Slipping Post

nax-ian
nax-ian Posts: 209
edited October 2010 in Workshop
Having problems with my carbon post sliding down all the time. It's sitting in a carbon frame but with an alloy/aluminiun collar. Am a bit scared to really tighten down on it with the allen key. I've heard/ read you can buy some kinda "paste" for carbon to carbon contact points, just seems a bit excessive.
Any other tips, tricks, ideas anyone please.

Cheers
Finished

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  • alfablue
    alfablue Posts: 8,497
    The Carbon Assembly Compound is less than £8 and if you are worried about messing up your frame and / or seatpost it would seem to be cheap at the price. Don't be tight now :roll: :wink:
  • JohnnyAllez
    JohnnyAllez Posts: 785
    Chain Reaction sell small sachets of the anti-slip paste, dirt cheap to see if it cures the problem. Cheaper option which does work is clean the post and inside the tube then give the post a good squirt of hair spray (pinch some if you don`t use it yourself :wink: ) then re-fit the post while the stuff is still wet, tighten the clamp to the correct torque, you have got a torque wrench havn`t you?
    Jens says "Shut up legs !! "

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  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Ritchey Torqkey for 12 quid - stop you over-tightening and a lot cheaper than a replacement post.
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • Warwickshire Whizzer
    Warwickshire Whizzer Posts: 218
    +1 Hairspray
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    +1 Tacx Carbon Assembly Compound.

    You can buy it in tubs for about £15, but you only need a small amount so the 80g tube from PBK is plenty http://www.probikekit.com/display.php?code=A1637
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    When this happened on my new bike (carbon post, ally frame) I emailed Epic asking the max torque figure, which I received followed by a sachet of carbon assembly compound in the post free of charge :D Enough to do a seatpost 3 or 4 times, the stuff means the post stays where it's put without having to tighten the bolt anywhere near it's max reccommended torque.

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