Author Topic: What have you fettled today? (Read 2204356 times)

microphonie · « **Reply #2950 on:** 30 January, 2011, 10:47:58 am »

Drive train on commuter hybrid is knackered & I haz no mech-fu so transfered dynohub wheel, light mounts & pannier mount (eventually) across to the Club Tour. Had to replace one badly frayed rear tyre on the CT and after lots of swearing it all works fine, except:

Marathon Plus 1 vs. Crank Bros Speedlever 0

Have to say I saw that coming as the Speedlever is rather fragile. Might have to invest in a Var lever or these Park Tools heavy duty monsters

Feline · « **Reply #2951 on:** 30 January, 2011, 11:45:33 am »

Quote from: microphonie on 30 January, 2011, 10:47:58 am

Drive train on commuter hybrid is knackered & I haz no mech-fu so transfered dynohub wheel, light mounts & pannier mount (eventually) across to the Club Tour. Had to replace one badly frayed rear tyre on the CT and after lots of swearing it all works fine, except:

Marathon Plus 1 vs. Crank Bros Speedlever 0

Have to say I saw that coming as the Speedlever is rather fragile. Might have to invest in a Var lever or these Park Tools heavy duty monsters

I always think these Brooks ones look rather fetching Evans Cycles | Brooks Wheel Kit | Online Bike Shop

microphonie · « **Reply #2952 on:** 30 January, 2011, 12:23:15 pm »

Quote from: Feline on 30 January, 2011, 11:45:33 am

Quote from: microphonie on 30 January, 2011, 10:47:58 am
Drive train on commuter hybrid is knackered & I haz no mech-fu so transfered dynohub wheel, light mounts & pannier mount (eventually) across to the Club Tour. Had to replace one badly frayed rear tyre on the CT and after lots of swearing it all works fine, except:

Marathon Plus 1 vs. Crank Bros Speedlever 0

Have to say I saw that coming as the Speedlever is rather fragile. Might have to invest in a Var lever or these Park Tools heavy duty monsters

I always think these Brooks ones look rather fetching Evans Cycles | Brooks Wheel Kit | Online Bike Shop

Nice. Have also been getting alternatives from this thread .

Deano · « **Reply #2953 on:** 30 January, 2011, 06:09:16 pm »

A new chain on my commuter, after two years of near-daily use. It was also the second bike on which I've used that chain. Too soon?

(I only replaced it cos that was easier than cleaning it)

TimO · « **Reply #2954 on:** 30 January, 2011, 06:58:32 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 30 January, 2011, 02:06:52 am

Quote from: Kim on 29 January, 2011, 07:19:52 pm
Need to throw some code together to do something useful...

W00t!
kim@willow:~/documents/programming/1wire$ time java OneWireBus
Found temperature sensor at: /10.CFB613020800
...
IO latches at /1F.E46808000000/main/29.36AA09000000 are: 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
Counters at /1F.E46808000000/main/1D.2F510F000000 are:     68092061,    67716534

real   0m9.458s
user   0m0.160s
sys   0m0.065s
*comments code and drags self to bed*

Oooh, very neat.

But why go to bed, it was only 2am, that's not really late when geekage is being undertaken.

redshift · « **Reply #2955 on:** 30 January, 2011, 07:05:55 pm »

Round to Mum & Dad's for the grand de-jungling of the shed. Find that shed is goosed, and mostly being held upright by the contents. Two trips to the tip and the first wave of junk is gone...

vorsprung · « **Reply #2956 on:** 30 January, 2011, 07:17:13 pm »

After yesterdays audax I fixed the rear light on the carbon bike so it doesn't slip down the seat stay, added a route sheet holder and fitted spoke reflectors on the wheels

I know I am supposed to fit the route sheet holder before the audax but hey, I was busy. It's (more) ready now for the next one

jogler · « **Reply #2957 on:** 30 January, 2011, 07:44:02 pm »

I gave the chain on the Langster a scrape with a wire brush & a wipe with an oily rag

Kim · « **Reply #2958 on:** 30 January, 2011, 07:54:33 pm »

Quote from: TimO on 30 January, 2011, 06:58:32 pm

Oooh, very neat.

owfs is doing all the hard work driving the 1-wire interface, my code's speaking to owserver on its TCP port. Which is a good painless approach for doing anything IOish in Java.

I especially like the way owserver will cache values where appropriate - run that test again within a minute or so and it'll only take about 200ms (the temperature sensors take the best part of a second to sample when polled for the first time). Means you can have multiple processes reading sensors for their own reasons and it won't overwhelm the bus with duplicate readings.

Quote

But why go to bed, it was only 2am, that's not really late when geekage is being undertaken.

Had to get up in the morning. Or an approximation thereof

clarion · « **Reply #2959 on:** 30 January, 2011, 11:01:29 pm »

I got some Marathon Plus back onto my tourer.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2960 on:** 30 January, 2011, 11:03:08 pm »

A lavatory. New flushing mechanism.

Bledlow · « **Reply #2961 on:** 30 January, 2011, 11:09:41 pm »

The rear light that came fitted to my Brompton.

It's borked.

Last time it stopped working, a little tweaking of contacts & removal of a touch of corrosion fixed it. Not now. Contacts are shot, & the body seems about to fall apart.

Hey-ho. I've had my moneys worth from it, & a new one won't break the bank.

RW · « **Reply #2962 on:** 30 January, 2011, 11:16:51 pm »

It's been a week of fettling on Polly's bike. I've almost finished fitting 150mm cranks and very shiny TA chain rings. Someone very strong put it together. Last week I bent two hex keys taking the drive side crank off. The hefty socket set hex key rounded the bolt. Midweek two hours of drilling and hammering did the trick. Today I put it back together - more or less. I gave the chain, cassette and jockey wheels a soak in white spirits and they're now as shiny as the new rings.

