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There's a 6/13 frame on eBay for £200. How bad could it be?

That's £200 you could be putting towards an Eagle AXS groupset

I'm just reading a review of that groupset, it's certainly not cheap.

Not a system six though is it

No, no it isn’t.

SystemSix and Six13 are like yin and yang

I would go quite a long way for a NOS 56cm System Six frame.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOS-CANNONDALE-SYSTEM-SIX-ALLOY-CARBON-ROAD-BIKE-FRAME-SET-56-CM-/283152658516

Wrong colour though

Sweet talk @dglshrn

@dammit Ha ha. I'm still 50/50. Unfortunately inherited a hoarders gene from both parents.

Wooft, Hollowgram Si chainset with spidering really is a bit of a nightmare. Pretty awkward to torque up the spidering to spec without putting the arms in a proper vice.

Seems I'm also short of a 7.5mm non drive side spacer.
Ive got a 109mm axle, 68mm bb shell on a caad10 disc.

I'm following this https://www.cannondale.com/~/media/Files/PDF/Dorel/Cannondale/Common/Support/Accessories/SISL2_Road_Crankset_Instr_1012.ashx

109mm is the correct axle for caad10?
Once I have the 7.5mm NDS spacer I'm good to go?

Already starting to think i should just sack off the chainset and go with dura ace.
Should I see it through? Really worth all the bother?

Yes.

Yes.
Think you can buy a spacer kit with a fair amount of different size spacers for about £18.

A bench vice and a bucket load of 242 is essential in my experience.

I share Howard’s sentiments.

I got some really good soft jaws for my vice which didn’t mark the anodising

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Ok I think I'm going to go buy a proper vice today.
I have this tiny wee mini vice that's been useful up until now. But the vice it's self started to slip and rotate on the work bench.
I wrapped the arms in a towel to avoid marking it which seemed to work.
Bought the spacer kit for £18 and paid £6 for an allegedly fast delivery...
Soft vice jaws? Are these just rubber covers? Will Google.

The good news is that I got the rear break hose threaded through the frame with no bother at all. Took all of two minutes. Last internal routed frame I worked on was a 2 hour faff.

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Use a rag and don’t skimp on the torque or the loctite

yep and remember;

Loctite 638 for bb30 bearings
Loctite 243 for lockring

I'll admit I've went with a different school of thought with the bearings and only used grease.
Hoping that if there's any noise the grease will help... maybe.

Nope - the grease won’t help.

Bugger. Well they are pressed in now. Will loctite next time around.

Grease won't do any harm, but it just gets pushed out when you fit the bearings. Because they are a tight interference fit and grease is thick.

I've never needed to use Loctite on the bearings, only the crank spider, where it's absolutely vital to prevent noise and the spider wandering off :) You can use the everyday non-permanent thread locking compound blue for that. 242 and 243 seem to be used interchangeably in the tech guide, curiously.