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Subject: RE: repost mirror problem

Author: Kevin Hamann

Date: Jan 9, 2003, 5:51 AM

Post ID: 1711694956


loopframe wrote:
 I posted this last week and I believe it either stumped all of the the
great tech help on the list or my mail program lost this one too: It'
it's not repairable does anyone know where I can find one round bar end
mirror.

Michael Behn wrote:

 Sometimes I just can't believe my own luck. Moving the Ambo yesterday
in the garage and the right bar end mirror fell off. I've been turning
the mirror ever so often to tighten it up but it got to lose this
time. there is a small screw coming out of the back of it which screws
into the bar attached to the end of the handle bar but I don't see any
way of holding the screw or tightening it up more then I was doing
before. Does any one have any ideas on how to remove the mirror so I
can get to the head of the screw. Or do I need to just replace it. Any
ideas will help.
mike
denver, co
71 ambo

Bar end mirrors are held on via a compression fit inside the bar. The
older ones, like the Albert mirrors, which I don't know if you have, had
"strips" of metal that were spread apart by the nut inside them as the
outer bolt was tightened. So, the more you tighten the outer bolt, the
more pressure is exerted against the inside of the handlebar. The
rectangular Napoleon mirrors have an edged cap nut that rests on a
rubber plug that balloons out as the outer bolt is tightened. Pull
outward on the mirror itself to get some resistance inside the bar while
you're tightening the bolt to get it started. When I broke an Albert
barend about 7 years ago I wasn't able to find a replacement, so I had a
piece of mirror cut to fit it. I then found out the original was
slightly concave so I had a different field of view between two mirrors.

Kevin

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