jim beam wrote:
41 wrote:
jim beam wrote:


how do you get a 20-something mm retainer in through a 18mm hole? you'd
have to remove the dust cover, something much easier said than done.


struggling to remove dust cover... welded and krazy glued in place...
the nano-scale bonding! The interstitials and the dislocation density!
The very electrons are intermingling... must use Superpowers... must
concentrate: focus all boorishness, rudeness, adolescent immaturi ty,
acting out, ego, into a single narrow beam to jimmy it out...
concentrate, focus! Use all Superpowers in unison, to form Jerk Beam!
May be able to lift it out... No! Unable to overcome the facts!

Curses. Foiled again. By a dustcap.p


dust caps are thin & weak. they are not designed for removal. attempts
to do so damage or destroy them. as you'd know if you'd ever bothered
to try.

I'm enjoying this too much and let's face it, you deserve everything
you are going to get over it.

So tell me, if they are not designed for removal, how is it that the
forged races of Campagnolo Record and original Shimano Dura Ace were
available as spare parts? They didn't come as a set with replacement
dust caps, by the way.