rbent Forum - Carbent Seat Mount Failure

jayg Five Star Member rbent member Posts: 4195	Re: Carbent Seat Mount Failure Reply #15 - Apr 19^th, 2013, 10:24am Thanks everybody for the comments and suggestions. Last night, I ordered $90 worth of aircraft grade epoxy adhesive to use in accomplishing the repair work.
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jcsadowski Five Star Member Clown #1 Posts: 1199	Re: Carbent Seat Mount Failure Reply #16 - Apr 19^th, 2013, 11:22am Quote: Last night, I ordered $90 worth of aircraft grade epoxy adhesive to use in accomplishing the repair work. Jay, Good Luck. John
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jayg Five Star Member rbent member Posts: 4195	Re: Carbent Seat Mount Failure Reply #17 - Apr 19^th, 2013, 11:51am Quote from jcsadowski on Apr 19^th, 2013, 11:22am: Quote: Last night, I ordered $90 worth of aircraft grade epoxy adhesive to use in accomplishing the repair work. Jay, Good Luck. John Thanks, John.
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Re: Carbent Seat Mount Failure
Reply #18 - May 5^th, 2013, 9:08pm

Due to the great expense of having the factory fix my Carbent's failed seat-to-frame attachment, decided to attempt the repair myself. I've been putting it off, because it's a one- shot deal. If I screw it up, the bike is ruined. Everything seemed to go OK. I followed the bike manufacturer's prep and adhesive application instructions, strapped the seat to the frame, then aligned the seat and struts. In 5 days, after the epoxy adhesive fully cures, I'll find out whether or not the repair attempt has been successful. Hope to ride the bike this Saturday at the Cedar Hill "Head for the Hills" ride.

Prepped frame and seat mount.

900 grams of aircraft grade epoxy adhesive. I used only 24.6 grams. Cost me $90. Smallest quantity I could buy.

Applying adhesive.

Strapped seat to frame with ratcheting load strap.

The squirrels keep coming in the garage and bugging me, so I have to go out and feed them.

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Re: Carbent Seat Mount Failure
Reply #19 - May 6^th, 2013, 6:16am

"900 grams of aircraft grade epoxy adhesive. I used only 24.6 grams. Cost me $90. Smallest quantity I could buy."

Perhaps with the rousing success of the repair you could offer the same job to other unfortunates...depending on how risk averse you are.

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"The squirrels keep coming in the garage and bugging me, so I have to go out and feed them.

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Aww! Reminds me of Dr. Doolittle: "If I could talk to the animals..."
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Re: Carbent Seat Mount Failure
Reply #20 - May 6^th, 2013, 6:52am

A few years ago, while at RBM talking with Jack, one of the bike repair techs, came by to say hello (Dana). As he turned around, and started to walk away, I noticed the back of his jacket was moving. I asked what is going on with your back. He pulled out a baby squirrel. It turned out it had fell out of a nest, and he had raised it back to health. Dana released it back to nature, a few weeks later.

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jayg

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Re: Carbent Seat Mount Failure
Reply #21 - May 6^th, 2013, 10:11am

Quote from Action Lad on May 6^th, 2013, 6:16am:

Perhaps with the rousing success of the repair you could offer the same job to other unfortunates...depending on how risk averse you are.

I think the best service I could provide would be to give the following advice to people contemplating shelling out big bucks for a CF high racer: Don't buy a low production bike glued together like a model airplane. Buy a CA 2.0.

Checked the bike this morning. The epoxy set hard overnight, so everything is looking good, so far.

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Re: Carbent Seat Mount Failure
Reply #22 - May 6^th, 2013, 10:19am

Quote from obent on May 6^th, 2013, 6:52am:

A few years ago, while at RBM talking with Jack, one of the bike repair techs, came by to say hello (Dana). As he turned around, and started to walk away, I noticed the back of his jacket was moving. I asked what is going on with your back. He pulled out a baby squirrel. It turned out it had fell out of a nest, and he had raised it back to health. Dana released it back to nature, a few weeks later.

I'm worried about baby squirrels. I'm surrounded by healthy, fat squirrels when I go outside, right now. When their babies start showing up there's going to be a herd of them waiting for me to come outside. Cheesy

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Re: Carbent Seat Mount Failure
Reply #23 - May 10^th, 2013, 7:17pm

Let the epoxy adhesive cure for 5 days, then took the bike for a 6.4 mile round trip to WRL this afternoon. Ran it over a rough plank bridge twice at speed and hit some bumps with it. The seat remained solidly attached to the frame tube, so the repair is apparently successful. Bill, John, and Corsa Ken, look for me on the bike at "Head for the Hills", tomorrow morning.

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