What Have You Fettled Today?

[fossyant]

Degreased the cassette and chain on the FS Pro, and greased the headset cartridge bearings.

Whole lot was filthy again after getting caught in the rain near Lyme Park. Oh well. Lasted less than 24 hours

 

[Salty seadog]

Whole lot was filthy again after getting caught in the rain near Lyme Park. Oh well. Lasted less than 24 hours

At least you'll have something to post in here tomorrow.

 

[fossyant]

At least you'll have something to post in here tomorrow.

Clean again !

 

[JhnBssll]

All my bikes are currently in fine fettle so I resorted to fixing my broken 3D printer this evening. Seems to be up and running nicely again now, I wonder how long it will last this time before a) setting fire to itself, b) crashing its extruder in to the bed after missing an end-stop or c) finding a new and inventive way of damaging itself I can see why it was cheap...

 

[User16625]

Had to install a barrel adjuster on my new Ceepo. It was internal routing so I wasn't looking forward to this task. Anyway I removed the inner cable for the rear mech, simple enough. Cut the outers blah blah blah easy enough. However it was getting the cable out through the final hole which was an utter bastard. Just general potching about and using very small hex wrenches to try and hook and guide the thing out I finally did it. I then went to re-index the system when I noticed I fudged up the routing, bypassing the bottom bracket cable guides completely. shoot! I forgot about them. I would have to start all over again!
Having gone through that process again, this time correctly I then had to figure out why my brifter wasn't working. Did I re-route the cable incorrectly again? Was it a tension problem? No clicking or nothing from the brifter. It took me a while but it was a simple error. I managed to bypass the mechanism in the brifter that does its clicky thing. Having clicked the brifter to its slackest setting (would be the smallest cog on the rear) I repositioned the head of the cable. Test ride and everything seems OK. Thank fudge! Can finally start drinking too many ciders!

Is there an actual easy way to route internal cables? I'd be happy enough to order a proper tool for the job. What an orrible procedure!

 

[Serge]

Had to install a barrel adjuster on my new Ceepo. It was internal routing so I wasn't looking forward to this task. Anyway I removed the inner cable for the rear mech, simple enough. Cut the outers blah blah blah easy enough. However it was getting the cable out through the final hole which was an utter bastard. Just general potching about and using very small hex wrenches to try and hook and guide the thing out I finally did it. I then went to re-index the system when I noticed I fudged up the routing, bypassing the bottom bracket cable guides completely. shoot! I forgot about them. I would have to start all over again!
Having gone through that process again, this time correctly I then had to figure out why my brifter wasn't working. Did I re-route the cable incorrectly again? Was it a tension problem? No clicking or nothing from the brifter. It took me a while but it was a simple error. I managed to bypass the mechanism in the brifter that does its clicky thing. Having clicked the brifter to its slackest setting (would be the smallest cog on the rear) I repositioned the head of the cable. Test ride and everything seems OK. Thank fudge! Can finally start drinking too many ciders!

Is there an actual easy way to route internal cables? I'd be happy enough to order a proper tool for the job. What an orrible procedure!

I'm so, so glad my build doesn't have internal cabling, I think that would tip me over the edge!

 

[Salty seadog]

Is there an actual easy way to route internal cables? I'd be happy enough to order a proper tool for the job. What an orrible procedure!

There are specialist kits for it Park tools do one to suit all sorts of inners, outers etc, and jag wire have a tool too.
My two carbon frames have very tight entrance and exit holes for the cables so will be a bugger to do. Even the LBS have to fiddle for a while.

 

[User16625]

There are specialist kits for it Park tools do one to suit all sorts of inners, outers etc, and jag wire have a tool too.
My two carbon frames have very tight entrance and exit holes for the cables so will be a bugger to do. Even the LBS have to fiddle for a while.

Fortunately in my case, the frame had fairly large holes. A bung is inserted into the exit holes which is where the outer cable goes in, doubling as a ferrule. I don't know if the holes for the other cables are any worse however, I only done the cable for the rear mech.

I'm so, so glad my build doesn't have internal cabling, I think that would tip me over the edge!

I'd have preferred outer routing too, altho my reason for wanting outers was because I had heard that inner routing can cause rattling sounds. My bike is pretty quiet apart from a bit of extra noise on the large chain ring. This was why I added a cable adjuster, so I could try and reduce said noise by adjusting the indexing on the move. Anyway I ended up with this bike because after searching online and in local shops, it was the only bike of it's type that didn't come with dam pressfit bottom bracket. It was actually way under my intended budget too! Just no cable tension adjusters at the front, and none at all for the front mech, but which the shop had fitted one with no issues.

 

[Salty seadog]

Took most of a wobble out of the rear wheel on the Roubaix, done with wheel in situ and a cable tie on the seat stay.

 

[Reynard]

I've done half a fettle.

New left pedal fitted to Wiggy, but the original drive side pedal is stuck. It's currently marinating in some WD40. (Any other ideas on how I can get it unstuck?)

Am replacing the Wellgo flats for single sided spd. Reason - I managed to get some shimano spd shoes very cheaply on clearance, so figured I could give clipless a whirl...

 

[jongooligan]

Very worn chain and 9 speed cassette replaced on my Kinesis Racelight T2 today. Don't know how many miles they've done but they've only been on there about nine years - wonder if I can get a refund.

Previous cassette was a 12 - 32 but I took a risk that the rear derailleur could handle something larger and fitted a 12 - 36 tooth cassette. Just had to adjust the angle of the derailleur and it works a treat. Didn't even need to faff with the indexing. Trying to raise the enthusiasm now to find a steep hill and test it this evening.

 

[Reynard]

The WD40 did its work.

Wiggy now has two shiny new pedals. (The B'twin version of the Shimano single sided.)

Now to put cleats on shoes...

 

[jongooligan]

Is there an actual easy way to route internal cables? I'd be happy enough to order a proper tool for the job. What an orrible procedure!

As someone else once said, "like trying to shove wet spaghetti up a cat's arse".

 

[MontyVeda]

I've fettled the magnets out of a few of these...

...ready for being rebated into the sides of my tool caddy

 

[Reynard]

As someone else once said, "like trying to shove wet spaghetti up a cat's arse".

Wasn't that a description of mid-air refuelling? I'm sure I came across that phrase in the book about Vulcan 607...