GruB · « **Reply #2963 on:** 31 January, 2011, 07:18:10 am »

Recharged lights yesterday for the commute week ahead.
Looked at the grime on the bike and thought about washing it.
Thought was as far as I got.

corshamjim · « **Reply #2964 on:** 31 January, 2011, 07:55:02 am »

(yesterday) was supposed to be installing printer driver on friend's PC but spent all day updating to Vista SP1 and dozens of updates which the user had been ignoring since the day they bought it. Removed a trojan. Left friend with instructions on how to install drivers and a warning to keep up to date with updates.

I'm so glad I don't do this sort of stuff for a living any more.

clarion · « **Reply #2965 on:** 31 January, 2011, 10:53:58 pm »

Replaced a snapped gear cable. Tutted at the state of the sections of outer

I also rewrapped the bar tape for one side of my bars. The downside of bar end levers

barakta · « **Reply #2966 on:** 01 February, 2011, 06:11:48 pm »

Kim is fettling her shoes and it looks like a year 7 technology project. I am evidently feeling less ill as I find this greatly amusing and am considering photos to share with you all

Gattopardo · « **Reply #2967 on:** 02 February, 2011, 12:14:31 am »

Finally assembled the single speed and found that the wheels were a little out of true, noted whe purchased but didn't think about it. Went to true them today and noted that there were two spokes on the rear (a low number of spooked rear) that were loose so tried tightening and found that they were too long. Not by a little bit but by a over 12 mm. so off to get the two spokes and tighten up the front now both wheels true. Now to collect a set of dia compe cherry brakes and all will be sorted. The bike will be on the road in its new life guise. Suspect the frame is a little too big for me. I hope not as it looks really nice.

Finally finished assembling the road bike but not road tested

The hybrid crank is buggered, not the bottom bracket the actual crank has play in it. So off to find another hopefully cheap.

Feline · « **Reply #2968 on:** 02 February, 2011, 12:18:51 am »

Quote from: barakta on 01 February, 2011, 06:11:48 pm

Kim is fettling her shoes and it looks like a year 7 technology project. I am evidently feeling less ill as I find this greatly amusing and am considering photos to share with you all

We definitely need the pics

Kim · « **Reply #2969 on:** 02 February, 2011, 12:24:15 am »

Quote from: Feline on 02 February, 2011, 12:18:51 am

We definitely need the pics

Too late. I banned her from taking photos because I felt they would reveal my embarrassing lack of mechanical-fu (or because I was filing white plastic and it looked like I had the worst case of dandruff in recorded history).

I've cleaned up now.

barakta · « **Reply #2970 on:** 02 February, 2011, 12:50:10 am »

Quote from: Feline on 02 February, 2011, 12:18:51 am

Quote from: barakta on 01 February, 2011, 06:11:48 pm
Kim is fettling her shoes and it looks like a year 7 technology project. I am evidently feeling less ill as I find this greatly amusing and am considering photos to share with you all

We definitely need the pics

Kim was mean and wouldn't consent to photos, not even just ones of her hands+fettlage. Spoilsport!

Feline · « **Reply #2971 on:** 02 February, 2011, 12:58:00 am »

Quote from: barakta on 02 February, 2011, 12:50:10 am

Quote from: Feline on 02 February, 2011, 12:18:51 am
Quote from: barakta on 01 February, 2011, 06:11:48 pm
Kim is fettling her shoes and it looks like a year 7 technology project. I am evidently feeling less ill as I find this greatly amusing and am considering photos to share with you all

We definitely need the pics

Kim was mean and wouldn't consent to photos, not even just ones of her hands+fettlage. Spoilsport!

Oh that's sad

Of course fettlage pics are really an excuse for forumites to check out your interior decor and kitchen appliances I have heard

Kim · « **Reply #2972 on:** 02 February, 2011, 12:59:34 am »

Oh, that's easy: Our decor is all landlord-issue magnolia, and I'm sure at least some of our kitchen appliances have already appeared on here.

Gattopardo · « **Reply #2973 on:** 02 February, 2011, 01:14:16 am »

Quote from: Feline on 02 February, 2011, 12:18:51 am

Quote from: barakta on 01 February, 2011, 06:11:48 pm
Kim is fettling her shoes and it looks like a year 7 technology project. I am evidently feeling less ill as I find this greatly amusing and am considering photos to share with you all

We definitely need the pics

Foot fetishist.

Also trued/retensioned the twisted wheels i built on the fixie as it was getting a bit noisy. I thought it might as the twisted spokes settles down. They don't tell you that in any of the how too guides.

MattH · « **Reply #2974 on:** 02 February, 2011, 08:20:30 am »

I built my first wheel from scratch last night

Nothing fancy - a cheap on-one 135mm fixed-fixed hub (reduced to a tenner in their sale!), DT-Swiss DB spokes onto a used but hardly worn Alex ACE-19 rim from my pile of "that'll come in useful one day" bits.

Quote from: Lynx on 02 February, 2011, 01:14:16 am

Also trued/retensioned the twisted wheels i built on the fixie as it was getting a bit noisy. I thought it might as the twisted spokes settles down. They don't tell you that in any of the how too guides.

I bult using the Roger Musdson e-book. It tells you how to check for this as the wheel tightens ("flags" of tape on the spokes), and that one of the stress relieving methods (pushing the rim) can sort it out.

We'll see how well I did on the build once I've put it on a bike and ridden it for a bit - which involves stripping all the gear stuff off first.

Author Topic: What have you fettled today? (Read 2204356 times)

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