Recent content by Karate Monkey

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The Other received a nice copper whistle for Christmas, but the block (plastic) was glued in and needed to be adjusted. Rather than go through that particular trouble, I made a new block out of juniper. Some refining later, and there is a nice friction-fit block. It needs final voicing...

You could make that with a couple of sheets of pink foam glued together and a hot knife, just saying.

Two new members of the family: It's been about 2 years since we've had a cat, and everyone was pretty sad about it. We went to the SPCA (who had almost no cats!) and found Nina (tortie) and Matheus (orange). Nina decided to stick her foot out and put it on my chest, them hug the cage...

NGL, that's pretty awesome looking. For $50, I'd hang it in the garage as wall art.

@Patrick it's not really something that can be offered as a solid guide, since it requires modifying whatever you have. To be fair, there's a few ways to skin this particular cat, including using a (manual) annular cutter to pare back the dropout hoods, too. Not all forks would work there, and...

For those playing along at home: it worked great. There is even room with the current brake caliper to shave another millimeter off the brake side, so there's practically no problem. A nice Float 32 resurrected, and several parts saved from the landfill.

Deboosting Serviced an old, used fork for a coworker to replace a fork-shaped object. Found a bottom headset/crown race/equipment to mount it into the bike. Rebuilt a busted wheel with a new rim. Total cost: a 29" tube (because they did not want to use it tubeless). We got the fork on...

I use a drill bit that is about 1/2-2/3 the size of the eyelet I am trying to make, then I clamp it in a vise. Make the eyelet first by wrapping the wire around the bit (you should be able to get a full circle without tools if you are using a full length rod). Clamp a second bit into the vise...

You only really need to send stuff to "technical" repairers if waterproof is 100% a requirement. If you aren't going on an expedition, or wearing a dry suit, well...considering that most membrane-style wear doesn't actually work to keep you DRY, this is a low requirement for most repair work...

It's more about reducing corrosive potential in bicycle shocks. If you will service it regularly, atmospheric air won't hurt it...if you don't, though, there's a good chance to simply start corroding the shims/other assorted parts.

Glass is better. Plastic damps the vibes (literally). I have quite expensive cleaning solution that is used for removing scale from brass/steel for watches/clocks, so filling an entire tank would be dumb. I just fill a shallow glass dish and prop it up on a couple of upturned tumblers in the...

@THATmanMANNY I'll check in the morning to see what I've got. Worst case, you'll need to stack washers under the bolt if I don't have the right diameter.

Hold the wedge in line with the stem, and get a measurement from the top where the bolt head rests, to the bottom of the wedge. That looks like a standard M8, which I should have. You can porch pickup it (Colts Neck or Keansburg), or I can pass it along.

Hollow/solid, and what is the thread pitch? I'll dig...