Workshop moments
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Workshop moments
Postby trailgumby » Sat Feb 09, 2013 7:50 pm
Let me start the ball rolling...
Was changing my RD cable and housing, as it had died after a year's flogging in all weather commuting. Just enough time to get it done before hitting the hay to try and catch up on some sleep, as I'd really been suffering in this department the last few weeks.
Put the seat tube in the work stand, pulled out the cable stops, cut the new sections of outer to length and threaded through the teflon sealing sleeve, and was just about to put it all together and realised I was short one cable stop. After uttering several cuss-words and searching everywhere for 20 minutes with my trail lights to provide extra illumination, I resigned myself to fudging up a new one out of an old biro tube with one end melted closed and the other flared out. Took about 20 minutes to get it right.
Wasn't a perfect fit, but good enough to get me back on the road the following day.
Bumped the frame trying to push it into place.
The old one dropped on the floor.
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby Mulger bill » Sun Feb 10, 2013 9:09 am
BTDT but I'm not 'fessing up
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby find_bruce » Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:05 am
Do we need to send around Oprah, or would you prefer Dr Phil ?Mulger bill wrote:BTDT but I'm not 'fessing up
Rather than point out my too numerous to list failings, perhaps I should just point out that the other weekend I replaced a hollowtech II bracket without damaging myself, the tools, the bike or the part. These facts make it a standout success in my book
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby il padrone » Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:15 am
Measured and cut the cables. Fitted up and looking for the cable anchors in the shifter drum, did the first one - "What? No anchor in the second hole??"
"Oh no I've dropped it somehow"
Spent a good deal of time searching the floor. No joy. Damn it was so tiny, it's gone. Went upstairs and checked SJS website, they have spare drums, so I order one. Then I am checking the manual and see that the two anchor grub-screws go in reverse sides It was there all the time just the hex-key was the other side
Then I set up the cables finally. BUT I left the cable adjuster barrels out........ Luckily I was able to re-fit the cables (a notorious no-go for the Rohloff set-up)
And then, to top it off, the two cables are reversed No worries really, the gear shifting works, just to this day my wife has a top gear labelled as Gear 1 and bottom gear is 14
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby Jean » Sun Feb 10, 2013 12:38 pm
A tip for young players: never do jobs like this when your kids are bouncing around you asking question after question and generally distracting you. This is the sort of thing that happens. I need to build a wheel today, but with my wife at work and me solo parenting, I don't dare start it.
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby ironhanglider » Sun Feb 10, 2013 4:37 pm
Is this the replacement rim for your dead Ambrosio? If the original is still built you do know that you can put the new rim next to the old one and just walk the spokes across to the new rim one at a time? You just need to loosen the all the spokes nearly all the way first and I do it with all the spokes on the near hub flange first and then the second.
Just hoping to head off another 'moment'.
Cheers,
Cameron
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby WestcoastPete » Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:32 pm
Just so you know; a bike won't stand up by leaning on just one leg on Plescher two legged stand.
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby Jean » Sun Feb 10, 2013 8:02 pm
No the seatpost moment was last year when building up my new MTB. I forgot to mention that I compounded the seatpost drama by temporarily replacing it with a cheapie post from EBbay, which started bending from my first ride. I now have a nice reliable, non-bending Ritchey post and all is good in my MTB world.ironhanglider wrote:Hey Jean,
Is this the replacement rim for your dead Ambrosio? If the original is still built you do know that you can put the new rim next to the old one and just walk the spokes across to the new rim one at a time? You just need to loosen the all the spokes nearly all the way first and I do it with all the spokes on the near hub flange first and then the second.
Just hoping to head off another 'moment'.
Cheers,
Cameron
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby Saturnstarzz » Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:02 pm
Or not reading brake pads properly and installing them backwards
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby twizzle » Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:46 pm
NOTE: This is a $120 frame, it's not like the end of the world.
...real cyclists don't have squeaky chains...
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby il padrone » Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:34 pm
Just whip it all off.... for that classic aged patinatwizzle wrote:I decided I'd just remove the decals - really fiddly, and when trying to get the glue off it turned out that the paint was easier to remove than the decals. I gave up at that point.
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby outnabike » Mon Feb 11, 2013 4:37 pm
Suddenly on top of the wheel a movement, the biggest legs of the biggest spider are starting to move. Frightened the hell out of me, then I realized they were my own fingers......relief...
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby drubie » Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:37 pm
#1
Bought a set of 2nd hand ergo shifters from this very forum, went to fit them some months afterwards only to discover one of the plastic parts that fits between the bars and the lever is missing from the shifter. Much swearing and cursing of the seller followed by an order to bikewagoncat on ebay for the missing part.
