What Have You Fettled Today?

[Shearwater Missile]

Whenever I try, I somehow end up with a spring, 2 washers, and a strange little metal plate that I forgot to put back in!

I am always amazed at programs like The Repair Shop when they take things apart, ie clocks. If I did that and then put it back together, even if it did work I`am sure the clock would go backwards. But then there is nothing like going back in time !

 

[EckyH]

Unraveled the mystery of the TPU leakage.
Turns out that I've had overseen a second puncture and applied the patch so that the second puncture was very near to the edge of the patch. With little pressure the adhesive power was strong enough to keep the patch and the inner tube together and therefore I couldn't find the leakage. But with high pressure within the tyre the pressure from the inside was stronger than the adhesive power and the air creeped out.
Unfortunately I couldn't remove the adhesive from the first patch completely, so the subsequent attempts to patch it were unsuccessful.

On the plus side: Now I know that TPU inner tubes can handle a bit more pressure than anticipated to locate the punctures and the many tyre-off-tyre-on-tyre-off-tyre-on in the last two days were good practise for changing tyres.

E.