Re: RE: [CR]ASC disaster- Shell needed

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Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:55:31 -0500
From: <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: RE: [CR]ASC disaster- Shell needed
In-reply-to: <BAY115-F54C34B307EBC93FCA0D8CBF230@phx.gbl>
To: neil foddering <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
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cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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This sounds like a good idea. Of course I think I have got rid of all my AW shells around here, and I gave up a really good press when I moved a while back. But the vise is probably good enough for this job. Thanks to all.

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: neil foddering
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 05:13:00 -0000
Subject: RE: [CR]ASC disaster- Shell needed


> Thanks Mark, I've learnt something! Presumably, this is why my

\r?\n> pal's ASC

\r?\n> internals now reside in an AW shell. Should be easy to find one -

\r?\n> the AW is

\r?\n> common and cheap.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Neil Foddering

\r?\n> Weymouth, England

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> >From: Mark <markstonich@earthlink.net>

\r?\n> >Reply-To: Mark <markstonich@earthlink.net>

\r?\n> >To: neil foddering <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>,

\r?\n> joebz@optonline.net,

\r?\n> >classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> >Subject: RE: [CR]ASC disaster- Shell needed

\r?\n> >Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:59:50 -0600 (GMT-06:00)

\r?\n> >

\r?\n> >AWs after about 1960 or so have press fit left hand ball cups.

\r?\n> >

\r?\n> >-----Original Message-----

\r?\n> > >From: neil foddering <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>

\r?\n> > >Sent: Jan 8, 2006 3:19 PM

\r?\n> > >To: joebz@optonline.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> > >Subject: RE: [CR]ASC disaster- Shell needed

\r?\n> > >

\r?\n> > >I have a friend who had the same problem, and now uses his ASC

\r?\n> internals

\r?\n> >in

\r?\n> > >an AW shell. He had someone else do the necessary work, which

\r?\n> involved> >fitting the ASC left hand ball cup (which is a press

\r?\n> fit) into the

\r?\n> >threaded

\r?\n> > >AW shell. As far as I'm aware (and no doubt, I'll be corrected

\r?\n> very

\r?\n> >quickly

\r?\n> > >if wrong!) only the ASC's ball cup is a press fit, all others being

\r?\n> > >threaded.