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how`s everyone checking their chain alignment , tried using the vernier as a depth gauge but get a different result every time ! :roll:
neither MB or SR have brackets in stock ,any other stockists or accurate methods in use
never squat down when wearing spurs !!
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By eye.......................It's not let me down yet. ;)
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left or right?
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bristolmod wrote:left or right?
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joeswoonara wrote:how`s everyone checking their chain alignment , tried using the vernier as a depth gauge but get a different result every time ! :roll:
neither MB or SR have brackets in stock ,any other stockists or accurate methods in use
Vernier and flatedge I take 10 readings and average an get it to 0.10 mm infacti was lapping my rear sprocket today
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You were running round your rear sprocket?
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"By eye.......................It's not let me down yet"

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Daggs wrote:By eye.......................It's not let me down yet. ;)
How do you check the alignment by eye ?
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Start by looking at it with ya eye
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monument7 wrote:Start by looking at it with ya eye
No sh*t Sherlock ! Then what do you do ?
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