What is this from?

[The History Man]

I once had a job at Gloucester services cleaning cars ‘while you wait’.



I was an M5 washer.

 

[Hotwheels.]

I once had a job at Gloucester services cleaning cars ‘while you wait’.



I was an M5 washer.

Dirk!

 

[ishaw]

I was asking what it's from, not what it is.
Stunning insight though

I think the point being made here was simply it's just a plain old washer so unlikely to be something that would render anything unusable without it as it's just a big standard looking washer.

 

[Tsundere]

I think the point being made here was simply it's just a plain old washer so unlikely to be something that would render anything unusable without it as it's just a big standard looking washer.

It's not a plain washer though, it's shaped in a very particular way, it's probably convex for a reason.

It pinged off a part I was dismantling, which suggests there was a spring involved.

I'm just asking if anyone knows what early MTB components used a convex M5 washer, so I can reunite it with its host.

 

[The History Man]

or it may have been distorted in use. Reminds me of a brake pad washer for aligning with rim

 

[Tootyred]

Im going with (like above) cable clamp washer that was over tightened.....and possibly too big for its application!

But tbh, if i worried about all the bearing, washers, screw, nuts and bolts I sweep off the workshop floor, I would never sleep.

The question should be "is everything working"....if so don't worry. If you think its off something you may not have used yet or its special....put it in a bakky tin, wait 10 years...then throw it out.

 

[legrandefromage]

A wongularl.

Never seen one?

Me neither but that's how one was described to me late one night, in the gents toilets at the local pub

Hang on...

<experience flashback >

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dface]

First thing I’d do is disassemble all bikes in the building and see if anything is missing.

 

[bikeworkshop]

First thing I’d do is disassemble all bikes in the building and see if anything is missing.

Just make sure you don't drop anything

 

[The History Man]

"It's a ticklish sort of job making a thing for a thing-ummy-bob,
Especially when you don't know what it's for.
But it's the girl that makes the thing that drills the hole that holds the ring
That makes the thing-ummy-bob that makes the engines roar.
And it's the girl that makes the thing that holds the oil that oils the ring
That makes the thing-ummy-bob that's going win the war.