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View Poll Results: Thread lock or copper grease
Thread lock 9 34.62%
Copper grease 13 50.00%
Both! 0 0%
Neither... 3 11.54%
I am, in a very real way, keithd 1 3.85%
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Old 15-02-08, 07:42 AM   #1
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Default Caliper mounting bolts - Threadlock or Coppaslip?

First of all let me thank everyone who has ever contributed anything useful to a thread on brakes - caliper servicing, seized piston removal, bleeding, anything - I read them all and needed to! Also about one PM away from going on Northy's banned list, so a special mention there

Anyway, just two short weeks after I started on my binding front brakes (I made every mistake ever heard of and invented a couple of new ones) I am ready to remount the caliper and sign off, when I run headlong into this wobbler...

Haynes - Apply a suitable non-permanent thread locking compound to the caliper bolts
Bike magazine - Apply copper grease to the threads of the caliper bolts

You're having a laugh! Which is it peeps? Thanks for your vote.

And think yourself lucky you're not coming on the Ecosse rideout this Sunday or you'd have to hear the whole sorry tale

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Old 15-02-08, 08:43 AM   #2
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Default Re: Caliper mouting bolts - Threadlock or Coppaslip?

for a road bike I would thread lock them, for a racer I would copper grease and lock wire.
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Old 15-02-08, 05:00 PM   #3
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Default Re: Caliper mouting bolts - Threadlock or Coppaslip?

As of 5 o'clock it's 4-2 for thread lock. Good enough for me!

(Unless the 2 for coppaslip were Spannerman and Sid Squid of course...)
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Old 15-02-08, 05:02 PM   #4
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Default Re: Caliper mouting bolts - Threadlock or Coppaslip?

Thread lok
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Old 15-02-08, 05:02 PM   #5
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Default Re: Caliper mouting bolts - Threadlock or Coppaslip?

Threadlock unless there's an alternative locking method such as tab washers, lockwire etc.
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Old 15-02-08, 05:38 PM   #6
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Default Re: Caliper mouting bolts - Threadlock or Coppaslip?

Non peminent thread lock---and----THE CORRECT TORQUE.
Remember these are screwing into alloy casings and it is so easy to strip them by overtightening
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Old 15-02-08, 05:44 PM   #7
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Default Re: Caliper mouting bolts - Threadlock or Coppaslip?

They coppaslip them at every reputable bike dealers I know, and I do the same. Just make sure they're torqued correctly.
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Old 15-02-08, 06:50 PM   #8
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Default Re: Caliper mouting bolts - Threadlock or Coppaslip?

I hardly threadlock anything, but then parts tend not to stay on the bike long enough to rattle loose
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Old 15-02-08, 07:04 PM   #9
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Default Re: Caliper mouting bolts - Threadlock or Coppaslip?

Copperslip.

I use titanium bolts and these came supplied with the CS.

Never had a problem with them coming loose. *Touches head*
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Old 15-02-08, 07:43 PM   #10
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