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Midschoolfool:
Well I can't believe it.
So the first guy who does my machining. Close friend. Like, real close. His mum is dying and she just went into a care home. So cool I asked my second friend. Forgetting his wife had fallen down the stairs and broke her foot.
Got talking to the guy who sent me the hub and decided I was going to fookin go for it. At first I laced it 3x, before realising after about three hours the spokes were not long enough. Soul destroying. So I spent the next three hours pulling it back apart and doing it again. I could barely walk this morning having spent several hours on the floor. Got out my truing stand and started tightening the spokes. There is literally a 1mm buckle in it I can't seem to get out but I am fine with that. I have NOS wheels much worse.
Dear god, what a set of wheels.
Into black bags. I am tired of wiping off finger prints :LolLolLolLol:
Midschoolfool:
I meant the spokes were too long for 3x. They were creaking, and still poking out a few mm.
Midschoolfool:
OK so a problem. Old wheel and pegs 14mm. The problem is that I can get a axle adapter for the peg. Problem is it would not reach into the frame. I can get an axle adapter for the frame, problem is it wouldn't go into the peg. So something would end up on the piste. Either the wheel in the dropout or the peg.
This is a big problem. Which meant either use an axle adapter and change the pegs to 10mm, or get those thread on axle adapters that turn the whole poking out part into 14. Problem is there are none of those for sale, and the one set I found he was asking imo too much given they were missing vital parts. Ugh.
Now if you know my STA you will know it has numerous NOS SNAFU parts on. All era correct, too. So when these come up I had to have a long think.
Now you will note the prices on them. However, that is the OG price tag. From 24 years ago. Usually this is tripled or quadrupled, but in this case it was the same. However, the keen eyed among you will note the price is in dollars, meaning bend over and spread this is gonna hurt.
So I put it on the back burner for a few days. I then looked again, and realised that there is one specific part that can save me here.
And that is the axle adapter for 10mm itself. It is hard to explain, and I think they will need minor modifications but yeah. That thing could save me having to use two adapters or actual drilled 10mm pegs. Something that in NOS condition? you ain't finding unless they were made yesterday.
Most notably of course, the date.
2001. The same year as the STA. So I added them to the basket (two sets) and did the calculations. In the end it was going to cost 79 quid. Which sounds like so much. Like, madness. Thing is when you actually think about it that is 20 quid per peg. New high end pegs? 25 quid each. So yeah it was a no brainer in the end. That is what they would cost you now with inflation so it's actually very reasonable IMO.
The BOA arrived today. So once I have done my computery things I will take a shower and then sit down and get comfy before pulling it, and its 70 odd bearings, to bits.
Midschoolfool:
Dude sod that. I think that was worse than building a wheel. How the eff did they make loads of these a day?
Ah well, done now.
Midschoolfool:
OK a little trick I learned from my road bikes.
First up slot your rear brake into the fork with its hardware on. IE the flat/curved nut thing. Then measure the ID of the fork tube. Then order one of these in the correct size, with it being 2mm less than the ID of the fork tube.
Then drill the REAR hole on the fork to 8mm. And then.
And done. The key thing being it makes the shaft 8mm thick in total, so plenty strong. It also gives you back the two clamping surfaces, whereas running a nut inside the fork only gives you a thinner one. It's also bang tidy of course. Same trick I used on my 990 plate so there was nothing sharp sticking up.
Also.
The chain I bought? ugh. Looks like the seller abandoned Ebay about a year ago looking at feedback and I have been ghosted. Messaged him twice no answer. This could take weeks. So, I went on Source and paid 64 quid for the same chain. I will duke it out with pp and ebay now for a refund of my 60. I can't let it stop me though, I want this done and dusted.
Sadly with temps being just above freezing I can not paint the bars. I need at least 10c for that. So I am hoping next week warms up a tad.
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