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Re: 1995 Claud Butler Titanius White Industries BUILD starts pg6
The other day Mrs Peachy decided to pop up into the loft “just to check” :shock:
Upon her return from this little expedition…. :| She said ‘I understand the rows of pretty wheels and boxed parts all clearly labelled, these are your comfort blankets, I think you call them The Queue, this I understand and am ok with… If you get run over by a bus I can research these and work out what to flog them for…
But the other end of the loft has a big box of dirty black parts and a pile of nasty stuff on top.. why can’t this lot be dumped?
Ah ha my love! This is a different pile, this is “The Stash” I then went on to explain that this is an important resource of spare parts and doings, for me and for Karma for other noble fellows gallantly keeping old chunks of steel on the road/dirt
‘you mean you can only give that s**t away?’ was her parting comment…
Anyway, back to the build… so, whilst spending a pleasant evening calmly lacing up the Weinmanns, I mused upon the three round scuff marks on the flange of the free hub body… I concluded these must be from the three bolts or rivets that held whatever cassette was once on there..but for why? Maybe someone had attempted to fit a 9 speed on this 8 speed hub and removed the little spacing ring.. now without it, I wasn’t sure if my M900 spider would fit without clashing with the spokes. A dry run (admittedly without the spokes being tensioned) proved I had a problem… :?
So where do you go to get a spacer ring at 9pm? The dirty box of course..
Not sure what material this is, so a layer of copper grease was carefully applied.
C’est Voila!
The other day Mrs Peachy decided to pop up into the loft “just to check” :shock:
Upon her return from this little expedition…. :| She said ‘I understand the rows of pretty wheels and boxed parts all clearly labelled, these are your comfort blankets, I think you call them The Queue, this I understand and am ok with… If you get run over by a bus I can research these and work out what to flog them for…
But the other end of the loft has a big box of dirty black parts and a pile of nasty stuff on top.. why can’t this lot be dumped?
Ah ha my love! This is a different pile, this is “The Stash” I then went on to explain that this is an important resource of spare parts and doings, for me and for Karma for other noble fellows gallantly keeping old chunks of steel on the road/dirt
‘you mean you can only give that s**t away?’ was her parting comment…
Anyway, back to the build… so, whilst spending a pleasant evening calmly lacing up the Weinmanns, I mused upon the three round scuff marks on the flange of the free hub body… I concluded these must be from the three bolts or rivets that held whatever cassette was once on there..but for why? Maybe someone had attempted to fit a 9 speed on this 8 speed hub and removed the little spacing ring.. now without it, I wasn’t sure if my M900 spider would fit without clashing with the spokes. A dry run (admittedly without the spokes being tensioned) proved I had a problem… :?
So where do you go to get a spacer ring at 9pm? The dirty box of course..
Not sure what material this is, so a layer of copper grease was carefully applied.
C’est Voila!
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