What Have You Done To Your Tdm Today?

[danielcarway]

Fixed my fairing mount lugs (the rectangular holes the sidepanel locates in) with the old baking powder and superglue trick. If you've ever looked up anything vaguely technical online you've probably seen it. Didn't think it'd work but stone me, it did.

 

Luckily I have a spare nosecone which is in worse nick than the current one, but it has all the locating holes intact, and I was able to take a Blu-Tac mould of it to then offer up to the bike. Used a smear of Vaseline lip balm so the mould didn't stick.

 

Raided the kitchen for baking powder, made a little coke spoon out of a lolly stick, and layered up powder and glue. If I did it again I'd want more liquidy glue but that might have to come from somewhere more specialist than B&Q, which only had quite viscous stuff. I also put a paperclip in there as rebar, then did quite a lot of Dremelling to tidy the edges.

 

It ain't pretty, but it's not on view, and so far it seems strong. If I was one of those modern influencer types I'd have made a tiktok of it, but you'll have to settle for a pic.

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