dinged chain ring

* gabrielle <[email hidden]>:

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While I was troubleshooting my RD, I noticed my chain was making a click &
a jump at a certain point on my middle chain ring. Upon closer
examination, I discovered one of the teeth is bent out of plane with the
rest of the ring.

Take it off & hammer it, or buy a new one? 🙂

gabrielle, really in the mood for using a hammer.

Been there done that. Bent a tooth on a rock that I didn't quite clear
as smoothly as I hoped one day and had the same problem you know have.

Being unemployed for the summers at that time I took a pair of vise
grips and gently tweaked the tooth back into place. Worked like a charm.
The key word though is gently.

Jason

"gabrielle" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

While I was troubleshooting my RD, I noticed my chain was making a click &
a jump at a certain point on my middle chain ring. Upon closer
examination, I discovered one of the teeth is bent out of plane with the
rest of the ring.

Take it off & hammer it, or buy a new one? 🙂

gabrielle, really in the mood for using a hammer.

Hammer it. Or better yet take a small crescent wrench, tighten it over the
tooth, and bend back straight.

Greg

gabrielle said:

While I was troubleshooting my RD, I noticed my chain was making a
click & a jump at a certain point on my middle chain ring. Upon
closer examination, I discovered one of the teeth is bent out of
plane with the rest of the ring.

Take it off & hammer it, or buy a new one? 🙂

gabrielle, really in the mood for using a hammer.

buy a new one, simple allen wrench job

gabrielle said:

While I was troubleshooting my RD, I noticed my chain was making a click &
a jump at a certain point on my middle chain ring. Upon closer
examination, I discovered one of the teeth is bent out of plane with the
rest of the ring.

Take it off & hammer it, or buy a new one? 🙂

gabrielle, really in the mood for using a hammer.

Ack! The last time I took a wrench to bent teeth, it came right off the
ring. This was on a Race Face big ring last week right before my race.
Had to go searching the world for a 44 4-bolt and finally got an LBS
to pull a Bontcrapper off a Trek.

Get a new one!

--
o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o
www.schnauzers.ws

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* gabrielle <[email hidden]>:

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While I was troubleshooting my RD, I noticed my chain was making a click

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a jump at a certain point on my middle chain ring. Upon closer
examination, I discovered one of the teeth is bent out of plane with the
rest of the ring.

Take it off & hammer it, or buy a new one? 🙂

gabrielle, really in the mood for using a hammer.

Been there done that. Bent a tooth on a rock that I didn't quite clear
as smoothly as I hoped one day and had the same problem you know have.

Being unemployed for the summers at that time I took a pair of vise
grips and gently tweaked the tooth back into place. Worked like a charm.
The key word though is gently.

Jason

Had a rock bounce up and bend my big ring at 90 deg, about right at the bolt
circle. Fixed that with a FBH (AKA 'twatting stick'😉 on a flat slab of
stone, finishing off with a vice, pliers and mole grips. Rode it until it
wore out as usual - zero problems. Then again though, I'm an
impro-fix-it-up-genius, so it wouldn't work for anyone else.

Shaun aRe

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* gabrielle <[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

While I was troubleshooting my RD, I noticed my chain was making a
click

&

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

a jump at a certain point on my middle chain ring. Upon closer
examination, I discovered one of the teeth is bent out of plane with
the
rest of the ring.

Take it off & hammer it, or buy a new one? 🙂

gabrielle, really in the mood for using a hammer.

Been there done that. Bent a tooth on a rock that I didn't quite clear
as smoothly as I hoped one day and had the same problem you know have.

Being unemployed for the summers at that time I took a pair of vise
grips and gently tweaked the tooth back into place. Worked like a charm.
The key word though is gently.

Jason

Had a rock bounce up and bend my big ring at 90 deg, about right at the
bolt
circle. Fixed that with a FBH (AKA 'twatting stick'😉 on a flat slab of
stone, finishing off with a vice, pliers and mole grips. Rode it until it
wore out as usual - zero problems. Then again though, I'm an
impro-fix-it-up-genius, so it wouldn't work for anyone else.

