My Dawes of (im)Perfection.

Yups, a nice time was had by all :)

Back home now and straight down the shed to continue the operation. I thought I'd try and resurrect the old graunchy cartridge bearings first, just as an experiment....

So, take your notchy bearing, prise off a seal on one side, then cafefully fill the bearing with AutoSol metal polish!...

Then spin the inner race (using a handy pillar drill) whilst holding the outer race so the bearing running surfaces and balls polish and clean themselves (in theory)...

Then strip the entire lot down and wash and clean out all the metal polish and crud...

and slowly reassemble the whole lot...

and...

Re-grease and reinstall... onlyto find that they're better but still not great, erks.

So, Plan B, just install the new bearing bearings ya plonker and stop faffing about....

That done, everythings lurrrrrrrvley and smooth, whahey.

Next up, remove and check the BB, regrease the threads and reassemble and fit the crank and chainwheel from the donor Dawes...

Getting there...

Then, remove the rear wheel and chain from the Dawes and scrub and clean and re-cut the chain (4 links shorter) to fit ScobsWell's requirements...

Phowwwwaarrrr!

Then start swapping over brakes and front wheel...

...and fettle long-reach calipers that don't need to be so long-reach anymore!

Getting there, too excited, can't sleep, big kid, yeah I know :) etc etc etc