Sadly neither of us were packing a hanger tool, but spying his old 10mm QR wheels I remembered the hack of threading the wheel on to the hanger and using that to gauge and straighten the hanger, worked a treat
Definitely one hack to remember.Ghetto hanger alignment
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BigdummySteve
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Ghetto hanger alignment
Today I managed to bend my alternator dropout in a fairly serious manner. I was left with very few working gears and the very scary possibly of killing an expensive rear mech, while fiddling with the gears in an attempt to get some working gears a bloke on a touring bike stopped to offer help.
Sadly neither of us were packing a hanger tool, but spying his old 10mm QR wheels I remembered the hack of threading the wheel on to the hanger and using that to gauge and straighten the hanger, worked a treat Definitely one hack to remember.
Sadly neither of us were packing a hanger tool, but spying his old 10mm QR wheels I remembered the hack of threading the wheel on to the hanger and using that to gauge and straighten the hanger, worked a treat
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lune ranger
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Re: Ghetto hanger alignment
Do you need an alternator plate?BigdummySteve wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:31 am Today I managed to bend my alternator dropout in a fairly serious manner. I was left with very few working gears and the very scary possibly of killing an expensive rear mech, while fiddling with the gears in an attempt to get some working gears a bloke on a touring bike stopped to offer help.
Sadly neither of us were packing a hanger tool, but spying his old 10mm QR wheels I remembered the hack of threading the wheel on to the hanger and using that to gauge and straighten the hanger, worked a treat
I have a RH derailleur 135mm QR one for steel frames I could sell you for less than a new one.
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Re: Ghetto hanger alignment
I keep an old axle in the bike toolbox for exactly this purpose.