Day of maintenance and need to get this off my chest before I throw the bloody thing in the lake.

3 rounded chainring bolts, **** cheese based shit, now cant remove 30t narrow wide as threads in recess and nothing to grip.

Cassette is stuck solid, will not budge a **** inch.

Superstar hubs are a **** **** to service, drift out my arse, nothing to grip against no matter how hard you push the inner sleeve down.

I suppose the only positive is I cant commence the extender 40t installation and **** that up as I have no chainring and a stuck old cassette.

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Chainring bolts: http://www.amazon.co.uk/TruVativ-Steel-Chainring-Bolt-Set/dp/B001GSQO3W

Steel, black, with spacer, no silly tool…

Steel bolts are your friend..

Would be if I could get the shite Cheddar ones off.

Rear hub bearings out, now to **** up the installation of the new one.

This is why I love my lbs. They do the swearing on my behalf 8)

You can drill the chainring bolt heads off to get them out with a suitably large drill bit. For the bearings, a bigger hammer so you can pound the wheel to destruction.

If you’re really struggling with it chap, feel free to bring it over with a cider or two!

Cheers mate, I’ve put the thing away for today 😥

Did the rear bearings, front are a pig.

Cassette is stuck like nothing I have ever encountered, broke my chain whip in my attempts to free it. I purposely dont over tightenistumped.dm stumped.

The rounded chainring bolts are still, erm, rounded.

Tommorows ride is poatponed

So the cassette lock ring just wont give? On the front there is a little sleeve between the pair of bearings that you need to push to one end before you have enough of a lip to hammer the other one out.

Yep, stuck solid, tried boiling water, old seatpost over a spanner for extra leverage. Lest it with some gt85 soaking in overnight and will try tomorrow.

I know whag you mean on the hub, rear had plenty of float to create a lip on the bearing, front barely moves.

Mike, appreciate the offer of help, with which aspect of my mechanical fuckwittery can you help? 😀

Hammer a torx bit into the chairing bolts. The hammering helps break the stickiness and the torx bit should bite enough to turn.

Tried it, these must be made of a special, extra soft cheese 🙂

Also tried a flat head, same result 😈

Loving the use of ‘fuckwittery’.
Every day’s a school day on here.