What Have You Fettled Today?

[Scotchlovingcylist]

Those of a nervous disposition should look away now.....
Came out of the shops to find my rack mount bolt had sheared off, not sure if someone has been rough with it or what to be honest.
Drilled out the broken bolt, threads done in and not enough purchase to get a decent tap through, so.......
Is now sporting a decent tek bolt. Seems to be holding, time will tell.......

 

[Gunk]

Tomorrow I need to strip down the rear-hub/freewheel
(Mavic Aksyium)

It's slipping, presumably the pawls aren't engaging?

good squirt with WD40 usually frees them

 

[Gunk]

Too much power in your legs

I definitely don’t have that problem

 

[C R]

I definitely don’t have that problem

Me neither

 

[GeekDadZoid]

Too much power in your legs

Would be nice to have too much power 🙂

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

good squirt with WD40 usually frees them

A mixture of that & 'good old' 3 in 1

 

[DCLane]

Cleaned my Raleigh Pioneer and son no. 2's Columbus X-Wing after use this week whilst he did his homework.

The rear mech on his BeOne's been playing up for a bit. Swapped it for a spare Dura-Ace one and a new gear cable. It looks like the current one has been clogged with gunk after 7000 miles so it'll go in the ultrasonic cleaner. Hopefully that'll solve the problem with it not rotating back, leaving a loose chain.

 

[cyberknight]

mate got my mangled crank arm off , i planned to put the new one on but cant be bothered today

 

[Oldhippy]

I tightened the skewer on my front wheel and adjusted my handlebars by a gnats wingspan.

 

[cyberknight]

finished replacing the chainset on the commuter, replaced the brakes on the latest rebuild as thecam that allows you to get the wheels out had packed up and also had a bit of a tidy up of the spares .

 

[ColinJ]

I sorted out a hob knob (as opposed to a Hobnob)!

I had dropped a tin of beans on one of the control knobs on my gas hob. The innermost part of the knob was broken by the impact and the knob fell off.

I ordered some new 'universal' knobs from Amazon which claimed that they could be made to fit the controls on most hobs by using replaceable inserts. Sure enough, one of the inserts did the job.

Unfortunately, I had overlooked the fact that the original knobs have concentric collars underneath. The outer collar presses down on a small lever when the knob is pressed down and that operates the ignition circuit. I could turn the gas on with the new knob but not light it that way. (I could actually light the gas by pressing one of the other knobs down since all knobs operate the same ignition circuit, but I wanted the new knob to work properly.)

Then I noticed that the collar on the broken knob looked like it would be a snug fit round the collar holding the insert in the new knob. I used my trusty hacksaw to cut the broken knob up and extracted a length of the plastic collar. Yes - a perfect fit on the new knob. I had to fiddle with it slightly to get the positioning right but now the new knob is working perfectly!

OCD-suffering members may be appalled to hear that the new knob doesn't quite match the 3 remaining old ones. I could repeat the operation and convert the other 3 knobs but then I wouldn't have any spares in case of future breakages. I'll leave it as it is for now. If the mismatch starts to bother me then I can sort the problem out later.

 

[Cycleops]

Can't claim any fettling personally but I took this aluminium Claude Butler to my local repairer. I bought it for the boy in the pics a while ago.
He says a few people borrowed it and made a mess of it. The RD was completely smashed,so that needed replacing as well as cables. One pedal was broken.
Here people tend to borrow others bikes and because it doesn't belong to them so treat it any how.
There was a problem with the adjustable stem which had developed a lot of play. I couldn't get it out and neither could Joe.
You can just see my Trek in the background

 

[biggs682]

Had an hour starting my swap the wheels around on a few of my bikes.

My old R.E.W Reynolds had a set of non descript wienmann rimmed wheels fitted and I had a spare set of Mavic M40 with campag hubs so the Mavics have gone on the R.E.W complete with some new 23mm gatorskins and the wienmanns have gone on the Sinclair.

At some point in the future I need to get my Hope hubbed wheels fettled and then they can go on the Hardisty or that's the current plan

 

[bagpuss]

^^^Love hope hubs . The 4 pawls on the rear is like aswram of bees when free wheeling !!^^^

 

[GeekDadZoid]

New inserts for the Brompton, rear where almost at the wear line, the front had a fair bit left but made sense to swap the two. Gone for Fibrax ones.

Also done a hack on the mini rack to strengthen the rear wheels and also provide a light mount. Quite low but I have on on my saddle bag or seat post too.