Felt DA Bayonet bracket needed

Slo_Rida

Hi all
I'm more used to the cycling realm but hopefully someone on here can help.
I bought a second hand Felt a couple of months back and the bracket that clamps the TT extensions has broken. The other one has a hair line crack AFAICS also.
Just wondering if anyone knows where I can go for it? My race is Saturday week so I'm supposed to be training pretty hard this week.
Thanks for any help,
Slo
PS Hopefully the pic is attached

68 lost souls

I believe wheelworx are felt dealers would be worth giving them a call

Slo_Rida

68 lost souls wrote: »

I believe wheelworx are felt dealers would be worth giving them a call

Thanks , I was talking to them and they don’t have it in stock, only offered to sell me new bars.

peter kern

https://www.felt-stuff.com/parts-spares/?p=3


call the number at bottom of the page.

good luck

send us a pic of the bar maybe you have other options to repair it ( ie other brackets might work if you cant find the orginal one)

Slo_Rida

Heres a picture I had handy.
Thanks, but I need to sort it ASAP so I don't think I can order from Felt. Also, they don't have this item in stock.
Slo

mossym

if you are that desperate you may have to try repairing rather than buying. the issue with bits like this is they tend to be cast alloys which are impossible to weld. so that's not an option. i had a simialr issue with a projector mount for a ceiling earlier in the year, snapped in delivery to me, and no way i was risking an expensive projector on it. the supliers shipped me a new bit, but in the meantime i tried this stuff

http://www.loctiteproducts.com/p/13/7/epxy_metal_s/overview/Loctite-Epoxy-Metal-Concrete.htm

followed their instructions, and it didn't hold after the few hours they said it would take to set, however, a couple of days later i picked it up again and it had fully set, even held up to some pretty robust testing(smacked it with a hammer, teh spare had arrived so i wasn't using it anyway).

you can get the epoxy in a local co-op or somewhere like B&Q. might be worth giving it a go while you try to locate a spare

peter kern

Slo_Rida wrote: »

Heres a picture I had handy.
Thanks, but I need to sort it ASAP so I don't think I can order from Felt. Also, they don't have this item in stock.
Slo

i would go to an alu welder and have bracket welded . (but first i would move both extension further apart ( to the next wider whole and then get the pads closer to the extension)

and on top of it i would build a bridge from pad to pad

your pads are very far apart and with you clamping system you create a lot of pressure and your pads and extension and pads tend to slide when you go over a pothole



with a good bridge, maybe what mossy suggests might work but i would not risk that personally

ps if you go the welding route i would remove the Di2 cable of left extension ...

mossym

peter kern wrote: »

i would go to an alu welder and have bracket welded .

if it is aluminium that's definitely the best route, if it's an alloy though welding is not usually an option, it's to brittle and doesn't weld

peter kern wrote: »

with a good bridge, maybe what mossy suggests might work but i would not risk that personally

it's last resort for sure, but in the absence of any other options...

Slo_Rida

Thanks a lot guys.
I spoke to a friend who is a skilled welder (though not a big engineering co) and he thought welding is not an option.
He did however suggest we make new brackets. He had the 2 samples (attached) in his workshop and we can cut and join them so the holes are correctly spaced and then it should be just a case of locating longer bolts to bolt the stack and bracket to the bars.
Any thoughts on this?

Slo_Rida

So I've made progress I cut the 2 brackets and got the spacing to match. Then I put 4 very pretty gutter bolts in place and it seems to be fully functional.
I think I can see a tiny crack in the other side so I would like to so the same for it. But I'm out of brackets now. I believe these came from a moto cross bike so if anyone has some or something similar, I'd be very grateful.
Slo

peter kern

awesome that looks bomb proof. ( just use some glue and duct tape to make it a bit more aero ;-)
is there a motto cross forum on boards as they are the most likely to have those parts