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A boring update. Busy with work, not much spare time.
Got in contact again with Brett, he says he should have stripe decals in the shed so I hope to get my hands on some replacements.
Started on the Shamal.
There is a special tool to remove the dustcaps (typical Campy) but I couldn't source one or find anyone with one. In the end I CBF going to the extend of building one so I saturated them in RP70 till the caps spun freely and used some bits of plastic and a screwdriver to pop them off. One was VERY stubburn. The cap is soft as butter so small damage was unavoidable even from the plastic. Can deal.
You can see there is a small circular wire clip that holds the cap in place.
Moving on to the axles.
The EAI cones are different and have a larger race cone and a smaller hex bolt locking cone.
The shamal dust-caps sit snug around the lock cone so the EAI hex type can't be used; I have to use the original ones. A bit disappointing but not really a problem.
Every spare moment I have been hacking at the tub glue peeling it off with a screwdriver and sanding smooth underneath.
Usually I'd use chemicals for this but I don't want solvents anywhere near this disc.
This is going to take a long time.
Hell:
Also, the two saddles arrived.
The one in the background really good plastics without yellowing but non-original leather.
The other has original leather with no rips but plastics are trash, yellowed and cracked.
Going to get some leather dye and nourishment stuff tomorrow to bring the original leather back to health and do a swap.
Perfect saddle for this build I think!
:)