Bill, My curious quotient has peaked. Tomorrow on my day off I'm going to disassemble the shifter. I'll take pics and share.
~Hugh “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein http://velocipeedemusings.com/ On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Bill Lindsay <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, well the offer still stands. If you want to mail the shifter to me to > confirm it's busted, I'm willing to look at it for you. If you are > convinced it's broken and want to throw it out, no problems. If there > really are clicks in the middle that have just vanished, I'm sure it's > busted. I've never seen that particular failure mode, so I'd be grateful > if you'd let me inspect it. If that's really what it's doing, I'm 100% > certain that it cannot be repaired, but I'd like to see it for myself. > > On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 10:53:29 AM UTC-7, Hugh Smitham wrote: >> >> Sorry. Yes looked at the wrong number. It's compatible with >> RD-7700 & RD-7400 derailleurs. >> >> Model SL BS77. >> >> >> >> ~Hugh >> >> “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep >> moving.” ― Albert Einstein >> >> http://velocipeedemusings.com/ >> >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Bill Lindsay <tape...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 10:35:55 AM UTC-7, Hugh Smitham wrote: >>>> >>>> Bill, >>>> >>>> 1. RD 7700 9 & 8 speed. >>>> >>> >>> RD7700 is a rear derailer model, not a shiftlever model. Maybe you have >>> the BS77 shifters? >>> >>> When you say 9 & 8 speed, what do you mean. Are you referring to the >>> fact that the BS77 shifters are intended to be compatible with an RD7700 >>> rear derailer in a nine speed application, or an RD7400 rear derailer in an >>> eight speed application? Or are you referring to the RD7700 derailer being >>> applicable for both 8sp and 9sp setups? Or are you saying you do cassette >>> swaps or wheel swaps and use both 8sp and 9sp cassettes on this bike with >>> the same rear der and shifters? >>> >>> >>>> 2. Middle of the range skips two clicks. >>>> >>> >>> OK so you are in the smallest cog. Lets call that position 9. You >>> click from position 9 to 8, and the derailer shifts. You click from 8 to >>> 7, and it works. You click from 7 to 6 and it works. Now you are in the >>> middle, and 6 to 5 is not going to work. What doesn't work? You said >>> 'skips two clicks'. You mean that the shifter has no clicks, and acts like >>> a friction shifter from 6 to 5, and continues to move like a friction >>> shifter from 5 to 4. Those two clicks are 'skipped' in the shifter. Then >>> from 4 to 3, the clicks reappear, and click properly all the way to >>> position 1. Is this what you are describing? >>> >>> Or do you mean the shifter does click from 6 to 5 and from 5 to 4, but >>> those two gears are skipping when you pedal in those gears? Is that what >>> you are describing? >>> >>> Bill Lindsay >>> El Cerrito, CA >>> >>>> >>>> Have not yet bought a new set. >>>> >>>> ~Hugh >>>> >>>> “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep >>>> moving.” ― Albert Einstein >>>> >>>> http://velocipeedemusings.com/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Bill Lindsay <tape...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Jeremy is right. >>>>> >>>>> I will add that the chrome washer piece http://www.rivbike.com/p >>>>> roduct-p/sh21space.htm is not a wear item, doesn't have anything >>>>> directly to do with indexing, and is not plastic. >>>>> >>>>> Hugh indicated to me offline that he's already ordered new shifters. >>>>> Mail the old right side shifter to me and I'll tell you whether it's shot. >>>>> If it's shot, it is not repairable. Or, maybe I will re-ask the two very >>>>> direct and explicit questions that I asked in my first response on this >>>>> thread: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 1. What model exactly is your shifter? >>>>> 2. exactly which index positions are missed? >>>>> >>>>> Bill Lindsay >>>>> El Cerrito, CA >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>>>> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to >>>>> pic/rbw-owners-bunch/Wz8uc5aFq0s/unsubscribe. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>>>> rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to >>> pic/rbw-owners-bunch/Wz8uc5aFq0s/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/rbw-owners-bunch/Wz8uc5aFq0s/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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