Re: [CR]this could only happen to me..right? (was re: the virtues of grinding compound)

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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:39:48 -0400
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]this could only happen to me..right? (was re: the virtues of grinding compound)
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Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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My best one of these was buying a nice Regina chain with the hollow bushings at a swap meet, then discovering it had no section of the nurmal connecting links. Not much can be done about that!

Joe Bender-Zanoni Great Notch, NJ

C. Andrews wrote:
>Harvey's post about his "what the hell threading is that
>anyway" inch-pitch cog, reminded me yet again of how it
>seems like every time I go to assemble another bike in the
>waiting queue of interesting projects, I run up against some
>obstacle that just seems designed to thwart me... as if I'm
>the only person this would ever happen to. Surely no-one
>else would ever have encountered some of the stuff I have
>over years of trying to assemble period-correct bikes.
>
>The latest: an interesting Masi Special I'm assembling for
>the Velo needed some wheels. I had bought some just for
>this project some months ago on ebay. High-flange Record,
>Fiamme red rims with the labels still showing, with nice
>period stainless Stella spokes (the ones with the cool stars
>stamped in the ends, anyway. Stellas, right?). I had just
>stuck them on a bike for storage, and never really examined
>them closely (this is a congenital defect of mine: I tend
>to discover interesting anomalies in my purchases long after
>I buy them..).
>
>The rear had a late Shimano freewheel. Which I removed. Lo
>and behold, whadaya know? No bearing dust-cover. The poor
>little balls just left out there to fend for themselves.
>Someone had thoughtfully re-built the hub with new Bullseye
>grease..as if that would take care of matters. I could not
>believe it. That was a first. Naturally, the seller did
>not inform me of that little detail.
>
>Then I started looking at the spokes. And, whadaya know?
>FIVE of them are replacements. And not just any
>replacements. But thick straight-guage galvanized, with
>mile-long spoke nipples .. The original spokes were elegant
>stainless with small brass nipples. Naturally...the seller
>did not mention this either.
>
>Lucky for me, I have another wheel with these same spokes,
>same hub, with a ruined rim, so I took care of the spoke
>problem..and I cannibalized a dust-cover from a donor hub
>I've been slowly denuding of its parts for awhile now..
>
>Moral of the story? Not much of one, beyond the
>entertainment value of no-dust-cover-under-that-freewheel...
>except that it pays to ask ahead of time, rather than three
>months after purchase..<g>
>
>Charles Andrews
>SoCal
>
>Carmen and I will be up at Jay Sexton's ride in Sebastopol
>next Saturday... we're looking forward to it..I hope folks
>we know from the Bay area will be there. Be nice to see you
>again.. And meet some people we've never met!
>
>"What concerns me is not the way things are,
> but rather the way people think things are."

>

>- Epictitus