My project for the next 2 weeks
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@jolly said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
Acetone and transmission fluid make pretty good panther piss for rusted or stuck nuts and bolts. Some guys use 1/3 acetone to ATF, some guys go 50/50, some guys don't use but 10% acetone.
What's the viscosity like? This stuff's gotta penetrate about an inch or so of very tight threads.
@aqua-letifer said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
@jolly said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
Acetone and transmission fluid make pretty good panther piss for rusted or stuck nuts and bolts. Some guys use 1/3 acetone to ATF, some guys go 50/50, some guys don't use but 10% acetone.
What's the viscosity like? This stuff's gotta penetrate about an inch or so of very tight threads.
Pretty thin.
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@Klaus it's getting worse, man.
Amazon gave up on delivering me some brake cables. Gave up! I've never heard of that before. Just no inventory.
I called around at 5 different shops in my area, big and small, and they don't have them, either.
Shop #6 purports to have them in stock. I'm skeptical, because online inventories aren't always accurate. But they cost freaking $60. Last year, they would have cost $30.
Freaking ridiculous.
Please love yourself.
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@Klaus it's getting worse, man.
Amazon gave up on delivering me some brake cables. Gave up! I've never heard of that before. Just no inventory.
I called around at 5 different shops in my area, big and small, and they don't have them, either.
Shop #6 purports to have them in stock. I'm skeptical, because online inventories aren't always accurate. But they cost freaking $60. Last year, they would have cost $30.
Freaking ridiculous.
@aqua-letifer said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
@Klaus it's getting worse, man.
I know. I'm considering to buy another bike, but right now seems to be the worst time ever to do that.
This week I had to buy an overpriced used cassette because the one I wanted wasn't available in any shop.
It's starting to feel like East Germany: Rather than buying what you need, you buy what's available, just to have it when you need it.
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Done.
My back is killing me but I'm done.
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Yep, flip hub on a freewheel.
No quill stem, though, I'm not that old school.But speaking of, this bike has no Dura-Ace (except for the cables)/carbon/anything roadies would find cool. And with 2 brake calipers, a coaster cog, and a substantial positive rise stem, neither does it have anything fixie foos would geek out over. It's a bike that will be considered cool by precisely nobody. But I don't give a shit, the chainline is perfect, the bottom bracket and axles are perfectly packed and the brake pads have about half a credit card's gap from the rims, which I trued.
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What’s that on top of the valves? Dice?
Looks pretty nice. Why would anyone consider Dura Ace particularly cool?
@klaus said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
What’s that on top of the valves? Dice?
Yep.
But they serve a function. Unscrewing them in the dark in a rainstorm, for example, they aren't going to roll away or get lost in the grass.Looks pretty nice. Why would anyone consider Dura Ace particularly cool?
Dura Ace is all that is cool to a lot of roadies. Which is whatever, but that's what they say. "Why didn't you go with Dura Ace on your ________?" Stupid.
Please love yourself.
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@klaus said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
What’s that on top of the valves? Dice?
Yep.
But they serve a function. Unscrewing them in the dark in a rainstorm, for example, they aren't going to roll away or get lost in the grass.Looks pretty nice. Why would anyone consider Dura Ace particularly cool?
Dura Ace is all that is cool to a lot of roadies. Which is whatever, but that's what they say. "Why didn't you go with Dura Ace on your ________?" Stupid.
@aqua-letifer said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
Dura Ace is all that is cool to a lot of roadies. Which is whatever, but that's what they say. "Why didn't you go with Dura Ace on your ________?" Stupid.
Stupid, indeed. But I for one haven't met a roadie like that yet. Dura Ace buys you less weight, but for a lot of money. Quality-wise it isn't better than 105 or Ultegra.
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@klaus said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
What’s that on top of the valves? Dice?
Yep.
But they serve a function. Unscrewing them in the dark in a rainstorm, for example, they aren't going to roll away or get lost in the grass.Looks pretty nice. Why would anyone consider Dura Ace particularly cool?
Dura Ace is all that is cool to a lot of roadies. Which is whatever, but that's what they say. "Why didn't you go with Dura Ace on your ________?" Stupid.
@aqua-letifer said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
Unscrewing them in the dark in a rainstorm
I must admit that I leave off the caps. Too much work to keep track of them.
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@aqua-letifer said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
Unscrewing them in the dark in a rainstorm
I must admit that I leave off the caps. Too much work to keep track of them.
@klaus said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
@aqua-letifer said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
Unscrewing them in the dark in a rainstorm
I must admit that I leave off the caps. Too much work to keep track of them.
I keep the valve converter caps on only because I might find myself in need of gas station air, which only has shrader valves.
Please love yourself.
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Took it out this morning on a 12-mile tooling around. Everything's working fine. Brakes now have a ton more stopping power. It's weird, though. The new coaster cog is LOUD when coasting. When I pedal, though, no noise whatsoever.
Fixie lockring is bent somehow. Gotta get a new one but not in a rush, still works fine.
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@klaus said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
@aqua-letifer said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
Unscrewing them in the dark in a rainstorm
I must admit that I leave off the caps. Too much work to keep track of them.
I keep the valve converter caps on only because I might find myself in need of gas station air, which only has shrader valves.
@aqua-letifer said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
valve converter caps
I didn't even know those exist.
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@aqua-letifer said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
valve converter caps
I didn't even know those exist.
@klaus said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
@aqua-letifer said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
valve converter caps
I didn't even know those exist.
Really? Here, they're in jars beside every bike shop's till, they're ubiquitous.
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Well, I do know that valve converters exist, but I've never seen them in the form of a cap.
Also, I'm not sure about the situation when such a converter would be useful on the road. The compressed air at gas stations usually has a too low pressure for road bike tires. I also always carry a minipump (that said, it's a PITA to get a tire up to 8 bar or so with a mini pump).
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Very cool @Aqua-Letifer ! I wish I understood 99% of what you did but I am glad you finished!
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Very cool @Aqua-Letifer ! I wish I understood 99% of what you did but I am glad you finished!
@89th said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
Very cool @Aqua-Letifer ! I wish I understood 99% of what you did but I am glad you finished!
Meh, took things off, put newer things on.
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Well, I do know that valve converters exist, but I've never seen them in the form of a cap.
Also, I'm not sure about the situation when such a converter would be useful on the road. The compressed air at gas stations usually has a too low pressure for road bike tires. I also always carry a minipump (that said, it's a PITA to get a tire up to 8 bar or so with a mini pump).
@klaus said in My project for the next 2 weeks:
Well, I do know that valve converters exist, but I've never seen them in the form of a cap.
Also, I'm not sure about the situation when such a converter would be useful on the road. The compressed air at gas stations usually has a too low pressure for road bike tires.
That's true of modern gas stations here I think, too, but at older ones, they don't throttle your pressure. And I've been stranded while way out there before, it sucks.
I use CO2 because I'm edgy like that. I've gotten good at not freezing my hand off!
