That didn’t get very far
I can’t use the Trek’s chainring on the Schwinn. The first problem, which I should have noticed from the start, is the shape: the Sakae chainring and crank from the Trek uses a five-point spider, whereas the one on the Schwinn is four-point. Secondly, I’m not sure that the Sakae chainring assembly comes apart. It appears to have rivets instead of bolts holding everything together. I guess it’s going to go on ebay instead.
I was able to get the cranks off the Trek, but it took a good number more tools. I needed a 14mm deep socket in order to get the bolts off. The socket set I currently have uses a 1/4? drive, and the largest metric 1/4? drive socket I was able to find anywhere is 13mm. I guess this is because the socket size has to be somewhere in the neighborhood of the size of the ratcheting part of the handle, but it was pretty annoying to need a size just outside of my range. I got that socket, a 3/8? drive handle, and while I was at it, I got a 22mm socket for the crank extractor since I was unable to find an appropriately sized wrench outside of a set. The socket works since I really only need it to get the nut part of the extractor into the crank.
The crank extractor seems kind of goofy, and apparently new cranks don’t need them anymore. With slightly older bicycles, like the Trek, you start things off by removing that 14mm bolt, but that’s not all. After that you need to screw the nut part of the crank extractor in and then screw the handle inside of that and keep pushing until everything pops off. Now that that’s over, I have a small pile of tools I probably won’t use again, one of which is pretty specialized. On the other hand, if anyone out there needs some bicycle work done, I can probably help you out. As for the Schwinn, I guess I’ll just live with it for now. I haven’t had any trouble while in the big chainring, so it’s probably not a big deal.
As for the current water situation, it’s escalated from “DON’T USE ANY WATER EVERYBODY PANIC” to “IF YOUR PRESSURE DROPS THE WATER CAN KILL YOU EVERYBODY PANIC.” Atlanta water had to call a utility locating company (in other news, there are companies you can call to find misplaced utilities) since they couldn’t figure out where the valve north of the broken valve is. I hope they had to dig through someone’s living room to get to it. The AJC says that they’ve found the upstream valve, though they don’t say where it was, but pressure dropped so bacteria something. News also said that the water being pumped upstream from the Moores Mill station might be “murky and discolored” but safe to drink since “water hates going upstream.” That totally explains everything. I’ve been drinking my hoarded water but still flushing and showering and everything else by the usual means, and I haven’t seen any drop in pressure. I hope this all gets worked out soon. Seeing Chick-fil-a closed on not-Sunday isn’t an experience I’d to repeat.