jubilee clips - excellent seat post shims
Bought a seatpost 2mm smaller due to out of stock on suitable one. Couldn't wait, didn't want to miss my training.
To let you know that using jubilee clips make excellent shims. Wanted to make a 2mm shim. Tried cans, aluminium tape and numerous other things but not super tight.
Snapping of 3 half circle parts of jubilee 18-25mm clips and spreading them around the seatpost an equal distance apart has made a excellent shim. Removing saddle the clips are still stuck to the seatpost
To let you know that using jubilee clips make excellent shims. Wanted to make a 2mm shim. Tried cans, aluminium tape and numerous other things but not super tight.
Snapping of 3 half circle parts of jubilee 18-25mm clips and spreading them around the seatpost an equal distance apart has made a excellent shim. Removing saddle the clips are still stuck to the seatpost
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It was through lots of trial and error and searching local DIY store. If you can find bendable thicker aluminum strip metal. I'm sure that would do well.
Tried the infamous fruit and coke cans. The trouble with several layers, it still makes it twist.
If i had some decent files or machinery i could of made from the old bent seatpost lol.0 -
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I had an old seat post. It wasn't strong enough and started to bend. I had cut it down alot to save some weight. 25.2 is not a common size easy to find. 25mm is, so i got that.0
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sandbag wrote:I had an old seat post. It wasn't strong enough and started to bend. I had cut it down alot to save some weight. 25.2 is not a common size easy to find. 25mm is, so i got that.
That's 0.2mm, not 2mm?Carlsberg don't make cycle clothing, but if they did it would probably still not be as good as Assos0 -
Slow Downcp wrote:sandbag wrote:I had an old seat post. It wasn't strong enough and started to bend. I had cut it down alot to save some weight. 25.2 is not a common size easy to find. 25mm is, so i got that.
That's 0.2mm, not 2mm?
which means that the jubilee clip thickness would have to be 0.1mm - which I doubt is feasible.
I smell something......0 -
Slow Downcp wrote:sandbag wrote:I had an old seat post. It wasn't strong enough and started to bend. I had cut it down alot to save some weight. 25.2 is not a common size easy to find. 25mm is, so i got that.
That's 0.2mm, not 2mm?
Here's the tale.
No calipers. I took the old seatpost with me to the LBS. I didn't even compare the old seatpost to the one's in shop. I was that arrogantly confident and got it into my head the old seatposts were 27.2 and this frame was that lol. So i got a black 27.2. Convinced i had the right one, on the way home i quickly threw the old seatpost into a bin. I scratched the end of the new one inserting it, as it was too big. So i took it back to the shop and they very kindly swapped it still. So i now discover there's 26.4 26.2 and some more odd sizes lol. What is mine now??? So i come out of shop and go looking for my old seatpost. Problem is there's 5 streets all similar with bins and the bins are covered in snow, so i can't find the seatpost lol. I go back home and try exactly to measure the seat post hole diameter with a tape measure. It's exactly 2.5cm plus 2mm, So i go back to the shop and get it into my head i need 25.2 lol when in actual fact that be 27mm.
The seat post wobble loose inside all sides. But not anymore, it is firm as a rock. The jubilee clips look approximately 2mm. Looking at it finished, it looks the right size inserted.0 -
what a load of toss.....is this another of your wind-ups...??0
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I ended up with a 25mm but the real diameter was 27mm so the 3 semi circle jubilees squeezed in perfectly tight to close that 2mm gap
. It's abit lighter than a 27mm seatpost lol. 0
