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).