Re: Another ‘80 - The Bitsa Bike
Posted: Sun May 29, 2022 12:45 pm
Did another project - getting a few sets of footpegs refurbed, two full sets for me and Joe, plus a couple of front sets for my friend Jim, who kindly windowed a set of footrest plates for me. I had been successfully using 3M super weatherstripping adhesive for my peg projects, and if the prep was followed to the letter, I had very good results with that. However, many guys were not so successful and had adhesion failures with that. Our pal Terry (Tevan), who sells the rubbers, researched a different adhesive process that I used on this set, and so far so good, and it was WAY WAY faster and easier and less messy. Thanks as always for sharing your learnings, Terry. In short, this uses an industrial CA glue (CA = cyanoacrylate - think "Krazy Glue"). The footrests are prepped as normal: Skin the old rubber, blast and refinish however you prefer (I vapor blast them). Then the rubber is cleaned - I use denatured alcohol. Terry's vendor specifies the use of a product they call "poly prep", not sure what that is, but I didn't have it. I had my own industrial CA glue on hand and so used that. The cleaned rubbers and prepped, degreased bases are heated in a warm 120-degree oven, the gel CA glue is applied to the rubber only, and then a spray activator that is compatible with the industrial CA glue is applied to the bases. Squeeze the two together for 15 seconds and then give them 24 hours to set up fully. So far, so good, they survived a hard pull a couple of days later and as above, it was tons faster and easier and less messy too.
Disassembling and cleaning up a very good set of rear footpegs:
These were disassembled, cleaned, vapor blasted, and then reassembled with a bit of fresh grease. Looking good, working perfectly again.
Ditto the fronts, except these also had the new rubbers installed.
New feeler bolts and washers and a touch of grease at the pivot. You can see a skosh of excess CA glue, that is easily tidied up with a small pick if it bugs you at ankle height.
Now they are installed and looking good!
Disassembling and cleaning up a very good set of rear footpegs:
These were disassembled, cleaned, vapor blasted, and then reassembled with a bit of fresh grease. Looking good, working perfectly again.
Ditto the fronts, except these also had the new rubbers installed.
New feeler bolts and washers and a touch of grease at the pivot. You can see a skosh of excess CA glue, that is easily tidied up with a small pick if it bugs you at ankle height.
Now they are installed and looking good!