There ought to be a law against people doing things like this to bicycles. If you see something like this on the street, you ought to be able to make a citizen's arrest.
1. remember that nifty slightly overpainted maybe Colnago maybe Arabesque? now I have to get it rolling and even the dust caps are massacred. I am soaking them hoping I can get a flatheaded screw driver in there (I seem to see a slot) but does anyone else have another suggestion? these cranks are disposable.
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2. I am trying to dismantle a Shimano 600 headset (it's pitted or the bearings need replacing at least) the nut and washer are off and unthreading the adjustable race SHOULD be trivial.
but about halfway up the threading, it jams. and I cannot figure out why. Have I left a second washer in there by mistake? Have I cross threaded it somehow?
Did the jerk who sold it to me without bothering to mention the severely pitted headset, frozen seat post and stem maybe cross thread it?
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I am afraid that I have already powered it too far as I have started to damage the facets or whatever they are called. I am not even sure I can spin it back down on the tube.
I really don't want damage the fork as it is a Vitus aluminum fork, unique to this bike.
in the event that I have stripped the whatever you call the bit where you stick the wrench, does anyone have a suggestion for how I can handle it instead? wrap the headset in a rubber strip and use a pipe wrench? (ooohhh brutal.)
any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong. Or how I best proceed from here?
many thanks
Peter Stock
Toronto ON Canada