cleaning

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:46:12 +0100, "phenian"
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I have the Haynes Bike Book, which says about removing the
sprocket 'take the opportunity to clean the cassette
thoroughly, then flush the body through with solvent. Then
oil with heavy mineral oil through the gap....' What kind
of solvent would you use and what kind of oil?

Never done that - I wonder what they mean? The freehub body?
If so I'd prolly use my usual citrus solvent and Shimano
slippery spit.

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In article <[email hidden]>, phenian

Quoted message said:

I have the Haynes Bike Book, which says about removing the
sprocket 'take the opportunity to clean the cassette
thoroughly, then flush the body through with solvent. Then
oil with heavy mineral oil through the gap....'

Quoted message said:

What kind of solvent would you use and what kind of oil?

Acetone.

SAE 30.

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phenian said:

I have the Haynes Bike Book, which says about removing the
sprocket 'take the opportunity to clean the cassette
thoroughly, then flush the body through with solvent. Then
oil with heavy mineral oil through the gap....'

That doesn't make any sense.

Quoted message said:

What kind of solvent would you use and what kind of oil?

None and none until I knew what I was working on. I suggest
using the Haynes book for toilet paper and referring to the
following websites intead:

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~PB

"Pete Biggs" wrote...

Quoted message said:

phenian said:

I have the Haynes Bike Book, which says about removing
the sprocket 'take the opportunity to clean the cassette
thoroughly, then flush the body through with solvent.
Then oil with heavy mineral oil through the gap....'

That doesn't make any sense.

Actually it sounds a lot like instructions for cleaning a
freewheel, not a cassette (remember those?).
--
mark

mark said:

"Pete Biggs" wrote...

Quoted message said:

phenian said:

I have the Haynes Bike Book, which says about removing
the sprocket 'take the opportunity to clean the cassette
thoroughly, then flush the body through with solvent.
Then oil with heavy mineral oil through the gap....'

That doesn't make any sense.

Actually it sounds a lot like instructions for cleaning a
freewheel, not a cassette (remember those?).

It does a bit but they don't have a "cassette" (set of
_splined_ sprockets). They might mean freewheel or sprockets
but they're causing confusion.

Anyway, is it a good idea to regularly flush and oil a
freewheel like that?

~PB

Pete Biggs said:

Anyway, is it a good idea to regularly flush and oil a
freewheel like that?

Well, the insides do crud up a bit. But on the whole I'd shy
away from "heavy mineral oil" because you don't want
anything that's going to form a thick enough gloop to glue
the pawls down.

"Pete Biggs" wrote

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Anyway, is it a good idea to regularly flush and oil a
freewheel like that?

~PB

ISTR folllowing a similar procedure, using Phil Wood
Tenacious Oil. It seemed to get a fair bit of crud out of
the freewheel, and I don't recall any ill effects.
--
mark

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In article <[email hidden]>, phenian <ph3n1an-conevert-

Quoted message said:

I have the Haynes Bike Book, which says about removing
the sprocket 'take the opportunity to clean the cassette
thoroughly, then flush the body through with solvent.
Then oil with heavy mineral oil through the gap....'

Quoted message said:

What kind of solvent would you use and what kind of oil?

Acetone.

Actually acetone is pretty rubbish as a solvent for oil,
it's more useful for nail varnish and paint. For oil you
need something like petrol, diesel or Gunk (tm). Simon M.

Simon Mason said:

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In article <[email hidden]>, phenian

Quoted message said:

I have the Haynes Bike Book, which says about removing
the sprocket 'take the opportunity to clean the cassette
thoroughly, then flush the body through with solvent.
Then oil with heavy mineral oil through the gap....'

Quoted message said:

What kind of solvent would you use and what kind of oil?

Acetone.

Actually acetone is pretty rubbish as a solvent for oil,
it's more useful for nail varnish and paint. For oil you
need something like petrol, diesel or Gunk (tm). Simon M.

I use Diesel, cheap and easy to get, from my fuel tank.

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In article <[email hidden]>, phenian

Quoted message said:

I have the Haynes Bike Book, which says about removing
the sprocket 'take the opportunity to clean the
cassette thoroughly, then flush the body through with
solvent. Then oil with heavy mineral oil through the
gap....'

Quoted message said:

What kind of solvent would you use and what kind
of oil?

Acetone.

Actually acetone is pretty rubbish as a solvent for oil,
it's more useful for nail varnish and paint. For oil you
need something like petrol, diesel or Gunk (tm).

I prefer parafin.

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Quoted post said:

Originally posted by Phenian
I have the Haynes Bike Book, which says about removing the
sprocket 'take the opportunity to clean the cassette
thoroughly, then flush the body through with solvent. Then
oil with heavy mineral oil through the gap....'

What kind of solvent would you use and what kind of oil?

cheers

cleaning can be simplyfied by using an active fluid system fom scottoiler http://www.scottoiler.com/active.asp
the special oil is watersoluble allowing you to clean easily with water
here is a couple of review links - http://www.kinetics.org.uk/cgi-bin/criticalreviews.pl?showreview=Scott and http://www.bikemagic.com/review/reviewproduct/mps/RPN/15502/v/1/sp/