Yeah, I will sell it. Somehow I have this psychological defect where I am unable to keep something if I would not be willing to pay the price I can get by selling it.
That antenna looks great!
The new disc arrived and installing was simple enough. However, I found another problem - my (hydraulic) brake must have air in it, as it barely has any stopping power. Getting rid of the air ("bleeding the brake" as its called) seemed to be a bit of an dark art, with lots of convoluted and partially conflicting pieces of information available on the Internet.zbigi wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 12:11 pmI tried righting a slighly bent bike brake disc. By the time I got any practice and feel to it, I made the situation bad enough that I'm not really able to fix it now... The tolerances between the calipers are super small and I gave up after a couple hours of bending stuff back and forth. I ordered a set of two new discs for $7, they should arrive early next week.
Realized I never posted the solution. I made a few mistakes. I did not clean the jets thoroughly. I got carb cleaner on the rubber parts and it deformed. I messed up something with the float jet as well. The mechanic got it sorted out and the scooter is working fine now.
Thanks for the advice and moral support. However, once the brake fluid started squirting from a loose fitting (between the tube+syringe from the crappy bleeding kit and the valve in the brake caliper) all over my living room, I decided it's too much for me:) Any potential improvement on the fitting would require trial and error, which would likely result in more squirting and more damage. I handed the bike off to local repair shop.
Thanks for the tips! Definitely going to try it on junk boards first. No sense in destroying the PS4 motherboard. I opened up the CD-ROM. The whole console was caked in dust and some of it managed to get inside the disc drive. Worked as it was designed once I cleaned it out.
It's already started. My DW keeps calling me her electrical engineer because I keep messing around with electronics. I'm very curious about inner workings of items and learning about them keeps me happy. My next project is replacing the right analog stick on a working Wii U gamepad. Not difficult at all but since it still works, I'm less likely to fix it right away.
The brand is Metcal* if anyone is curious. It is really nice to work with.
In my case, the bike shop also didn't manage to successfully bleed the brakes. After that, they proceeded to replace various parts of the brake, suspecting that they are letting in air. They just called me (it took them several weeks), saying that the bike is ready and the bill is around $60. It's not nothing, but it looks like I'd never have the experise or conditions (a garage or yard) to pull this off. Or even the connections - the brakes are 15 years old at this point so getting spare parts is getting trickier (apparently some are no longer listed in stores), and the guys at the shop found them by calling people around and asking if anyone still has any.
Totally agree. Disc brakes are completely unnecessary on most bicycles. V-brakes or good caliper brakes can easily lock the wheel on any bicycle. Disc brakes are only necessary if you need to do a lot of carefully applied braking such as on downhill bikes. I've noticed that they started putting them on road bikes too (not much braking in road racing), which seemed silly. However, after googling around a bit, I learned that the reason is that they can make the wheels lighter (a rotating bike part feels 2-3x heavier due to the moment of inertia, think wheels, crank, pedals) because the rims can be less beefy. However, the main reason they need to do this is because there are minimum weight limits on road bikes and so unless you ride an optimal roadbike with an optimally trained body using a 4-5 figure wheelset, disc brakes on roadbikes is not the best place to put the money.