A bit of progress, mainly in the cleaning department. A combination of GT85, old toothbrush, cloths, cotton buds and a cheap handheld steam cleaner (from Aldi – also good for defrosting the freezer) got all the parts reasonably clean.
Great project! Miyatas are nice, and this is the best era, will follow progress.
(Just that the bottom bracket shell is probably 73mm or something really unusual? As usually 70mm would be ITA threaded with bigger diameter of the cups.)
Hi mate, I'm always on the lookout for labour-saving / performance-enhancing cleaning hacks. Do you mind me asking what exactly you use the steam cleaner for, and how? Bike rather than freezer. Cheers.
Lovely. Might consider getting the wife one for Xmas for the freezer, then I can borrow it for the bikes.I use it for blasting into crevices and hard to reach bits in derailleurs, brakes etc. The heat and pressure seems to do a good job of loosening up baked on grease etc, so a bit of GT85 and a blast of steam and the gunk comes off more easily than with solvent alone. (But I really do recommend it for freezer defrosting as well. That's the kind of life I lead .)
Aldi's one looks out of stock but you can get basically the same on Amazon. https://www.aldi.co.uk/handheld-steam-cleaner/p/717725565260600
Ouch!Lovely. Might consider getting the wife one for Xmas for the freezer, then I can borrow it for the bikes.
Lovely. Might consider getting the wife one for Xmas for the freezer, then I can borrow it for the bikes.
Think Its going to be a long, quiet and tense holiday...and so it was that 2022 became known as 'the year you got me a sodding steam machine for Christmas', when much of December 25th was overtaken by a frosty silence that not even a reasonably priced handheld steam cleaner could thaw...