I wanted to give the Carrera a ride out yesterday. I’ve been riding me Cadex everyday for 5 weeks and I fancied a change. So on Friday night I aired the tyres up and checked it over. I then remembered that the last time I ride it the rear derailleur was playing up quite a bit. I had a go at adjusting it from scratch, no luck. The cable adjuster didn’t feel right but It was late so I gave up and ended up going out on the Cadex yesterday.
I had a closer look at what was going on with the cable adjuster today. It had snapped off flush with the body of the derailleur, oh dear. So I set about extracting the threaded section remaining in the body. My tool selection for such a job is very limited and I knew I didn’t want to drill it out. So I freed the cable, pulled it out and had a think. Armed with an old Stanley blade, screw driver and screw and a squirt of plus gas I set my plan into action
I popped out the little collar from the crank side of the body, carefully screwed in the screw until it started to bite. Then sat the Stanley blade into the snapped threaded section on the adjuster side of the body. With a little pressure and rotation on the Stanley blade whist turning the screw, I got a slight turn on it. This was repeated several times until there was enough threads showing to get some pliers on it to finish the job. Result! Sometimes it’s the little victories right.
I knew I had a salvaged 105 rear derailleur which I thought would have the same or very similar cable adjuster on it. A little rummage and my donor was found, a quick clean of the cable adjuster and it was in place on the Carrera’s RX100 derailleur. The gears have now been tuned to the best of my ability and are running so much sweeter. I think they could be dialed in a bit more in someone else’s hands.
I’ll be out on the Carrera soon.
