LeetleGreyCells
Un rouleur infatigable
- Location
- Whitehaven Mansions
Came home to be told my wife's car had a flat tyre. Flat swapped for spare. My wife will take the flat to the garage tomorrow to be repaired (nail in the centre of the tread).
What Have You Fettled Today?
- Thread starter threebikesmcginty
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rogerzilla
Legendary Member
For what it's worth, this is what V-brakes should look like. More like an H than a V! The fat spacers had been fitted on the pad side of the arms, meaning there was about an inch of cable between the rubber boot and the opposite arm.
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
The Moulton came back from the powdercoaters (it's pretty good, for powdercoat) so I re-riveted the rear suspension block. Not easy at all - the holes have to be exactly lined up in a piece of 1965 metal that has now been bent three times (once at the factory, once to get it off and once to get it back on). But it's done, and I've touched up the paint.
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Bike accessories fettling today. Having bought a Garmin Varia a few weeks back I have been using a below top bar bag instead of a saddle bag. Depending where I put the below top bar bag my left leg caught it to differing extents. Postie turned up today with a new quick release Bontanger saddle bag and 3D printed saddle bag compatible Varia mount. Both fitted, the 3D one on the upward angle of the saddle bars and the saddle bag as normal.
DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
Today I replaced the stem on the Revell mixte. It's a vintage 1" threaded job, fitted until now with a low 80mm SR stem, which almost certainly was fitted with drops originally.
Now has a much taller post, with a 60mm riser stem. In fact it is too large an item really. At a reasonable height, it's as low as it will go, and the wedge is almost visible under the fork crown. But it has done what I wanted, and made the fit similar to the Scott.
Comparison
Shiny.
No idea when I'll get to ride it!
Now has a much taller post, with a 60mm riser stem. In fact it is too large an item really. At a reasonable height, it's as low as it will go, and the wedge is almost visible under the fork crown. But it has done what I wanted, and made the fit similar to the Scott.
Comparison
Shiny.
No idea when I'll get to ride it!
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I'd be concerned if the wedge is as high as you say, you don't want that to slip.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I don't know if applying electrical tape counts as fettling but every time I used my Varia on my TT bike (mostly in training) it done this:
I used it for the first time on a TT last week and was impressed with how much more visible it looked, so I did this:
Not really pretty or aero but there's only one TT left for me so sourcing something better can wait till next year.
I used it for the first time on a TT last week and was impressed with how much more visible it looked, so I did this:
Not really pretty or aero but there's only one TT left for me so sourcing something better can wait till next year.
Punkawallah
Über Member
Tape of any type always counts :-)
Finally got rid of my saddle creak by rubbing the rails with grease. Let's see if it continues in silence . . .
Collected from the post office and swapped out the chain ring on the Galaxy. 52/42 down to 48/34. Still keeping the bigger ones for when the rings on the Renown go ;-)
Finally got rid of my saddle creak by rubbing the rails with grease. Let's see if it continues in silence . . .
Collected from the post office and swapped out the chain ring on the Galaxy. 52/42 down to 48/34. Still keeping the bigger ones for when the rings on the Renown go ;-)
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
My Lenovo 100s Ideapad has always had a slightly iffy keyboard, but it's got a lot, lot worse over the last few years.
Changing the keyboard means taking the entire laptop to bits.
How hard can it possibly be?
Before...
OK, break out the Precision Screwdriver of Destiny, and let us begin!
Mid-fettle...
It's amazing how big the battery is (big black thing in middle, white text on it) compared to the actual computing bit (blueish thing on the right with barcode sticker).
A new keyboard was under a tenner of the Bay of E. It's underneath just about everything in there...
After.
Ideapads come in a few colours, with either a black or white keyboard.
White ones have a white keyboard, so of course I was going to fit a black keyboard. Because I can!
Sadly, the keyboard is still rubbish. I now suspect the keyboard driver chip is a bit knacked.
That's a surface-mount component, and I don't have the part, or the kit to rework it.
I have also come to accept that my eyesight is no longer up to precision electronic work. After my retinal bleed in May 2008, my depth perception at close range is shot, and my now-dominant eye has heavy astigmatism. I can correct the astigmatism with a contact lens, but I just can't do close-up stuff anymore.
However. I have taken my laptop to bits, and reassembled it, and it still works! Considering it cost me £83 in 2016, and I'm happily running a business on it, it's doing OK.
Changing the keyboard means taking the entire laptop to bits.
How hard can it possibly be?
Before...
OK, break out the Precision Screwdriver of Destiny, and let us begin!
Mid-fettle...
It's amazing how big the battery is (big black thing in middle, white text on it) compared to the actual computing bit (blueish thing on the right with barcode sticker).
A new keyboard was under a tenner of the Bay of E. It's underneath just about everything in there...
After.
Ideapads come in a few colours, with either a black or white keyboard.
White ones have a white keyboard, so of course I was going to fit a black keyboard. Because I can!
Sadly, the keyboard is still rubbish. I now suspect the keyboard driver chip is a bit knacked.
That's a surface-mount component, and I don't have the part, or the kit to rework it.
I have also come to accept that my eyesight is no longer up to precision electronic work. After my retinal bleed in May 2008, my depth perception at close range is shot, and my now-dominant eye has heavy astigmatism. I can correct the astigmatism with a contact lens, but I just can't do close-up stuff anymore.
However. I have taken my laptop to bits, and reassembled it, and it still works! Considering it cost me £83 in 2016, and I'm happily running a business on it, it's doing OK.
DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
keithmac
Guru
She's a runner but far from finished..
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dDxU4cElsk4&feature=youtu.be
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dDxU4cElsk4&feature=youtu.be
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
I've continued working on the Kingpin I bought a few weeks ago; new chain and the rear wheel's been cleaned and oiled, with a swap for the correct white Brooks saddle (one came in a pile of bike bits I was given). Just a tyre/tube swap to the original rear wheel from 7/1986 and that's this bike done with photo to follow.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Not directly on the bike but...
I cut down an old hex key so I can tighten up my bike stand more easily: previously I've had to use the ball end of a hex key because the bolt it is tucked down under the gear mech, so the socket was getting wrecked.
Now the stand is tight, the bolt is not getting damaged, everyone is happy.
I cut down an old hex key so I can tighten up my bike stand more easily: previously I've had to use the ball end of a hex key because the bolt it is tucked down under the gear mech, so the socket was getting wrecked.
Now the stand is tight, the bolt is not getting damaged, everyone is happy.
