thing and guess
Bazyle | 12/03/2018 21:41:01 |
![]() 6956 forum posts 229 photos | Couple of what is it? size is about 2 inches across the V. |
Old School | 12/03/2018 21:43:47 |
426 forum posts 40 photos | It's to take the slack out of stretched brake cables etc |
roy entwistle | 12/03/2018 21:44:59 |
1716 forum posts | It's a brake adjuster for cable brakes on older cars Roy |
Bazyle | 12/03/2018 21:48:18 |
![]() 6956 forum posts 229 photos | You're too quick off the mark! Number 2 photo a bit cluttered but it is clamped onto a bit of wood in the vice instead of a thin bench. There is a lever on the front to clamp the thin horizontal jaws together. |
Martin King 2 | 12/03/2018 21:53:04 |
![]() 1129 forum posts 1 photos | Saw setting vice Martin |
Bazyle | 12/03/2018 22:11:37 |
![]() 6956 forum posts 229 photos | You guys are too good. Next time I;m only giving part of the picture. |
George Clarihew | 13/03/2018 21:06:10 |
80 forum posts | The answer for all unidentified object question has to be " its a thing for thinging things " |
Gordon W | 14/03/2018 09:42:43 |
2011 forum posts | I think the brake adjuster used to called "a squirrel". Might well be wrong. |
Kenneth Deighton | 14/03/2018 19:38:12 |
69 forum posts | In my younger days working on cars with cable brakes we called them butterflies, unfortunately they are now illegal to use them on vintage cars. Ken. |
Brian Lamb | 15/03/2018 22:05:16 |
2 forum posts | Aren't the brake cable adjusters still o.k. on handbrakes? I'm sure there's one on my M.G. |
Kenneth Deighton | 16/03/2018 10:53:49 |
69 forum posts | Hello Brian, the only way that you can be sure is to have your MG tested or speak to an M.O.T tester, we accepted them in my day as a tester. |
Bramhp | 21/03/2018 22:30:47 |
4 forum posts | Hi Brian, yes adjusters are allowed. MOT testing guide section 5.3 mechanical brake components. Information section “It is acceptable to fit cable expanders to reduce maladjustment.” Although it doesn’t mention in the current guide I’m pretty sure that the older guide used to say “no more than one adjuster fitted per cable”
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