steady perch, and nearly at eye level.
The new camera novelty will soon wear off, then I can alternate with rides on the trike, that should stop it sulking
The new camera novelty will soon wear off, then I can alternate with rides on the trike, that should stop it sulking
DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
Laptop upgrading. This one's a Dell Studio XPS 1640. It came with a Core 2 Duo T6600, 2M L2 cache, 800MHz FSB, @ 2.2GHz. First step, upgrade CPU to Core 2 Duo T9550, 6M L2 cache, 1066 MHz FSB, @2.66 GHz. I probably won't notice much difference, but it takes it to almost the top of the processor tree. Now needs RAM upping to 8GB and, that would be useful, a battery!
battered
Guru
Fettled a Trek Cane Creek hybrid. I've started volunteering for a bike charity, someone had donated this in a worn out state. It now has new chain, cassette, chainrings, brakes, tyres and a cable or two. It's cleaned up and will be put out for sale this week. It's going to be a decent bike for someone, which is nice because as it sat it was beyond economic repair but now it's a running bike.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Garage sales in my neighborhood over the weekend. While cleaning the garage, my neighbors threw out an old Raleigh Rampar R1027, and I picked it up out of the gutter.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Google shows a racer and BMX version. Which one have you got?
DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
Added/ swapped a few bits.
New front tyre on the Scott.
Change bottle cage on Revell from
to
Put removed cage next to its sibling on the Scott.
..except I forgot to take an 'after' pic. D'oh...
Then there's this:
This is under each end of my Oxford Aquatech 2-bike cover. Now, I swear that the instructions said that the bikes should face opposite ends, and it certainly works fine that way. Now I'm not so sure...
Ah well.
New front tyre on the Scott.
Change bottle cage on Revell from
to
Put removed cage next to its sibling on the Scott.
..except I forgot to take an 'after' pic. D'oh...
Then there's this:
This is under each end of my Oxford Aquatech 2-bike cover. Now, I swear that the instructions said that the bikes should face opposite ends, and it certainly works fine that way. Now I'm not so sure...
Ah well.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
The racer. With Pletscher rack, Bluemels shortie fenders, and a dynamo light
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
And a whole lot of rust on the components, but none on the frame.
Punkawallah
Über Member
Packing the panniers for a coast to coast trundle.
Or, rather, packing, then unpacking, then packing again :-)
Or, rather, packing, then unpacking, then packing again :-)
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Not bike-related, although I've started work on the Dawes Galaxy AL and Raleigh Strada I picked up last week, but door-related.
The lever on our patio door stopped working last week. SWMBO announced that this meant we needed an entire new double-width patio door
Now, I'm not from Yorkshire but have been here for well over 20 years. I'm guessing some of that must have rubbed off by now
. So ... I took the handle and lock apart, discovering what had broken was a small lever-type piece of plastic. Lots of heavy, solid steel door handle/lock and it's controlled by a cheap piece of plastic.
I found it on eBay at £3 and ordered 3 of them just in case. Well ... you never know! They arrived and this time are solid metal with a grub screw to tighten.
Duly fitted to both sides, replacing the other side's cheap piece of plastic, and adjusted - it all works
. The lever now feels much more 'solid', and therefore we don't need a new patio door
Bike fettling to resume tomorrow after grasstrack racing, when I'll send an update on both bikes.
The lever on our patio door stopped working last week. SWMBO announced that this meant we needed an entire new double-width patio door
Now, I'm not from Yorkshire but have been here for well over 20 years. I'm guessing some of that must have rubbed off by now
. So ... I took the handle and lock apart, discovering what had broken was a small lever-type piece of plastic. Lots of heavy, solid steel door handle/lock and it's controlled by a cheap piece of plastic.I found it on eBay at £3 and ordered 3 of them just in case. Well ... you never know! They arrived and this time are solid metal with a grub screw to tighten.
Duly fitted to both sides, replacing the other side's cheap piece of plastic, and adjusted - it all works
. The lever now feels much more 'solid', and therefore we don't need a new patio door Bike fettling to resume tomorrow after grasstrack racing, when I'll send an update on both bikes.
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biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Fitted some Marathon's to my latest Koga arrival
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Just a bit of cleaning & lubricating on a couple of the most used bikes in the fleet. While cleaning the main commuter a few areas needing attention were identified - a new wheelset needed (see here), new tyres needed (rear worn to a flat profile, front can't see the wear guide holes) & bar tape to be replaced (horibly grubby).
