41 wrote:
jim beam wrote:

41 wrote:

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
co ncentrate: 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.


can you use the race to press out a campy dust cap? sure you can!!!


Either you haven't gotten the point or you're just spouting to avoid
the issue, as usual.


it's a substantially non-trivial exercise, but hey, you can use a
s hotgun to open a door too - and it makes just about as much sense. not
that this would worry your pursuit of pedantry, but cup races are only
available for campy these days. and they also use a whole different
seal system, but let's not let mere fact get in the way of a massive
straw clutching exercise. or that you seem to have lost sight of the
fact that this still doesn't allow you to get a bearing cage in there.


You seem to have lost sight of the fact that we're all laughing at your
inability to remove a simple dustcap.

http://www.bikepro.com/products/hubs/hubs_campagnolo.html
http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/index.php/t-128742

In addition to the methods mentioned in these there are others that
work perfectly well.

Dust cap robustness varies greatly from hub to hub, with many or most
requiring no precautions. The one that people talk about as the most
difficult is for the Shimano right side freehubs.


so what about shimano? techically, yes we can remove the dust caps here
too. all we do is chemically dissolve the hub body away from the race
and dust cap, extract from solution, re-cast, re-forge and re-machine.


Nevertheless others seem to be able to succeed with this where you fail

http://tinyurl.com/6rwzl
http://tinyurl.com/8maek
http://tinyurl.com/aem6m

and if the job is botched anyway, there is the Morningstar replacement
dust cap mentioned in one of these, or that or another brand available
at Loose Screws, which are easily removed and reinserted.


er, even that pathetic straw clutching exercise supports what i've been
saying. the fact that the [shimano] dust cap gets damaged on removal
/requires/ an aftermarket replacement. as you'd know if you'd ever tried.

shooting your mouth on something you've never done as though you're an
expert? what an idiot.