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Changed the pads on my 1100 yesterday, what should have been a ten minute job ended up taking three hours due to all the pad pins being coroded into the caliper body.
After a quick call to the bike shop and being told the cost would be £4.00 for each pin I drew a length of 5mm stainless rod and proceeded to turn 6 lengths down to 4.6mm to fit the caliper holes.
Looking at these pins and what they do 4.5mm stainless rod would have been fine for the job and easy to get hold of.
To make your own pins all youl need is 300mm of 4.5mm stainless rod, a center punch and a small drill bit just a little over the diameter of the spring steel used on the R clips that go through the pad pins.
Using stainless your never going to see them stick in the calipers again. a little dob of copper slip on the end of each pin will make them bugger up proof for good.
After a quick call to the bike shop and being told the cost would be £4.00 for each pin I drew a length of 5mm stainless rod and proceeded to turn 6 lengths down to 4.6mm to fit the caliper holes.
Looking at these pins and what they do 4.5mm stainless rod would have been fine for the job and easy to get hold of.
To make your own pins all youl need is 300mm of 4.5mm stainless rod, a center punch and a small drill bit just a little over the diameter of the spring steel used on the R clips that go through the pad pins.
Using stainless your never going to see them stick in the calipers again. a little dob of copper slip on the end of each pin will make them bugger up proof for good.
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