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When everyone so casually throws around sentences like "Turn the barrel clockwise..." what do they mean? Should I look at the shifter mech along the barrel, my face is at the center of the bike, looking at the handlegrips, and I need to see the barrel adjuster as a clock, and turn it clockwise?
Generally it would be when you're turning something
into something else viewing from the top of the bolt/nut/barrel adjuster, is what clockwise and counterclockwise refer to. I have seen exceptions with in-line cable adjusters which can go either direction depending on the mfr. If you're talking about a derailleur in particular that would be turning the barrel adjuster
into the derailleur
clockwise-Turn it
counter-clockwise to
unscrew it outwards. Common, of course, is clockwise threading but one side of Bottom Brackets and Pedals can have
reverse or
counterclockwise threading