The drill screams!
A customer left me with a Bora One front wheel.
A new axle catastrophe case.
Ugh, I'm stuck in a real pickle here.
The left end won't budge,
but it's in nice condition otherwise.
The customer came from S-oka Prefecture,
and said they took a detour after heading to the Shimano Suzuka event.
From M-atsu City to Suzuka Circuit
and then to our shop here is about twice that distance,
so calling it a "detour" is a stretch,
but apparently they decided that since they came all this way and other shops nearby refused the job,
they might as well make the trip to Osaka.
Just to note, no appointment was made beforehand.
Then on the 11th through 13th of this month—Sunday through Tuesday—customers came from the Kanto region ostensibly to visit during Obon holidays:
S-aitama Prefecture on the 11th (with appointment), K-anagawa Prefecture on the 12th (no appointment), and T-okyo on the 13th (with appointment).
(So I ended up not getting my Obon break after all)
Fortunately none of them overlapped, and each job was the type we wouldn't refuse and involved difficult, time-consuming work anyway.
And it's not just this time—I often end up asking customers coming from far away,
"Don't you have a bike shop nearby?"
The right end's threads are already stripped,
so I don't need to worry about reusing it.
I ground away the side
to create a flat gripping surface in the vise.
With the right end held in the vise this way
and an Allen key on the left end,
I tried to loosen it, but...
The right end snapped off.
With no choice, I move on to rougher methods.
The drill screams!
I ground away the flange on the left end.
I don't need to worry about reusing the hub axle, but
↑this ball race adjustment lock nut
needs to be recovered in good condition.
We had hub axles and left ends in stock,
but the customer already had both,
so we used theirs, cleaned the hub interior,
greased it up, and reassembled.
The customer was watching, so I didn't take photos,
but the front wheel needed just a tiny bit of truing and came out perfectly centered,
and the rear wheel had a slight rightward drift that seemed to be from years of use—I corrected just that.
↑replaced parts
Since I had the chance,
I asked to borrow this wheel for another matter
and got some photos of the valve area.
The butyl tube in the tire on this wheel—normally you don't insert the valve from the inner circumference side,
but when I tried it, the valve passed through the valve bush (the second generation, incidentally) quite smoothly.
But with a Tni (TPU tube),
it won't pass at all because the diameter itself has a positive tolerance, and the valve core's threading area bulges outward below it.
A customer left me with a Bora One front wheel.
A new axle catastrophe case.
Ugh, I'm stuck in a real pickle here.
The left end won't budge,
but it's in nice condition otherwise.
The customer came from S-oka Prefecture,
and said they took a detour after heading to the Shimano Suzuka event.
From M-atsu City to Suzuka Circuit
and then to our shop here is about twice that distance,
so calling it a "detour" is a stretch,
but apparently they decided that since they came all this way and other shops nearby refused the job,
they might as well make the trip to Osaka.
Just to note, no appointment was made beforehand.
Then on the 11th through 13th of this month—Sunday through Tuesday—customers came from the Kanto region ostensibly to visit during Obon holidays:
S-aitama Prefecture on the 11th (with appointment), K-anagawa Prefecture on the 12th (no appointment), and T-okyo on the 13th (with appointment).
Fortunately none of them overlapped, and each job was the type we wouldn't refuse and involved difficult, time-consuming work anyway.
And it's not just this time—I often end up asking customers coming from far away,
"Don't you have a bike shop nearby?"
The right end's threads are already stripped,
so I don't need to worry about reusing it.
I ground away the side
to create a flat gripping surface in the vise.
With the right end held in the vise this way
and an Allen key on the left end,
I tried to loosen it, but...
The right end snapped off.
With no choice, I move on to rougher methods.
The drill screams!
I ground away the flange on the left end.
I don't need to worry about reusing the hub axle, but
↑this ball race adjustment lock nut
needs to be recovered in good condition.
We had hub axles and left ends in stock,
but the customer already had both,
so we used theirs, cleaned the hub interior,
greased it up, and reassembled.
The customer was watching, so I didn't take photos,
but the front wheel needed just a tiny bit of truing and came out perfectly centered,
and the rear wheel had a slight rightward drift that seemed to be from years of use—I corrected just that.
↑replaced parts
Since I had the chance,
I asked to borrow this wheel for another matter
and got some photos of the valve area.
The butyl tube in the tire on this wheel—normally you don't insert the valve from the inner circumference side,
but when I tried it, the valve passed through the valve bush (the second generation, incidentally) quite smoothly.
But with a Tni (TPU tube),
it won't pass at all because the diameter itself has a positive tolerance, and the valve core's threading area bulges outward below it.