Dan Just as in that fantastic bike (your Appaloosa), and its great components, it's OK to invest in good tools, too.
You will be doing this again. And then again for friends. And it will be a meditative pleasure each time, with good tools, great components, and fantastic bikes. On Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 1:41:57 PM UTC-7 Nick Payne wrote: > And to add to what has already been said, try to develop a touch for how > tight fastening and fittings need to be. You don't want to leave them > insufficiently tight so that they slip or come unscrewed, but you also > shouldn't do them up absolutely bar tight, which risks bending or breaking > things and making them very difficult to take apart later. A good mechanic > develops a touch for such things. If you're unsure, you can get torque > wrenches fairly cheaply, and Park Tool, for example, publish a table of the > suggested torque settings for various parts of the bicycle: > https://www.parktool.com/assets/img/repairhelp/torque.pdf. The values > there are given in inch-pounds. If you have a torque wrench calibrated in > N-m (a lot are), then divide the inch-pound values by 9 to get the N-m > value. > > Nick Payne > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/eaaf4323-9ce0-47fe-bfab-dee26579ee48n%40googlegroups.com.
