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I'm no expert but the leather shop which I bought the dye say leathers are usually dyed with this kind of stuff.
I've had dye rub in small amounts from new saddles so I guess it's a normal occurrence for blackened soft leather saddles to bleed a little.
Who knows till you try it eh? :)
Tortured myself with the rest of this disc. ohgod :(
If i can recommend anything, just buy a new one. Cleaning old glue sucks.
Ended up scraping as much as I could with the screwdriver and carefully using acetone with scotch pad from the underside only (so it couldn't run onto the disc surface). Then I sanded the whole lot with 240 followed by 400 followed by Autosol followed by washing the filth from the disc with grease and wax remover.
Nothing perfect but the result is pretty damn good I think.
Almost like a new one!
Next, the axles.
This was challenge because there is 0 information anywhere and few pictures to reference. Internet, I am disappoint.
You can see here the disc is not dished and the bearing races are offset toward the fixed side.
I roughly measured the exposed sides ~24mm fixed and ~11mm freewheel side. Bearing races are both the same distance from the outside edge.. so a ~13mm offset.
To center the wheel I'll needed to shift it across.
I also found a picture of someone selling a disc with spare axles. By the looks of it, the drive side cones must stack as compact as possible. There is a thinner 17mm hexnut on one end but the standard nut on the other.
I've used a mix of the Campy and EAI bits to create the shortest stack possible and spacers from the 126mm skewer to build the 13mm of extra on the other.
I had a brain fade and miscalculated the offset as 8mm at first, these pictures here are with a 5mm spacer instead of the 10mm spacer...my bad. I have since fixed my errors :). Will fix pics later.
Interestingly I couldn't remove the bearing retainers from the disc (wasn't sure how) but it wasn't necessary. With the axles removed I filled them with grease and slipped the bearings in easy enough. (I wish I had a picture but hands too greasy to handle the camera).
Success!
Driveside.
Non (with thread cover)
Stretching the tub unglued:
I am every so slightly worried about the 23mm tub clearing the bridge.. I used to run 23mm clinchers but this is a bit fatter. We will see.
Whichever idiot used this disc before me had his brakes too low and they have slightly marred just inside the disc surface. Going to pick up a paint pen to fix it up a little sometime.
:)