What Have You Fettled Today?

[lazybloke]

My wife's car: The ignition lights came on just fine, but the dashboard lights flashed like a Jean Michel Jarre concert when I tried to turn over the engine, together with muck clicking from relays.

Battery voltage was close to 9 volts; dead cell. 10 minute job to replace it; once i'd taken the other car to collect the new battery.

That's the 2nd time the battery has died in thus car. Got the 1st replaced under warranty, amazingly.

The battery in the other car has been reporting "low voltage" for well over a year but hasn't let me down yet!

 

[itboffin]

More caliper cleaning resetting and another new set of pads and still there’s rubbing, but not all the time which makes me think it must be the rotor, which looks perfectly flat 🤷‍♂️

 

[PeteXXX]

Rrar mudguard successfully delivered to the correct house this lunchtime!
It will be fitted this afternoon.

I'll maybe keep the old one that's given way around the bridge bracket area and fix it up as a 'just in case' spare.

 

[Elybazza61]

Started stripping the old Trek commuter as it's unlikely to get used for anything (it's only about 10 minutes walk to the shops) and it's taking up space so started on the dismantling ; probably move the parts on and toss the frame in the loft.
Also have a Tern folder that I need to decide to keep or not.

 

[EckyH]

Began the buildup of the replacement for the Surly preamble - inserted the bottom bracket, attached the cranks, pedals, headset, rear and front derailleur.

E.

 

[VinSumRox]

Cleaning up cassettes and bits for bike Jumble on Saturday and put the wheels with big tyres on the gravel bike for the morning ride.

 

[HLaB]

Back on the road. I played for an hour or so with the broken shifter on my commuter everything was moving freely but the release lever wasn't springing back internally when you shift up the cog. It could be pushed back freely internally and then it shifted down the cog fine. But it would do the same when shifted up the cog and you would again have to manually reset internally. I obviously couldn't do that on a ride so I had sourced 10sp shifters from a mate. Its 105 shifters and I had nice internally routed 10sp Ultegra. Hence the determination to get it working but I had to give up and fit the 10sp 105. Its mechanically fine but for now I have only changed the right shifter and reused the old bar tape. If I decide to make it permanent and fit the left shifter, bar tape is there. But for now it was just a case of getting back on the road.