On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 16:03:43 -0700, notme wrote:

It's tempting to keep broken stuff with the vague hope that it might
fixable.

That's not what he said.

Fix it rather than buy a replacement. Hence no collection of "junk".

Dear NM,

Junk is often more interesting to post about than it is to fix.

Let's watch this thread and see if the original poster fixes his piece
of junk.

So far, that's what it sounds like--a commonplace piece of bicycle
equipment whose poor original design led to stripped threads and left
it a piece of junk not worth fixing.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel