I can't say I'm inpressed with the Hope Brake hose guide. They're alloy and to put it simply, soft as shit...
Iwas tightening the dummy bolt and it sheared off as I was tightening it with a hex screw driver i.e. VERY low tork.
The plastic around the bolt was to try and protect the frame to use vice grips to loosen what remained... Unfortunately I couldn't get a decent grip and the remaining part got rounded off.
The only solution was to drill it out. So using increasingly larger drill bits I tried to remove as much as possible without damaging the threads.
At this point the both was weak enough to remove with pliers, and to be sure the threads were clean I retapped them.
Crisis over...
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Monday, July 28, 2008
Good news... bad news
Well some of the parts have started to arrive, such as the new disk brakes. I made two separate orders from Chain Reaction Cycles in the UK, one for the brakes, the other for the wheels.
For some reason the brakes arrived and the wheels are floating around in some courier warehouse, apparently with insufficent/incomplete address.
Bugger...
For some reason the brakes arrived and the wheels are floating around in some courier warehouse, apparently with insufficent/incomplete address.
Bugger...
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