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A little progress -
A job which I wasn't looking forward to has proved easier than I expected.
The Sturmey FM hub I'm intending to use had an obsolete type of quick release on its connection between the little toggle chain going into the hub and the cable - I have converted it to take the modern screw on adjuster. This involved removing the tiny rivet at the end of the chain and replacing it and I was worried that because it is so tiny this might present problems.
In the event I just filed the head off the rivet, pushed it out using a pointed bradawl and replaced it with a small nail which needed slight filing to get it through the chain. In the end it can't have taken much more than ten minutes.
The first pic shows the connector as it was, the second as it is now.
Incidentally the slightly unusual looking sprocket has the old 12 spline fitting.
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