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Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Dust Mite & brifter parts

Dust Mite helps me clean off all of the tiny little parts inside my completely disassembled Shimano 105 9-speed STI brifter. The idea was to document taking apart the rachet unit, but, alas, that plan went astray when I turned the shifter upside down and the thing slid greasily off the mounting post and splatted onto my desk, falling apart into a dozen random pieces.

It will be an adventure to put it all back together. Alas, I’m going to have to do that by myself because Dust Mite doesn’t have opposable thumbs, let alone fingers.

Comments


A variation of 52-card pickup?

Lynn Dobbs Fri Feb 3 14:57:03 2012

Oh Gods.

I can only hope Shimano publishes the full exploded diagram somewhere.

(Not that I’d be any better off if I ever tried to disassemble the bar-end shifters I use, but yikes that’s a lot of bits in there.)

Graydon Sat Feb 4 11:23:57 2012

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