Back in my youth there was a grouchy old bike shop owner (was there any other kind?) who would pour a bit of kerosene into an old dried out coaster brake hub as a quickie improvement. I have used 10w-40 oil to do much the same for years. Now for the paying customers the hub gets properly overhauled and grease is used, especially on the brake surfaces. I did my first coaster hub overhaul after working a couple of years in the local shops. By then I was pretty comfortable with SA AW 3- spd hubs and was intimidated by a simple Bendix (probably mod. 70) coaster hub...
Andy Stewart
Raleigh, NC
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> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:06:58 +0200
> From: "Jacob Sidenius" <crlist@sidenius.net>
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> Subject: [CR]Oil or grease nipple on old Komet Super (coaster) hub?
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> Does anyone know if this is actually a oil or a grease nipple on this
> Fichtel & Sachs Komet Super hub?
> http://i24.ebayimg.com/
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> A wooden stick only tells me that it's dry right now!
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> Thanks
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> Jacob Sidenius
> Copenhagen, Denmark.
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> > Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:20:44 -0700
> > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:41:58 +0200
> From: "Jacob Sidenius" <crlist@sidenius.net>
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> Does anyone know if this is actually a oil or a grease nipple on this
> Fichtel & Sachs Komet Super hub?
> http://i24.ebayimg.com/
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> A wooden stick only tells me that it's dry right now!
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> Thanks
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> Jacob Sidenius
> Copenhagen, Denmark.
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>> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:12:41 -0400
> From: Jeff Slotkin <jeffslotkin@comcast.net>
> To: Jacob Sidenius <crlist@sidenius.net>
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> Subject: [CR]Re: Oil or grease nipple on old Komet Super (coaster) hub?
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> Thought somebody with specific product knowledge would have answered
> this, but here's some that's not as specific: every coaster brake I've
> messed with uses grease.
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> In fact, I learned this around te age of ten, before I realized that
> the bearings themselves needed grease. Thus, I had a nice greasy rear
> hub and a bone-dry front one (I cleaned and reassembled it).
>
> Jeff Slotkin
> Charleston, SC USA
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>
> On Oct 18, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Jacob Sidenius wrote:
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>> Does anyone know if this is actually a oil or a grease nipple on this
>> Fichtel & Sachs Komet Super hub?
>> http://i24.ebayimg.com/
>>
>> A wooden stick only tells me that it's dry right now!
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jacob Sidenius
>> Copenhagen, Denmark.
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