stop front light in bracket rattling somehow?

ben-----
ben----- Posts: 573
edited December 2016 in Workshop
I've got a Moon XP600 http://moon-sport.com/product-detail.php?id=92 and it's rattling quite a bit in its bracket (I think it may have got worse over time but I'm not sure). It's still very much secured, it's not going to fall out I don't think, but it'd be good to stop it rattling. Any ideas? (without spending any/lots of money) Thanks.

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  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,338
    depends on the fitting, if it's slide-in maybe it's due to worn mating surfaces

    try a strip of insulating tape to pad it, you can build up layers if needed
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • ben-----
    ben----- Posts: 573
    Yes it's a slide in and click, with a catch button to press in to unclip.

    Yeah, I'll try that, thanks.
  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    Just a thought. is the light close to the stem?, if so is it rattling against it?. As looking at the mount which seems to be rubberised/plastic difficult to see wherelse a rattle could come from. Seems mount slide in attachment same as my garmin 705 and after 7/8 years it has not worn at all.
  • ben-----
    ben----- Posts: 573
    plowmar wrote:
    Just a thought. is the light close to the stem?, if so is it rattling against it?

    No, that's not it unfortunately. It is definitely just a bit loose in the bracket thing.

    This is the bracket:

    laa692_xpower_400.jpg
  • 47p2
    47p2 Posts: 329
    Top part of the bracket where the light slides onto is also a pivot, so could be the pivot pin that is worn/loose
  • ben-----
    ben----- Posts: 573
    Just to follow up on this. 47p2, it wasn't the pivot mechanism. Could have been but wasn't. Insulation tape didn't really work very well. Didn't stop it rattling much, came off after only a few uses, etc. Solution: araldite glue. Few blobs on the bracket: here and there and quite a bit on the flat top. Then once dried a bit of scalpelling and filing of glue to allow light to get on. No rattling :)

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