Carbon paste
Hi all
I'm tempted to make a small rotational adjustment to the handlebars, the stem is alloy 4 bolt face plate but the bars are carbon. When the bike arrived there was I assume wet carbon paste, now the bars have been tightened the paste has dried.
If I were to adjust the bar position, would I need to use some carbon paste and if so , do I need to clean the old stuff off?
Or can I just losen bolt's off adjust bars and retighten bars without using paste?
Thanks
I'm tempted to make a small rotational adjustment to the handlebars, the stem is alloy 4 bolt face plate but the bars are carbon. When the bike arrived there was I assume wet carbon paste, now the bars have been tightened the paste has dried.
If I were to adjust the bar position, would I need to use some carbon paste and if so , do I need to clean the old stuff off?
Or can I just losen bolt's off adjust bars and retighten bars without using paste?
Thanks
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I'm tempted to make a small rotational adjustment to the handlebars, the stem is alloy 4 bolt face plate but the bars are carbon. When the bike arrived there was I assume wet carbon paste, now the bars have been tightened the paste has dried.
If I were to adjust the bar position, would I need to use some carbon paste and if so , do I need to clean the old stuff off?
Or can I just losen bolt's off adjust bars and retighten bars without using paste?
Thanks
if you need only to adjust, loosen the top pair of bolts half a turn each to loosen, repeat until you can rotate the bars, reverse the process to tighten
but if you've removed/significantly loosened the faceplate, when tightening you should ensure you do it evenly, otherwise it's possible to create excess stress on parts, the gap between faceplate and stem should end up the same at each corner
in general the way to do it evenly is...
take out the slack evenly on each bolt, then tighten each in turn a quarter or half turn following this pattern...
test each time, when the bars are tight you can stop
I've just st installed a front light bracket attached to the bottom two screws of the face plate, replacing the original screws with longer ones and plastic spacers, will the longer screws and plastic spacers have an effect?
Thanks
Longer screws shouldn't change anything, but plastic spacers could possibly deform as you tighten them?
Not sure I'd want plastic spacers on my faceplate bolts TBH
errrr - its not something the MFs would do tbh........
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
Probably be ok, worst case is your bars will snap descending at 40mph and you'll be down one set of carbon bars.
In all seriousness you are probably better placed to judge than we are but I've known people have both bars (alloy) and faceplates snap whilst riding so judge for yourself but err on the side of caution.
Luckily I was slowing down anyway and was only a small movement and I stayed upright. I gave the club ride a miss and took bike home. It transpired, the headset had come lose.
I've since re tightened all bolts and so far been fine
it still doesn't compute now and i'm i.v.ing coffee.....
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
Seems to be all.ok now
No feeling of.movement from bars or headset.
I assume carbon bars can withstand stone chips without.cracking lol car flicked a stone up that hit my bars as I was passing in opposite direction.
the deepest.
#karmaNg
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
of course they can
#sriously?
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
Makes sense but what is the deep NG??????
Nah, I think he's talking about a rice steamer...
Better than the Cleavland Steamer