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Re: show yer calipers
« Reply #20 on: June 11, 2014, 03:15:00 pm »
the good things i learned: 

-headlight restoration kit will work well on the plastic lens (500 grit; 800 grit; rubbing compound)
-throttle body cleaner is the only thing that dissolved 20 years of crud on the gear strip
-dental pick removes stuck metal shavings which you cannot see, from the gear strip (fixed my return to zero problem).

the bad things:

-the screws will not come out no way - no how on mine, without stripping the heads or breaking the screwdriver.
-the two screws on the top of the caliper, next to the lock, control the tension between the gears.  (one of these screws was loose).
-the throttle body cleaner can and will seep below the lens (dial side) and render it permanently cloudy.

-joe




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