Well, I won’t be riding my bike for a while. In light of the aforementioned bearing problem and the ongoing bent wheel issue I decided to order a new set of wheels, and a front brake to match the Avid BB7 fitted last night.
I ended up ordering this Shimano XT M756 / Mavic XC 717 wheelset which was $239.98, and a 160mm Front version of the 2007 Avid BB7 for $54.98.
So, now I just wait. It’ll probably be a week or so before I get the brake and wheels, and I’ll only have a usable bike after I put all of that together. Unfortunately I’m already antsy to ride more.
Even if I were to put what I have back together the front bearing would require some special wrenches and lots of time to adjust the bearings, and they’d be really questionable.
Completely off topic…sorry…but I could not readily find an email address to contact you. Amazing site & project-photo albums. Found you doing search on Playstation 1 mods. Excellent feature! On the also excellent section about cleanig flux, I am curious to know, besides aesthetics/looks, are there any technical reasons for or benefits from cleaning the flux? I have one hard wired (no PCB) tube preamp made by Cary Audio Design (SPL 94, a 1994 model)which I open not long ago for the first time (all tubes are outside,on unit’stop) and I was surprised by the amount of flux present at all soldering points…unit is a highly regarded one and was hand wired personally by designer/owner Dennis Hadd…however the omission of that last detail surprised me…
Thanks in advance for you input…………….Mario
Mario:
Hey there… For one, I can be contacted at c0nsumer@nuxx.net. Second, thanks for the comments about the site. Regarding your amp, flux left on things is just fine if it’s what is known as no-clean flux. That is, it’s flux whose residue won’t have any sort of detrimental effect on the connection. I would imagine that such a high end amp would be soldered in a responsible manner and using no-clean flux solder is pretty common, so I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s probably just fine.
Take care…
-Steve
Thanks a lot, Steve.