I've hosed it down with WD already and it's sitting in a bucket of paint thinner now. I don't have access to a parts washer, but I assume that it would circulate better than my bucket of paint thinner.
If the innards are plastic that should bode well to cleaning it up, I would think. But I guess we'll see. On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:40 PM, cyclotour...@gmail.com <cyclotour...@gmail.com> wrote: > Remove them from the bike and hose them down with WD-40 or put in a parts > washer if you have one. > I had tremendous good results with doing that on Ultegra brifters. Simpler > bar-ends should clean up great! > > > On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 10:18:38 AM UTC-8, Jim Bronson wrote: >> >> OK, I sweat a lot when it's hot and I live in Austin, Texas so it gets >> really hot. Got a bar end that's gummed up with sweat by-products. >> >> Is there any way to disassemble the indexing mechanism? I can only >> use 7 gears and then it won't go any further. I've had it soaking in >> a bucket of paint thinner for a couple of days hoping that whatever >> grime was in there would be loosened up, but so far no luck. FWIW, I >> don't get a full range of motion when I switch it to friction, either. >> >> Or should I just look for some new Shimano downtube shifters to mount >> onto the existing pods? >> >> I haven't used this shifter in a while because I was going to ride a >> 1000K in October and discovered last minute that I was not able to get >> into the two highest gears, so I threw a Microshift bar end in there >> that I had sitting around. But I would like to be able to use the >> Shimano shifter, if not in my Riv, then maybe somewhere else where I >> wouldn't sweat on it so much. >> >> In case you were wondering...the Microshift has worked great but it's >> not quite as precise as the Shimano, i.e., there is more slop in each >> gear detent. Sometimes you have to lightly press down on the lever to >> quiet the drivetrain. Not so much pressure that you shift into the >> next gear up, just enough so it sits against the detent. >> >> >> >> -- >> Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
