Snapped spindle

[roubaixtuesday]

Just when you thought a thread couldn't get any worse...

C'mon, this thread is pitch perfect...

 

[Paulus]

C'mon, this thread is pitch perfect...

🤦

 

[silva]

Again Copy Cat has to say "Meow":

In english please ?

Why do you not service a bike yourself instead of flipping sprockets and running it into the ground for the sake of a few pounds/euros.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copycat

https://www.velosolo.co.uk/shopdisc.html

*Guarantee applies to the original owner only, cog must be run in both directions evenly and flipped frequently, postage costs not included, claims must be accompanied by the *original* paper proof of purchase, commercial use excluded, please contact us prior to return.

I Followed the Logical Advice.
To Save Bucks.
And on top of that Flipping First period, after the teeth got worn towards the longest roller distance in the chains lifecycle, no further wear, if teeth tips broke off, rollers disengage as easily as engage, as PROVED.
Yes, PROVED, since the cog that is now mounted now runs over half a year with all teeth tips broken off, just shallow valleys between low mountains.
Being the result of testing things out.
I didn't do that before, this first used cog (bike was delivered with it) I had replaced because the teeth were thin I assumed a break would be a problem / drivetrain at best just handling a slow ride home.
After my experience with the chainring, where broken teeth had proven as no problem, I thought let's test the cog too, and indeed, also no problem.

Understand what this means? No Further Flipping needed.
All I have to do, is replace the chain when its tensioning mechanism reached its end position, just like happened with the chainring that was mounted start 2019, 7 years ago.
The only work is the chain replacement.
And also, the only cost.

Note that I here said nothing that I didn't say before.
You name it "running it into the ground", but my bicycle, with those worn-beyond sprockets, still runs OVER it, at the work of replacing a chain, and a cost of a chain.

It's often said "replace chain before it starts to eat sprockets".
Well, I let it eat them, and the eating ceased without sprockets replacements.
To note here, again, is my singlespeed case. For derailers, I don't know and don't bother either since I'm riding singlespeed since about 2 decades.

 

[silva]

This is where the hammer and chisel come in again.

I started to use hammer and chisel to make my motorcycle chains on length.
See, it does the job TOO, without special tools with a Price Tag that break (pens).
Just like the dealer that replaced my HollowTech2 after its bearings failed.
He knocked out the driveside part.
Hammers and chisels can be used for ALOT and are cheap.
Early 2021 a storm pulled down a big tree here. I asked a guy to cut it in parts I could handle. But for the bigger diameter his chainsaw was too short. I used a hammer and chisels to split what he couldn't reach with his saw.
Of course, Not Good for Bicycle Industry, I know.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Early 2021 a storm pulled down a big tree here. I asked a guy to cut it in parts I could handle. But for the bigger diameter his chainsaw was too short. I used a hammer and chisels to split what he couldn't reach with his saw.

Other than tree surgery, have you used a hammer and chisel for any other types of surgery?

 

[Dogtrousers]

I used to use a hammer and nail punch for cutting and rejoining bike chains.

Get me with my fancy specialist nail punch.

 

[silva]

A simple answer of; you do not have any experience fitting or removing bottom brackets would have sufficed. No need for rambling word soup.

Copy Cat again:
Fred Flintstone: Wilma cooked for me
Fred Flintstone: restaurant Dino cooked for me
Fred Flintstone: Betty Rubble cooked for me.
Ajax Bay: "I am pretty convinced" that Fred Flintstone has never actually cooked.

Next addition thus is:
Ming the Merciless: Fred Flintstone does not have any experience in cooking.

Why do you ask questions that don't need to be asked since the answer passed enough times to make even

with her glasses on the end of her nose aware of it.

 

[silva]

Other than tree surgery, have you used a hammer and chisel for any other types of surgery?

That wasn't "surgery", that was "getting the job done".
"Surgery" is more for people that use the Hollow Technology of the Light Religion in order to keep up with the rest by cheating. See those delaminating Hollow Cranks, where Experts of Institutes are performing surgical investigations into The Why, while the Obvious answer is just like in any Church: an excuse for a bill.

 

[silva]

I used to use a hammer and nail punch for cutting and rejoining bike chains.

Get me with my fancy specialist nail punch.

As said, I use cilinders of a cilinder bearing that I many years ago recovered from waste.
I first knock with a chisel the riveted end equal to the plate surface = the hard part paased, then such a cilinder on it, hammer it deeper, until I can detach the ends.

And also said, when I have enough remainders of chains to make a chain on length, I hammer these all back together, the chisel serving as buffer as to not dent pen ends.

It's not... rocket science, you know...

 

[roubaixtuesday]

an excuse for a bill.

Thanks! I never miss an excuse for a bill, so here's one a bit more out of the ordinary than you bog standard mallard:

 

[Dogtrousers]

Joining chains using hammer and punch resulted in one of my most memorable (in a good way) days out on the bike.

I was in deepest Pembrokeshire somewhere. As I'm a ham-fisted bodger my chain, which was joined by that method, broke. I went to a farm to see if I could borrow some tools, and the farmer gave me a lift to the nearest town, as he was just setting off.

The memorable bit was sitting with my bike on a flat trailer towed by a tractor through the beautiful Pembrokeshire countryside, drinking from an enormous mug of tea. Wonderful

Following that incident (1980 maybe) I discovered split links and chain tools.

 

[fossyant]

Are you on drugs Silva. Genuine question.

 

[fossyant]

I've broke my nail. Any hammer and chisel recommendations ?

 

[EckyH]

All I have to do, is replace the chain when its tensioning mechanism reached its end position, just like happened with the chainring that was mounted start 2019, 7 years ago.

Nah, too expensive.
Why not take out just one chain link? The chain should be elongated enough that the tensioning mechanism can be adjusted to the "start position". Additionally that would save a few grams for no cost at all!

E.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I have found a photo of Silva on his bike. Bet the wheels were made using hammer and chisel.