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Cheater shine! -won’t last!

This ol’ guy was pretty crusty still.

Spiffy shower in WD-40: hit all the cables, brakes, cracks and crevices

Taking off the crank, that nut was on there pretty good; I had some marvel mystery oil within arm’s length: I gave it a quick splash and wow! Came right off….
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Ulu said:
I didn’t read through this whole thread yet but I had to say, welcome to the fake Schwinn club brother.

Mine was a mountain bike, but otherwise it was a universal Asian bicycle.
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Ha-Ha!!!! 100% !!!! I was looking at that kabuki bike and pulling the wheels off and I’m like……. Uh, that looks like the “Schwinn” I’m working on!!!!!!
 
It's coming along nicely!

I tried using those style brake levers on upright bars before, they never worked well enough to have decent brakes. You're probably going to have to scrounge up a pair of standard levers.
 
Wildcat said:
It's coming along nicely!

I tried using those style brake levers on upright bars before, they never worked well enough to have decent brakes. You're probably going to have to scrounge up a pair of standard levers.
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Thanks!!!!!! I’m going to put a closed end of a wrench on there and see if I can bend them out a smidge. We see; I definitely have some levers around here…..
 
Jude Ephesus said:
Also, I’d like to put a dork disc on this thing. Does anyone know by looking: can I get this thing’s cassette off without a locking tool and a chain whip? I got neither!!!!!!!!
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I know you swapped wheels already, but did you try to take off that spring ring?
 
SwissGuy said:
I know you swapped wheels already, but did you try to take off that spring ring?
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Thanks! -I didn’t. I watched a couple of YouTube videos and the job looks pretty easy. I went 1 step further, and looked to buy the part and a chain whip…. I found what LOOKED like a fit, at a pretty fair price, it included both the lock-nut and the chain whip, but was not 100% sure The nut had the right notches in it to fit properly.

https://www.amazon.com/Oumers-Lockr...ocphy=9005111&hvtargid=pla-511360255647&psc=1
in the end, it’s not a huge job, I just didn’t want to spend the money or wait until next week for a part that may or may not work.
 
Wildcat said:
It's coming along nicely!

I tried using those style brake levers on upright bars before, they never worked well enough to have decent brakes. You're probably going to have to scrounge up a pair of standard levers.
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I was packing up my outdoor shop and saw these on my workbench: I’ll dunk them in vinegar and if they clean up good, I’ll just throw them on and not mess with bending the other levers
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I made a little progress this week;

I got my brake levers cleaned up and my crank hardware spiffed up.

My seat hardware was also a little crusty, so, scrubbed that up.

The holes in the brake levers are not the same as the existing levers: I may have to swap out the cable housings or do some customization to get the existing housings to work
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