Disco Drive
Senior Retro Guru
When they arrived I discovered they were more mismatched than originally thought.
They had odd brake blocks ( not a biggie as I would put new on anyway) they were different shades of black, one set had retention pins through the brass collar and 2 out of the 5 spring adjusters were carbon , blowing my plans for matched anodising out of the water!
So, plan B- strip them right down and have the arms re anodised in black and have a new spring adjuster machined up by L+M of Stardrive cranks fame.
I would then have a set of 4 adjusters that could also be anodised black (I gave up on green as no-one could do it in the vibrant shade I wanted)
When I called to see if the parts were ready from the anodiser, he said he couldn’t coat 2 of the arms as they bubbled up like crazy in the tank and they would have dissolved if allowed to continue!
This was confusing as they were previously anodised? In the end I had to paint them as close to the other pairs new finish as possible.
So here they are all ready with some Kool Stop Eagle claws and an SRP Ti pad holder set installed that saved a whopping 12 grammes!
They had odd brake blocks ( not a biggie as I would put new on anyway) they were different shades of black, one set had retention pins through the brass collar and 2 out of the 5 spring adjusters were carbon , blowing my plans for matched anodising out of the water!
So, plan B- strip them right down and have the arms re anodised in black and have a new spring adjuster machined up by L+M of Stardrive cranks fame.
I would then have a set of 4 adjusters that could also be anodised black (I gave up on green as no-one could do it in the vibrant shade I wanted)
When I called to see if the parts were ready from the anodiser, he said he couldn’t coat 2 of the arms as they bubbled up like crazy in the tank and they would have dissolved if allowed to continue!
This was confusing as they were previously anodised? In the end I had to paint them as close to the other pairs new finish as possible.
So here they are all ready with some Kool Stop Eagle claws and an SRP Ti pad holder set installed that saved a whopping 12 grammes!