Brake pad retaining screw replacement?

bigpikle
bigpikle Posts: 1,690
edited July 2012 in Workshop
One of the tiny grub screws holding a brake pad has worked loose and fallen out. Anyone know where I can source a replacement please? Loks like about 4mm long and has a 2.5mm hex head. Google search brings up totally unrelated stuff and I just cant find what I need....

Many thanks
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  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Ask your LBS, many spare brake pads come with new ones and often shops will hang onto spares
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    Yep, Swisstop greens come with replacement grub-screws - perhaps it's time for some new pads?

    I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

    @ratsbey
  • rpd_steve
    rpd_steve Posts: 361
    ratsbeyfus wrote:
    Yep, Swisstop greens come with replacement grub-screws - perhaps it's time for some new pads?
    Got quite a few as most pads come with new screws. If you PM me your address I will pop a couple in the post tomorrow.
  • Yossie
    Yossie Posts: 2,600
    Or buy some really cheap new pads and holders such as the Clarks ones from CRC - £5 a pair and the pads actually work really well.

    Top tip of the night: don't do them upe too tight or they will never come out and you'll round the heads off trying- nip tight plus a 1/4 turn (the loctite holds them in and they are never really under any pressure, so shouldn't come out at all in normal use).

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