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Monsieur_Chien
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If it ain't broke...

Can someone remind me why I felt it necessary to take off the cassette and derailleur that was doing such a spiffig job of keeping my chain on and replace it with single cogs and a tensioner that utterly fail to do just that?

Also: if anyone could spare a hand or two to make said single cog and tensioner actually work I'll be delighted to supply them with beer.

Voidcore
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nate if you can wheel it to polo tonight il have a go?

Harmeen
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can give it a tickle if needed.

snottyotter
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Bring it down, I'll bring a hammer, will you bring my cassette tool too, I've got a non park one you can keep.

Monsieur_Chien
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Boom, you guys are sooooper lovely, thanks. Thanks Rob, chain stretch tool and cassette tool are the only tools I gave away that i regularly-ish need, will bring beers/cider for you.

victor
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Could anyone bring a cable cutter? I need to put a new brake cable that I need to cut first. Thanks!

Voidcore
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I will bring cable cutter chain tool and Allen keys, that should be all or Nate do you need casette tool?

Monsieur_Chien
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Got it working, thanks everyone who helped!

Eventually settled on using the derailleur from my other bike - far superior solution.

Anyone got a 19 or 20tooth single cog? Mine is from a cassette so is ramped, not a big issue so can bide time...

Also need a proper spacing kit if anyone has one going? Currently using lots of pissy plastic single spacers bulked up with additional cogs - not pretty.

Drew
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If it's ramped you could use bigger cogs to keep it in place until you get ss specific one.

JustBroken
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On the DMR most people use those gusset tensioners in push rather than pull mode. There was an 18t SS specific cog in the bag of bits I chucked at you with the bike which might help a bit. From the hunt I had when I owned it there are a couple of options on e-bay, have a search for 'Superstar singlespeed kit' they give you a SS specific cog and alloy spaces for less than most spacer kits alone. Certainly had 20t with alloy spacers for not much over £10.

Voidcore
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Does anyone have a bit of 9 speed chain? Need about 4-6 links, please bring to polo if you do thank you

snottyotter
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Actually, I have 4 to 6 links in my bag from work, I'll bring them.

Voidcore
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sorted thank xxx

idris
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Anyone got an avid bleed kit I could borrow?

snottyotter
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Them tings are expensive for a couple of syringes and some fittings, I believe there is an after market version that is only a bit of a rip off.

Drew
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If I was still allowed into the lab I could have got some syringes and tubing.

snottyotter
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It's the shitty screw on fittings that cost, the rest is just general cheapo crap.

idris
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yeah its the screw/clamp that i carnt find.