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2nd dibbbbbsssssah!

good news... please drop me a PM if the sale to kboy falls through!

does nr 1 mount to the brake hole + bottom of forks? if so, dibs!

If this is correct, and it's suitable for 700C/27" wheels, then 2nd dibs!

literally up to the hilt

euphemism?

Ah, I see. I'd imagine it's an issue with how ID is reading the excel file, but I can't see from the import window anything that's awry. Good luck with the project anyway!

I'm not sure why it would be doing that, but just for shits and giggles, try exporting the excel file as a .csv and importing it using the Data Merge function. Thats how I import masses of tabled data anyhoo, and with a bit of fiddling it usually works.

(and £199 might be just a tad optimistic)

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Thought you were more than cable of handling it.

let's settle this shimano a mano.

I have a fairly similar Huret, in fairly tatty condition, but complete with spring. Yours for the price of a pint, if you want to try and meld them together.

Hi fruitbat,

That would be most generous of you; I may very well take you up on that offer when I have the derailleur to hand, and can tell exactly what form the spring takes.

it grinds my gears when the topic shifts suddenly.

On the hand-tattooing front, I got this freehand done by a traditional bamboo tattooist on the Thai/Myanmar border, 5yrs ago. It hurt more (and took longer) than a machine, but healed much quicker... hardly any redness/swelling, one or two drops of blood, and three days later it was fully healed. It's a little more blurry than it used to be, but at the time I remember being really impressed by the light line that bamboo could achieve.

thread derailleur.

hope springs returnal.

Fick it - just gamble the whole £5 on a spring and have at it with some pliers. Life on the edge and all that...

I couldn't be that reckless.

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Hi,

Fairly simple question this; has anyone had any luck/experience with fabricating/modifying a return spring for a rear derailleur?

I recently bought this, which I believe is a Huret Jubilee, those weight weenies out there will probably recognize it. It's missing a return spring, which, after studying several pictures of Jubilee derailleurs, I believe is similar to these, but on the return spring, the straight section of the spring is longer.

Should I:

A) Buy the replacements above, and modify them accordingly with patience and a pair of pliers

B) Try and fabricate a completely new one from a spoke (I read on another forum somewhere about someone doing this with a ti spoke, as the original return spring wasn't powerful enough and the ti spoke was a few hundredths of a gram lighter)

C) Not be such a cheapskate when it comes to buying stuff.

D) HTFU/£1

A-thankyou.

I do think that would look cool. But if you want to restore it Humbrol was the first thing I thought of too. You wouldn't need anything over the Humbrol - you might want to strip the old paint off with something first though. But I'd avoid anything that could fuck up a handsome head badge.

Humbrol was the first thing I thought of too... any decent hobby shop will stock it. If you insist on painting over a perfectly usable headbadge, I'd second the notion of stripping the current layer of paint off (white spirit/thinners/the missus' nail polish remover/expensive vodka) to avoid filling out too much of the detail.

Or just strip it back to the bare metal, polish it up nicely, and clearcoat it.

The most idiot-proof ftp interface I've found is Dropbox, especially when using it locally, through the OS; treat the Dropbox folders as local folders, drag and drop files into said folders, share public links with a right click on the files/folders you want to share, paste it into an email.

It's a little more complex when sharing private folders, but even then it's far easier than most ftp software/browser interfaces.

"Fuck my old boots"

Is my favourite marketing lingo.