Search results

Reljah would be thrilled to hear that. As a pro, he believes he would be in legal jeopardy without his currently certified torque wrenches. As a pro, he claims that no DIYer needs a torque wrench for a metal bike because it doesn't require superhuman precision. Why don't you phone him and tell...

My digital is limited to 6 Nm. It will be useful on handlebars to get 2 or 4 screws the same. I like to do bigger stuff by feel. Years ago I bought a 24" breaker bar for lug nuts on cars and trucks. A smooth-handled bar that long made it a pleasure to feel the change in torque versus rotation...

Yours resembles mine. I don't know the source of the friction that keeps mine from working loose. It doesn't look like the head, so it must be the threads.

Just break another link.

I don't know much about through axles, but I grease mine to prevent corrosion and be sure I can remove and replace it smoothly.

All these photos have me all mixed up. I was looking at the one that says "Completed January 12, 2023." I thought "completed" meant "purchased." At 5 for $3.35 I wouldn't expect precision no matter what initials were stamped on them. It reminds me of replacing the OE tires on my Abound. The...

You bought 5 pair of Chinese pliers for C$3.35? I spent $7.99 for a pair of Oumers, and they're plenty strong. I bought two KMC Missing Links on a bubble card that says they're from KMC Headquarters in Taiwan. Does Beis Hypoutdoor sell Taiwan stuff? Maybe the KMC on yours stands for the Kung...

The trap might look oily, but it doesn't get dirty. It's a dry lube from Canada. I started using it because I didn't like getting oily grime on my hands and trouser cuffs.

Recently I thought noise was coming from my left pedal. It was a loose left BB shell. I thought the right-hand thread and the 35 Nm of torque were to prevent that. I reassembled it with Screw Glue. Yesterday I noticed that Park Tools recommends Threadlocker on BBs.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00022VY74/ Three years ago I bought this on an e-biker's recommendation. Not long afterward, I replaced my mailbox. The nuts and bolts holding it on had been rusting 30 years. It looked like a job for an angle grinder or hacksaw blade, but they would have...

Give a rat a furry tale and people think he's adorable. I shot and ate one in high school, but the amount of meat was disappointing. Similar experiences helped me in Biology. I'd finish a dissection in 5 minutes. A neighbor in his 90s used to keep our squirrels under control. When there were too...

Gray squirrels, AKA tree rats. It's 4 feet off the ground on a 2x4 leaning against my wall, 30 degrees from vertical. It seems like squirrels are the only animals around her that will go up a board like that. They look for a way in, where they can breed, cause terrible destruction, and bring...

Wrong lube. I use my chain lube on a steel trap that's in the weather year round. Rust used to bind it up. Now it doesn't rust or bind, month after month. Five years ago I bought a jacket with a big brass zipper that would jam. Graphite fluid for locks worked but didn't last. My chain lube...

I started getting an intermittent rubbing sound. Applying the front brake would stop it for a while. It got worse as if debris were caught in the caliper. I removed the wheel and cleaned the rotor and the slot in the caliper with a paper towel. No change. The clearance looked good, but I...

I don't have a tub. I put my old toilet in the living room as a backup. I filled the tank with a bucket so it would be ready to flush. 🥴

I started riding 71 years ago and have had no trouble except with a QR. The axles I remember have used serrated nuts. Tighten the nuts to take up axle elasticity, and the elasticity will keep the serrations pressed into the dropouts. A couple of years ago I bought a new e-bike. A couple of...

I bought the torque screwdriver and I love it. It's 10" long but I think will work on most bicycle screws. It weighs almost as much as a can of beer. It came with certification showing that CW and CCW, it's right on at 1.20 and 6.00 Nm and within 1% at points between. In the future, it should be...

Ever hear of Carl Norgren? Ike invited him to both inaugurations and often visited him in Colorado. Norgren invented the ball chuck in 1926. A Schrader chuck should have a rubber washer soft enough to seal around the rim and then let you push the chuck down to open the valve. In previous chucks...

I guess a 26 x 1-3/8 at 60 PSI wasn't too different from a 27 at 80. In the 1950s and 1960s, chucks went on and off those Schraders without a hiss. Checking and airing car and pickup tires in the following decades, I found chucks getting hissier. It was okay on trucks and cars because the tire...

The motorcycle I bought in 1972 has threaded Schraders, as did the motorcycles I had before. I bought tubes with threaded Schraders for my first e-bike. When there's little or no pressure, the stem will stay put while I jam a chuck on. I'd leave the nut loose so that when I inflated, the stem...