Slow Monster rebuild

350TSS · 24-10-2018, 10:53 AM

My ace plan did not work for two reasons, first, my ½” drive allen key holder would not fit the best fit allen key for the mullered socket head.
I decided to weld an allen key into the mullered head anyway.
The second reason was that the British made, finest steel allen key, during the welding process obviously imported some Italian cheese ions from the Brembo bolt because when I tried to undo the first bastard bolt it first bent then almost immediately sheared, leaving a perfectly welded 8 mm stub and a very secure, unmoved caliper casting connection bolt.
This left me in a bit of a quandary I could either drill it (say 3mm) out from the other side. I judged that I had two chances of drilling a 3mm hole in a high tensile(?) 40mm bolt concentric and parallel to the shank of the bolt i.e. - slim and none.
So I resorted to type and got the hammer out – Darkness’s Plan B was looming so I had nothing to lose anyway.
With the aid of a chisel, it worked on the three recalcitrant bolts out of the 8 bolts holding the two calipers together and the caliper castings, whilst suffering some bruising in the process, will be perfectly serviceable after a light dressing with a file and a couple of coats of satin black.
All this took a long time so nothing else got done today.
Sorry no pictures my computer of its own free will decided that it would no longer download pictures – no warning or alerts, no means of finding out why and worse no means of making it do what it is supposed to do - that is why I will always prefer carburettor bikes.

24-10-2018, 10:53 AM	#11
350TSS Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Shipbourne Bike: M900 Posts: 1,421	My ace plan did not work for two reasons, first, my ½” drive allen key holder would not fit the best fit allen key for the mullered socket head. I decided to weld an allen key into the mullered head anyway. The second reason was that the British made, finest steel allen key, during the welding process obviously imported some Italian cheese ions from the Brembo bolt because when I tried to undo the first bastard bolt it first bent then almost immediately sheared, leaving a perfectly welded 8 mm stub and a very secure, unmoved caliper casting connection bolt. This left me in a bit of a quandary I could either drill it (say 3mm) out from the other side. I judged that I had two chances of drilling a 3mm hole in a high tensile(?) 40mm bolt concentric and parallel to the shank of the bolt i.e. - slim and none. So I resorted to type and got the hammer out – Darkness’s Plan B was looming so I had nothing to lose anyway. With the aid of a chisel, it worked on the three recalcitrant bolts out of the 8 bolts holding the two calipers together and the caliper castings, whilst suffering some bruising in the process, will be perfectly serviceable after a light dressing with a file and a couple of coats of satin black. All this took a long time so nothing else got done today. Sorry no pictures my computer of its own free will decided that it would no longer download pictures – no warning or alerts, no means of finding out why and worse no means of making it do what it is supposed to do - that is why I will always prefer carburettor bikes.