- Location
- Inside my skull
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What Have You Fettled Today?
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roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
swapped the top cap for a top cap/ garmin mount on my Dawes discovery hybrid.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Oiled chain yesterday. It’s a recumbent one so oiling takes a bit longer. What a difference it makes after you’ve let a chain run dry.
Nigelnightmare
Über Member
If youchanged it again next month it would look the same.
It's carbon from the partially burned diesel fuel.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
When I worked at the garage we used to like reading the usually long German names for bits on the Ford boxes.
We would then use them in our version of Germanglish.
For example: "I'm going to order some ausbesserungsfarbe for that blue Fiesta."
(Touch up paint).
keithmac
Guru
Genuinely interested in why it's partially burnt?, the lift pump in the tank feed the filter housing that then supplies the high pressure pump.
Is it the return from the spill pipes back to the tank that cause that?.
All the diesel I've had out of it while priming looked clear/ golden colour?.
Shearwater Missile
Veteran
After yesterdays poor rear gear shifting I thought I`d better investigate. Low and behold it was the inner cable and a double whammy at that. It was frayed at both ends, inside the shifter and also inside the loop of the outer before the clamp. New cable fitted and the end soldered to prevent fraying and it makes life easier should I have to detach again. Re-indexed the gears and they feel like new. This is a Sora 3300 shifter and a 3500 rear derailleur. Just want to take it out on the road.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
I'm probably the last person here to come across that dodge, I'll still steal it though, thanks.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Cleaned mud out from mudguard
Shearwater Missile
Veteran
You may not be the last person. I have never read it anywhere but just thought it a good idea. The trick is to do it when the cable is new as when it gets old it will tarnish and oxidize.
Nigelnightmare
Über Member
Sorry My bad!
Didn't look properly and assumed it was the oil filter from the state of it.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Applied a waterproof top coat to a leaking felt flat roof yesterday. That was 3.5 hours work. No rain forecast for next 5 days so hopefully enough time for it to fully cure before it gets wet. House stunk of white spirit last night but much better today.
keithmac
Guru
Yeh no chance of clean oil or filter, just idleing before checking the level is enough to colour it up!.
Genuine question, I'd assumed the cable would be stainless steel?
Can you solder it, or do you just just blob the end so the solder is really just sticking to itself around the strands?
