DIY chain guard?

throwing quotes into the mix is popular. a google phrase search soon
evolves into a novel. amazing
here i apply the well known quote-"exasperation is the expletive
deleted of invention"
the area is getting dug up and thrown around to pile buildings on to
sell expletive deleted to tourists and god help me i can't go 4 miles
without cleaning the chain.and i switched to aluminum chain rings from
exotic japanese steel. is this what's bothering me. you bet!
so i looked at it in absolute apopopoplexy
and saw one hose clamp on the seat stay, one hose clamp on the seat
post, two L shaped aluminum strips hooked over the hose clamps' bands,
and a rubber maid tub cut into an L then positoned over the chain and
bolted to the aluminum strips.

any comments?

On 3 Aug 2005 15:22:27 -0700, wrote:

throwing quotes into the mix is popular. a google phrase search soon
evolves into a novel. amazing
here i apply the well known quote-"exasperation is the expletive
deleted of invention"
the area is getting dug up and thrown around to pile buildings on to
sell expletive deleted to tourists and god help me i can't go 4 miles
without cleaning the chain.and i switched to aluminum chain rings from
exotic japanese steel. is this what's bothering me. you bet!
so i looked at it in absolute apopopoplexy
and saw one hose clamp on the seat stay, one hose clamp on the seat
post, two L shaped aluminum strips hooked over the hose clamps' bands,
and a rubber maid tub cut into an L then positoned over the chain and
bolted to the aluminum strips.

any comments?

Yeah: WTF?

JT


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wrote:
rubber maid

It's quite kinky when you see it written with two words.

I don't like the rubber tub, too heavy. Try aluminum foil, possibly wraped over
a heavier than window screen screen.

I don't like the hose clamps either. Most steel food cans are suitable to
improvise a clamp with.

How about mounting a toothbrush, or parts of a scrub brush, over/under/beside
the chain or rings to clean as you go?

Next time you clean the chain, remove, shake in mineral spirits vigorously, pour
off dirty spirits, repeat until spirits don't get dirty. Put in container,
cover with oil, let sit for half an hour. Remove, let excess oil drip off, wipe
chain well. Put the chain into a heavy plastic bag with a half pound of grease,
squeeze for fifteen minutes to work the grease into the bearings. Remove chain,
wipe, and brush to remove all the grease you can. Reinstall. A greased chain
can be brushed and wiped clean. If one stops at the oil, the oil washes grit
into the bearings. Grease doesn't do so as much. A greased chain gets just as
dirty on the outside, but stays cleaner on the inside, so it lasts longer. For
appearances' sake it needs cleaning just as often, but a brushing suffices here,
don't have to take it off and wash the bearings out.


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throwing quotes into the mix is popular. a google phrase search soon
evolves into a novel. amazing
here i apply the well known quote-"exasperation is the expletive
deleted of invention"
the area is getting dug up and thrown around to pile buildings on to
sell expletive deleted to tourists and god help me i can't go 4 miles
without cleaning the chain.and i switched to aluminum chain rings from
exotic japanese steel. is this what's bothering me. you bet!
so i looked at it in absolute apopopoplexy
and saw one hose clamp on the seat stay, one hose clamp on the seat
post, two L shaped aluminum strips hooked over the hose clamps' bands,
and a rubber maid tub cut into an L then positoned over the chain and
bolted to the aluminum strips.

any comments?

a corner run cut off a tub, curve over CR might not foul the rear wheel
or bend to worthlessness on impact.

grease? look closely or experiment with a mixer bowl of puddding. add
hhmmmmmm coconut flakes. whhirrrrrrr-down they go! a brownian-like
motion concept plus gravity or S-T-P or ???

with the grease, as noticed by sheldon brown in realting how trans oils
for chain lube tend to collect dirt in the side links (more frequent
cleaning intervals with trans oils at 70 than say 40 weight or less)
but the grease hides the dirt producing rouge!! google rouge. grease
plus grim equals rouge then grinding compound then abrasive gunk then a
new chain. its in there. you didn't see it. first notice is a
coagulation into small aggregates of lumpoy stuff surrounded by the now
grease-rouge
the aggregates are islands of what once was firmly connected to the
chain now ground off and floating.

i cut a temp cver out of a gallon h20 jug's bottom corner this morning
and attached to seat stay over the cluster's last

slowly moving forward on this, i found a nice length of aircraft plexi
in the bin and
will mount across the chain run and see how much dirt is deflected.
time ran out to mount this and again exasperated with the sandpile
special
i grabbed a pl;astic 30 gallon trash bag with red plastic loops to
check the mouth fit from seat stay to seat post.
it fits. tie the left side red loop to the seat stay above gear
cluster, twist bag to maintain
correct width over chain, tie right side loop over front deray.
made on half the sandpile tour and will report on total collection
reduction tomorrow.
this is a publix superduper bag not a woolmort bag. pub from what i
hear owns the factory on this. the loops are
thin red plastic not wide red plastic-the wide reds are weak,
a touring special! bbbbzzzzzz.
say passing left larry.

campy?

first bag run. 6-7 miles
less visible grit. more oil.
but same crunch factor: disappointed. washed chain and decrunched
bag covers cluster to front deray completely hiding chain from
above,.front deray to leading edge cr is open
with a DIY $2 guard on the CR leading edge-a guard usually effective
for
1 week cleanings hereabouts before excavation maleria.
didn't consider sand falling upward.
need scale!!

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first bag run. 6-7 miles

without even breathing hard

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