I have always used hairspray and have never had a problem with them slidding off. and while the hairspray is still wet acts like a lubricant to slide then on
Hair spray too makes the grip slide on nice and when it's dried the grip is well stuck to the bar, I DO INSIST you DO NOT do what the f!$%WIT who put the prev set of heated grips on the bike did.
Yes NO NAILS ADHESIVE will keep the grip firmly on the bar but needing to use a craft knife the remove the rubber then a blow torch to melt the plastic and a scraper to remove the molten plastic of what was a grip from the bar end whilst not setting fire to the switch cluster is not my idea of fun
oxford heated grips are supplied with superglue..... yes.... superglue!!!! you have to be billy the kid fast to get em on with a contact adhesive!!!! I just got an old wd40 applicator tube and small syringe. slid the tube between grip and bar then fed in the glue as i drew the tube out (customer insisted i used the glue supplied)
Usually with grips the best way is to use a low boil solvent like brake cleaner to clean everything with and then wet the grip and bar with brake cleaner, put the grip on and once the solvent has evaporated voila!!!
i bought a bike a few years ago and as i brought it out of the van, halfway down the ramp there was a comedy "pop" sound and a crash..... how my friends laughed as i stood over my broken bike with just a grip in my hand!!
main thing is make sure it's safe, secure and yer happy with it!!
We'll, i took the grip off last night as i found some Bostick quick drying general purpose glue kicking around in the house. The grip slid of very easily as the original glue was still wet! for some reason, it hadn't set at all. I wonder if it's too cold i the garage or something?
ChazzyB: Superglue worked for me, after trying Renthal glue and something from my wife's dressing table and both failed.
did you take a big runup or put the glue in after you located the grip???
of all the things mentioned on the packet.... wood, metal, glass, plastic, ceramic ..... how come they never mention fingers??????? it sticks them brilliant every time i use the bloody stuff
and make sure if you use superglue that you cover any vunerable paint, plastic etc as superglue has a nasty tendency to drip and make a right bloody mess of whatever it lands on
of all the things mentioned on the packet.... wood, metal, glass, plastic, ceramic ..... how come they never mention fingers??????? it sticks them brilliant every time i use the bloody stuff
Superglue was developed as wound dressing in its butyl cyanoacrylate form. From Wiki The adhesive has demonstrated superior performance in the time required to close a wound, incidence of infection (suture canals through the skin's epidermal, dermal, and subcutaneous fat layers introduce extra routes of contamination)and final cosmetic appearance.
No wonder it's capable of sticking fingers together .....
of all the things mentioned on the packet.... wood, metal, glass, plastic, ceramic ..... how come they never mention fingers??????? it sticks them brilliant every time i use the bloody stuff
Superglue was developed as wound dressing in its butyl cyanoacrylate form. From Wiki The adhesive has demonstrated superior performance in the time required to close a wound, incidence of infection (suture canals through the skin's epidermal, dermal, and subcutaneous fat layers introduce extra routes of contamination)and final cosmetic appearance.
No wonder it's capable of sticking fingers together .....
absoloutley right .... developed around the time of vietnam and although cyanoacrylate is extremeley carcinogenic and causes massive problems with the human body's blood (the paint i use has a cyanoacrylate component) they figured it was a lot less deadly than all of your guts hanging out and as a first aid kit goes it don't come much smaller!!!
noggin: They have developed a low toxic version that is used for medical purposes these days, but the standard super glue you buy is pretty nasty stuff.
as is the paint containing similar isocyanates..... a respirator fault put me in hospital for over a week last year when the active ingredient of the paint stripped the lining from my stomach and part of my upper intestine
