>From: Sheldon Brown
[email protected]
>| If you only know Mussorgski's Pictures at an Exhibition
>| | from the Ravel or Stokowski "colorized" versions,
>| (with | orchestra) seek out the original piano solo
>| version. | I think it is much superior!
Oh, yes, it's delightful! The orchestra is never as flexible
as the soloist. I love the nuances of the piano versions I
have heard. The orchestra tends to plod and shout.
Also, look for various artist's interpretations of The Gates
of Kiev, and the other pictures referred to. I believe all
were painted after Mussorgsky did his writing, inspired by
his music.
I prefer steel on steel, well lubricated with light oil, to
the modern plastic linings. I think SIS is designed to shift
with SIS cable of specific length at shifter and derailer.
But that's an indexing system, and so it is best not to
tinker with it.
When I worked at the Washington post nights slipping the ad
packets into the paper, we'd lose conveyor belting nightly.
Sproing! It would fatigue and break. They threw a lot out
and I'd use it as cable sheathing. It was unlined inside and
out but then I never rode in the wet then.
I have a boot on my V-brakes on the cable run from the
noodle to the clamp. A similar boot would allow the weight
savings of an unsheathed cable run with the cleanliness of
the fully sheathed run.
To braze a cable end for later ease of maintenance, use a
vertical butane flame, not a lighter, but a small butane
torch. Heat the cable end and form a ball of borax flux on
the end. Heat that red holding it from above but not
directly vertical, while preheating the 1/16 inch or thinner
bronze rod, and apply the rod to the red hot cable. Just a
touch is all you need. The bronze should run down to the
cable end.
You'll find you can clip and file the end, and have a really
nicely trimmed cable, but this is only if you really like
removing the cable, cleaning it, inspecting it, oiling it,
and replacing it. With liners and clamp on cable tips, you
never have to pull the cable through the sheathing.
Yours,
Doug Goncz (
ftp://users.aol.com/DGoncz/ )
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