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broken spring on Record brake caliper
I recently broke the return spring on one of my campy record brakes
(for the second time!). These brakes are maybe 5 years old. Is this common? Does anyone have any idea why in the world this spring should break? BTW, I have a 30 year old set of Nuovo Record brakes, still working fine. Alan |
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broken spring on Record brake caliper
Alan Gabrielli wrote:
I recently broke the return spring on one of my campy record brakes (for the second time!). These brakes are maybe 5 years old. Is this common? Does anyone have any idea why in the world this spring should break? BTW, I have a 30 year old set of Nuovo Record brakes, still working fine. Alan are you using aggressive cleaning agents like simple green? |
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broken spring on Record brake caliper
On 2006-06-24 20:40:17 -0400, jim beam said:
Alan Gabrielli wrote: I recently broke the return spring on one of my campy record brakes (for the second time!). These brakes are maybe 5 years old. Is this common? Does anyone have any idea why in the world this spring should break? BTW, I have a 30 year old set of Nuovo Record brakes, still working fine. Alan are you using aggressive cleaning agents like simple green? actually, yes, but not frequently (I wipe it clean much more often than I clean it under the hose), but I never heard of Simple Green being a problem |
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broken spring on Record brake caliper
Alan Gabrielli wrote:
On 2006-06-24 20:40:17 -0400, jim beam said: Alan Gabrielli wrote: I recently broke the return spring on one of my campy record brakes (for the second time!). These brakes are maybe 5 years old. Is this common? Does anyone have any idea why in the world this spring should break? BTW, I have a 30 year old set of Nuovo Record brakes, still working fine. Alan are you using aggressive cleaning agents like simple green? actually, yes, but not frequently (I wipe it clean much more often than I clean it under the hose), but I never heard of Simple Green being a problem well it is - it's a stress corrosion agent. google for threads on what it does to chains. i have a set of rims with all the [plated] steel eyelets corroded out because of it too. solution: replace your spring and keep s.g. the heck away from your bike! be careful of other steel componentry, especially critical stuff like brake cables. replace where possible. |
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broken spring on Record brake caliper
On 2006-06-24 23:28:17 -0400, jim beam said:
Alan Gabrielli wrote: On 2006-06-24 20:40:17 -0400, jim beam said: Alan Gabrielli wrote: I recently broke the return spring on one of my campy record brakes (for the second time!). These brakes are maybe 5 years old. Is this common? Does anyone have any idea why in the world this spring should break? BTW, I have a 30 year old set of Nuovo Record brakes, still working fine. Alan are you using aggressive cleaning agents like simple green? actually, yes, but not frequently (I wipe it clean much more often than I clean it under the hose), but I never heard of Simple Green being a problem well it is - it's a stress corrosion agent. google for threads on what it does to chains. i have a set of rims with all the [plated] steel eyelets corroded out because of it too. solution: replace your spring and keep s.g. the heck away from your bike! be careful of other steel componentry, especially critical stuff like brake cables. replace where possible. thanks for the advice! |
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