Attaching Scotoiler tube to the swingarm.

I'm currently using cable ties to attach the scotoiler oil tube to the
swingarm.

I've got some little rubber counduit 'things' that you glue to the
swingarm. What's the best glue to use? Priority is that it mustn't
damage the swing arm coating and that it must stay on but come of
fairly easily when the time comes.

Alternative is use a few big elastic bands - they will hold it nicely
but can be shifted for cleaning purposes.

We're talking about a B12 by the way.

 

Scottoiler recommend using epoxy resin or similar & cable ties, which
wipes out your "come off fairly easily" requirement. I use double-sided
foam sticky pads plus cable ties.


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When I put an oiler on my TL thou I couldn't get the plastic tube to
stick. Then I went into a model suppliers, {1}, I got some narrow
brass tube. I ran it along the bottom of the swing arm, gently bent
it to shape and it looked really neat. It took the epoxy well, too.

{1]Not the catwalk variety unfortunately.

 

That leaves double sided tape then.


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Sticky Fixers.

 

Ooh. Sounds like just the stuff to reattach the chrome trim to the
pannier on the Wing.

Halfords? 'spensive?
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I thought of another wonderful material. Sikoflex. Used to bond shite
strewth kits to chavmobiles. It never goes truly hard (a bit like a...ah
forget it and with little thinners on a rag, it's not impossible to
remove without damaging the paintwork.

If it's Sikoflexed, it's there for eternity too, unless you choose
otherwise.


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On the subject of Snottoilers, I went to buy one today for the Zed. First
shop only had the touring version (bigger reservoir and too bulky) and
wanted 105 bastard quid for it. List price everywhere else seems to be about
92.

Next shop had the normal (Version 7) which retails for around 69 quid. They
quoted 95. I said they weren't THAT fucking much so he said he could do it
for 75. I said "So you were trying to get an extra 20 quid off me then
realised it wasn't going to happen so you drop the price. Now try dropping
it to the list price of 69". He said he can probably go to that. **** both
of them, and I'll buy it on-line.


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Quick-setting Araldite will soften in boiling water and can be scraped off.
A useful property for temporary joints.

 

Yebbut how do you soak the bottom of a swingarm in boiling water
without removing it (which isn't "fairly easy")?



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A hot air gun such as can be used to soften paint will do the trick.

 

You're trying to wind him up aren't you?

 

I've used Araldite to repair exhaust systems on my RC heli's and I've yet to
have one soften with heat. And they get a damned sight hottter than boiling
water too.

Quick setting Araldite actually gets brittle with heat and with age.


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Not Halfords, but any paint shop suppliers should have it. Not uber cheap
(and if you don't empty the tube, but the remainder in the fridge) at around
a tenner, but it's better than any of the copies (bathtub sealant for a
start). It can be painted too, where silicon sealants can't.


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We used to use normal 'household' araldite for fixing pressure
plotting tubes into wind tunnel models and the only way to get at a
leaking tube was to use the hot air gun to destroy the bond between
the model and the araldite. Once it had changed colour we just hooked
the araldite out with a blunt screwdriver and avoided fucking up the
other tubes in the same area.

 

Ahh, must be a diffferent stuff to the industrial. Mind you, that's not
surprising, coz when I first got hold of "superglue" it was fucking lethal.
That was Pacer Industries stuff and wasn't generally available to the
public, but when it became an OTC product, it'd lost a lot of its initial
grab and some of its strength too.

A pal of mine glued two bits of plastic with the original Pacer stuff and
blew on the joint. It forced a tiny drop onto his eye and when he blinked,
his eye wouldn't open. It took nearly 3 weeks for the "eye juice" to break
the bond and no-one at the hspital would even try to break it.
None of the CA glues are like that anymore. More's the pity. I suppose a lot
of the epoxies are the same, as epoxies (being a bit of a cancer causer) are
definitley getting weaker.



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Dickhead I am, that should be PUT the remainder in the fridge.

What a cuntish trick THAT was.


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