Sunday, March 27, 2022

Refurbishing Parts...

 We are still getting occasional cold days here, which means some time to work indoors on refurbishing the various small parts that old bicycles use. Over this weekend, I re-built a 1950s era Sturmey Archer 3-speed shifter. I also began work refurbishing and reblocking a set of 1950s British bike pedals.

Reblocking pedals can be a challenge if the new blocks are of a different length than the old. In this case, I used some star-shaped lock washers to make up the slight difference in the blocks (the new blocks were a touch shorter than the originals), and to help lock the blocks in place (I hate spinning blocks). The picture of the pedals below shows a refurbished pedal (on top) and a pedal waiting to be finish (underneath the new pedal).





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