Reply to "Fixing a broken tang"

mikesandfordMember

I like your very easy to implement wire, Pete. I will now recommend it to those I issue new counters to. In fact it is something that might be worth adding to the JR counter instruction as an alternative to the push on extension to the tag.

I have had a few measurers experience bending after using the push on extension. It is a weakness in the JR design, and I usually have to fend off their claims that the design is too flimsy.

Up to now I have been recommending a brass "bodge" which I made for a wheel with a dynamo hub where the radius of the spoke attachment was too great to be satisfactorily reached with a push on extension. I am sure that your wire idea would have worked well, however I am very happy also with my solution:

I got two brass bracket pieces from the hardware shop; cut the slot with tin snips, and bolted around the spokes. The tag of the JR fits very neatly into the slot and so there is no bending.

11/2/124:22 AM

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