What Have You Fettled Today?

[ColinJ]

Not exactly 'fettling', but I use my phone on my bike rides so I will mention the weird problem I just fixed!

My phone battery charge had been getting very low and I couldn't understand why.

At home I charge the phone wirelessly. I noticed that the charge was low so I put it on the charging platform and walked away, hearing the usual charging chiming sound as I did so.

I went back and picked up the phone about 30 minutes later, then went to the shops. Half an hour later I got home and noticed that the charge level was a couple of percent lower than when I had started charging it. Strange!

I did the same thing again, but this time I checked the charge when I took it off the charger. 1 percent lower!

It took me another attempt to notice that although the phone was chiming to indicate a connection to the charger, the charger's charging led was not coming on.

I was thinking that the charger must be broken, but then I noticed that the USB plug on the lead to the charger was about 1 mm short of being fully inserted.

I pushed the plug fully in and tried again. The charger started working!

Either one or more pins in the plug were not making contact at all, or they were making a poor contact which didn't allow enough current in to charge the phone.

So now I will able to stop mid-ride and see if anything has been added to the internet since I set off!

 

[avecReynolds531]

1. Trued a wheel as it was very slightly out - via the simple/ lazy option of turning the bike upside down & using brake blocks as the guide. This would lead to a lucky break...

2. Picked out shards, debris, etc from tyres.

3. A B17 moved forward & seatpin reset to the previous height.

4. There had been a mystery intermittent, quiet buzzing/ rattle from the rear mudguard - not something I could work out, but not a hassle at all. While checking how true the wheel was after the spoke key, random gear changes from 5th to 4th to 3rd (no idea why I did that) would show what it was...

The cable run of the derailleur is a diagonal path (left/back to front/right) through the parallelogram cage. In the 4th & 5th sprockets, the cable was in contact with the mudguard spar, causing the noise. By the 3rd gear, it had been pulled clear - no more rattle.
(I'd forgotten about the cable tie that had been placed last year to try to keep the cable run straighter from the chainstay - no matter.)

It wasn't a trouble to set the spar away & re-centre the mudguard - all good.

 

[HLaB]

Does it count as a fettle where today was my roughly fortnightly deeper clean of the chain (in between its just a wipe) but every so often I use muc off chain cleaner (other brands are likely available) before a wipe (back spinning through a babywipe, well he is my baby, and then backspinning through a dry cloth)

The chain is now 2,600miles old.