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The "Today I did something to my bike" thread
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Good on ya Kiddums and Mrs Kiddums:) looks like ye had great craic. Where'd ye go?
Started at my saddle tonight
Despite being meticulous in my measurements I somehow ended up with a 6mm gap up top lol. Still do not understand how. Its as if the process of peeling off the very adhesive backing of the gel pad somehow stretched and then it rebounded back 6mm shorter!? Mad Ted.
Plugged the gap with a 6mm piece of foam cut to shape and I'll sand it flush once the spray adhesive goes off properly tomo.
The tricky bit kicks off then tailoring a 3mm thick closed cell foam smoothing layer over the whole saddle before fitting the new cover.0 -
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Cork Trucker wrote: »Do you have to drill into the fender to apply push rivets?
You have a choice to fix in place with really strong 3m adhesive patches that need 12hr to cure or four rivets with a 4mm drill piece. I did both for maximum strength and less of a chance dropping off. Did a reasonable job making it nice and tidy tbh......
Fender is made by Puig and distributed by Pyramid for some reason!
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Puig Fender by Gary, on Flickr 0 -
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Dent, a sizeable enough one.
20 quid chinesium kit.
Use the hot glue gun to stick the wee pucks
And slide hammer em out.
Took the major dent out. Now left with the central dip.
Used a fair few chasing small dips and used a small nylon hammer to lower any raised peaks. Quite fun actully
Barely a ripple left.
Now I can match the paint and fill in the chips and cut them back.0 -
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Damn that's deadly!.. Gonna order one now, thank you
I usually use a sink plunger to pull of dents but this looks the business
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Cayden Defeated Thunderstorm wrote: »Damn that's deadly!.. Gonna order one now, thank you
I usually use a sink plunger to pull of dents but this looks the business
Just bought it, didn't tell the wife though :pac::D0 -
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Cayden Defeated Thunderstorm wrote: »Damn that's deadly!.. Gonna order one now, thank you
I usually use a sink plunger to pull of dents but this looks the business
No worries;)
Couple tips I learnt Mak... clean the puck, glue stick and surface with Isopropyl or brake cleaner and preheat it and the surface.
When applying the glue to the puck cover the mating surface entirely with about 5mm or so thickness of glue.
Don't press it on hard enough to bottom it out against the panel or it pops off first strike of the hammer. Let it set for 10mins.
You have to be perfectly at right angles to the puck orientation when hammering or... she pops off.
Use as big as possible a puck where feasible, especially at the start when removing the initial debth to the dent.
Drink lots of beer whilst doing this and I betcha your neighbours ask "can you do that to my car?!":)0 -
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