Solarbird 
hey, there’s a bike chain under all that rust!
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i’ve put it in denatured alcohol for degreasing and actual cleaning. not sure how long tho’? it’s a lot cleaner already, rust aside.
WHAT’VE WE LEARNED TODAY SOLARBIRD?
don’t put your glass full of evaporust and metal into the ultrasonic
technically learned this yesterday BUT it’s important
LIKE THE XENOMORPH HAS A SECOND SET OF TEETH
THIS THING HAS A SECOND SET OF SPLINES
AND THESE ACT LIKE A FREEWHEEL
holy shit
i also figured out how to get the axle out after only incurring minor and inconsequential damage
however, that just kind of leaves you with a bunch of free bearings and some of them want to go on walkabout so i had to put it back
on the good side the bearings actually look okay? and once i disassembled it as much as i did it suddenly felt better so the bad bearings part is at least _partially_ external components i can try to fix
Marcus Baynes-Rock@moira Have you heard of fridge-suck? It's a universal law that compels ball bearings to roll directly underneath fridges
@hyenachow ah, no, i have not, but
it seems exactly the sort of law one might expect