RE: [CR]ASC disaster- Shell needed

(Example: Framebuilding)

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From: "neil foddering" <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
To: markstonich@earthlink.net, joebz@optonline.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]ASC disaster- Shell needed
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:13:39 +0000


Thanks Mark, I've learnt something! Presumably, this is why my pal's ASC internals now reside in an AW shell. Should be easy to find one - the AW is common and cheap.

Neil Foddering Weymouth, England


>From: Mark <markstonich@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Mark <markstonich@earthlink.net>
>To: neil foddering <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>, joebz@optonline.net,
>classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: RE: [CR]ASC disaster- Shell needed
>Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:59:50 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
>
>AWs after about 1960 or so have press fit left hand ball cups.
>
>-----Original Message-----
> >From: neil foddering <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
> >Sent: Jan 8, 2006 3:19 PM
> >To: joebz@optonline.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> >Subject: RE: [CR]ASC disaster- Shell needed
> >
> >I have a friend who had the same problem, and now uses his ASC internals
>in
> >an AW shell. He had someone else do the necessary work, which involved
> >fitting the ASC left hand ball cup (which is a press fit) into the
>threaded
> >AW shell. As far as I'm aware (and no doubt, I'll be corrected very
>quickly
> >if wrong!) only the ASC's ball cup is a press fit, all others being
> >threaded.