2 months later, cleaning out the shed, I look in the bottom of the empty post bag to check something isn't in there. Guess what I found?
#2
Building up a single speed MTB for fun, was suffering a bit from insomnia so I figured I would rattle around in my bike shed for an hour to put me to sleep rather than disturb the rest of the family with the TV. Went to install the crankset cups and damned if they wouldn't screw in. I tried force, lube, figured maybe the stupid salvaged frame from the tip was in fact italian threaded (OK, that must have been a hallucination). Of course I was trying to fit the cups the wrong way around. Went to bed at that point.
#3
Put the teeth of a chainring through the bottom of my palm trying to remove a stuck pedal. The scar is a beautiful little triangle.
#4
Carbon frame starts making a horrible cracking noise when I ride it. Take it to the LBS in a panic. $60 later they inform me the headset was a bit tight, which I should have simply checked myself if I hadn't panicked.
but really, that's rubbish. We get none of it because the choices are illusory.
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby WestcoastPete » Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:52 pm
Pretty sure you're not the only one to have done this one (or any of the others I guess). Mine didn't scar up though; I'll have to try harder next time...drubie wrote:
#3
Put the teeth of a chainring through the bottom of my palm trying to remove a stuck pedal. The scar is a beautiful little triangle.
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby trailgumby » Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:59 pm
Had a near miss on that one myselfWestcoastPete wrote:Pretty sure you're not the only one to have done this one (or any of the others I guess). Mine didn't scar up though; I'll have to try harder next time...drubie wrote:
#3
Put the teeth of a chainring through the bottom of my palm trying to remove a stuck pedal. The scar is a beautiful little triangle.
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby drubie » Sat Feb 16, 2013 9:06 pm
You don't want to do it. For one it really, really hurts. Then, cleaning the grease and sand out of the wound is bloody torture. Still not as bad as the time I once accidentally needled myself with sheep vaccine (wow did that swell up!), or cut the side of my finger on a glass doing the washing up.trailgumby wrote:Had a near miss on that one myselfWestcoastPete wrote:Pretty sure you're not the only one to have done this one (or any of the others I guess). Mine didn't scar up though; I'll have to try harder next time...drubie wrote:
#3
Put the teeth of a chainring through the bottom of my palm trying to remove a stuck pedal. The scar is a beautiful little triangle.
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but really, that's rubbish. We get none of it because the choices are illusory.
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby __PG__ » Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:15 pm
..except that I had the flashy Yokozuna cable in the housing at the time
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby jasonc » Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:16 pm
don't stop there. oh. wait.__PG__ wrote:Well last night I was cutting my flashy Yokozuna brake housing for my flashy new bike..
..except that I had the flashy Yokozuna cable in the housing at the time
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby m@ » Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:00 pm
Also may have been a bit over-enthusiastic when pruning the bars on my Anthem, though at least I haven't clipped any trees lately
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby Saturnstarzz » Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:25 pm
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby kukamunga » Thu Apr 18, 2013 8:07 pm
^ .....onto a set of old steel drop-bars for my Project Kuwahara Cross Coaster
Finally get the bike altogether and running and wonder why the shifting aint quite right
Ooops! I should've fitted the Nexus 3 Revo-shifter that came with the Nexus 3-speed hub instead!
Ends up the Nexus shifter is quite simple to dismantle and fit and takes all of an hour or so to get right
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby bychosis » Fri Apr 26, 2013 7:27 am
Similar with MTB, horrible crackling noise from frame when pedalling, spent ages going over the frame with a fine tooth comb, checking the bushes, loading it up from every direction etc (didn't get to the LBS tough). Gave up, rode it again, same noise. Finally I dropped the chain off and spun the cranks - not smooth. New BB ordered. One cup off, test it, felt OK. Next cup off, test it, felt smooth. Apparently it dosn't take much of a rumble in the bearings to sound like your frame is falling apart.drubie wrote: #4
Carbon frame starts making a horrible cracking noise when I ride it. Take it to the LBS in a panic. $60 later they inform me the headset was a bit tight, which I should have simply checked myself if I hadn't panicked.
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby CXCommuter » Fri Apr 26, 2013 4:16 pm
After all of this I discovered the bottom bracket needs retapping for which I don't have a tool and needs booking into the LBS.
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Re: Workshop moments
Postby ironhanglider » Thu Aug 15, 2013 6:33 pm
I also ordered a couple of spares which came taped together with sticky tape. All good so far...
Then I grabbed a rag to clean off the sticky residue from the tape, which happened to be my polishing rag and was co-located with the Brasso. Gee they look nice polished I say.
Now I'm going to have to spend ages polishing 80 of the them (tandem wheels).
Cheers,
Cameron
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