Shaun aRe

I am assuming that it is an aluminum chain ring, if so it will most likely
break when you try to bending it back.

I have ridden around on chainrings missing teeth for months...until I felt
like fixing it. A bent tooth would be more probelmatic. I would try to
straighten it and if it broke would look around for a cheap replacement. I
usually replace my broken XT chainrings with LX stuff as it is cheaper and I
can not tell the difference; but then again, I can't tell when I am missing
a tooth on the ring!

gabrielle said:

While I was troubleshooting my RD, I noticed my chain was making a click &
a jump at a certain point on my middle chain ring. Upon closer
examination, I discovered one of the teeth is bent out of plane with the
rest of the ring.

Take it off & hammer it, or buy a new one? 🙂

gabrielle, really in the mood for using a hammer.

Crescent wrench, slowly bend it back.

JD

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* gabrielle <[email hidden]>:
> While I was troubleshooting my RD, I noticed my chain was making a
> click

&

Quoted message said:

> a jump at a certain point on my middle chain ring. Upon closer
> examination, I discovered one of the teeth is bent out of plane
> with the
> rest of the ring.
>
> Take it off & hammer it, or buy a new one? 🙂
>
> gabrielle, really in the mood for using a hammer.

Been there done that. Bent a tooth on a rock that I didn't quite
clear as smoothly as I hoped one day and had the same problem you
know have. Being unemployed for the summers at that time I took a pair
of vise
grips and gently tweaked the tooth back into place. Worked like a
charm. The key word though is gently.

Jason

Had a rock bounce up and bend my big ring at 90 deg, about right at
the bolt
circle. Fixed that with a FBH (AKA 'twatting stick'😉 on a flat slab
of stone, finishing off with a vice, pliers and mole grips. Rode it
until it wore out as usual - zero problems. Then again though, I'm an
impro-fix-it-up-genius, so it wouldn't work for anyone else.

Shaun aRe

I am assuming that it is an aluminum chain ring, if so it will most
likely break when you try to bending it back.

I bet you it won't. Now if it were glass...

--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

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While I was troubleshooting my RD, I noticed my chain was making a click &
a jump at a certain point on my middle chain ring. Upon closer
examination, I discovered one of the teeth is bent out of plane with the
rest of the ring.

Take it off & hammer it, or buy a new one? 🙂

gabrielle, really in the mood for using a hammer.

Hammer it. Or better yet take a small crescent wrench, tighten it over the
tooth, and bend back straight.

Greg

That's what I do too. If ya wanna be real tight sphinctered about it,
you can use a file to clean up the inevitable gouges.

Shawn

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* gabrielle <[email hidden]>:
> While I was troubleshooting my RD, I noticed my chain was making a
> click

&

Quoted message said:

> a jump at a certain point on my middle chain ring. Upon closer
> examination, I discovered one of the teeth is bent out of plane with
> the
> rest of the ring.
>
> Take it off & hammer it, or buy a new one? 🙂
>
> gabrielle, really in the mood for using a hammer.

Been there done that. Bent a tooth on a rock that I didn't quite clear
as smoothly as I hoped one day and had the same problem you know have.

Being unemployed for the summers at that time I took a pair of vise
grips and gently tweaked the tooth back into place. Worked like a

charm.

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Quoted message said:

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The key word though is gently.

Jason

Had a rock bounce up and bend my big ring at 90 deg, about right at the
bolt
circle. Fixed that with a FBH (AKA 'twatting stick'😉 on a flat slab of
stone, finishing off with a vice, pliers and mole grips. Rode it until

it

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wore out as usual - zero problems. Then again though, I'm an
impro-fix-it-up-genius, so it wouldn't work for anyone else.

Shaun aRe

I am assuming that it is an aluminum chain ring, if so it will most likely
break when you try to bending it back.

Mine was an Alu chain ring. It bent back from *90* deg.. It stayed
functioning until the teeth wore out. However, see above about me being a
genius, heheheh...

Shaun aRe

Show me I use to live in MO the show me state. Then I'll
tell you what I rec.