Took out the bar end weights!

[nurse]

Why? I hear u ask? .....erm just because!  My word am I glad I did though!  The right hand side was fine, came out looked clean, nothing sinister inside so I put it all back.  Then repeated on the left. Yuk what can only be described as a wet, brown, diarrhoea like substance started to run out from inside the tube

Somehow water must have got inside and gradually turned into rust soup as it couldn't then dry. No idea how it got there coz I can't find any obvious way in there.

So after 45mins of cleaning out the inside (another of the kids toothbrushes ruined) I gave a protective spray of wd-40 and put it back together.  

[fj11.5]

ummmm yummmy  , never seen that happen before, knw the weights can rust on but thats crazy ,