Suntour Barcons: maintenance and adjustment
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But really, most any wide-blade screwdriver can work. If the shaft of the bolt intrudes, preventing the screwdriver from staying seated in the slot, you can make a custom tool by filing or grinding a slight recess in the center of the blade, leaving just enough unmolested on either side of the recess.
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Here's a somewhat cartoonish and technically incorrect drawing, advertising some brand I never heard of, but I think it gets the idea across.
You can buy them already hollow-ground, but I just grind my own, on a bench grinder or on the contact wheels of the belt-sander. Don't heat-blue them — grind lightly with frequent dunks in water. Usually takes under a minute.
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I haven't seen any YT ads since I started using Brave as my browser. It's based on Chromium, which is open-source I believe? So it's similar to Chrome, but not made by Google. Its main claim to fame is that it's more security- and privacy-oriented, they don't sell your eyeballs like Google does.
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I don't know how it blocks YT ads, they don't seem to advertize that as a feature, but it's a nice bonus. YT has not retaliated against me in any way. Maybe they'll find a way around the ad blocking, but so far so nice.
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Looks like you had all the YouTube’s and diagrams available, but a trick I picked up was phone pictures.
take off a part, snap a picture, repeat.
then you have a photographic record of all your steps.
sometimes, If I’m really nervous I take two pictures per step, with the part on the assembly, and then again off the assembly.
it’s worked great for motorcycle carburetors.
take off a part, snap a picture, repeat.
then you have a photographic record of all your steps.
sometimes, If I’m really nervous I take two pictures per step, with the part on the assembly, and then again off the assembly.
it’s worked great for motorcycle carburetors.