This is on the list! I want to get a little further down before we do this, as there's a lot of trail left to cut. Once we connect what we have into a complete loop it'll definitely happen.
5:20 quick J-B weld tip. If you spray isopropyl alcohol on it, it will make the jB weld a little bit more like putty and you could smooth the surface out with your finger. After the alcohol evaporates it drys just like normal.
This is how you cold-work metal. This is how they take dents out of cars, for example. Personally, if he cannot find a welder to weld it, I would use aluminium brazing rods. This rim is worth fixing properly by welding it though
I was waiting for a clip of Seth looking at the workbench saying “What the heck happened to my workbench?!”... and then Kevin giving the Tommy Boy response of “What’d you do?!?!?!”
I saw this and another RU-vid video that took a dent out with adjustable wrenches, screw drives and hammers. I used a 4.5” heavy duty steel C-clamp and two metal plates. I sandwiched the rim between the metal plates, then the C-clamp on the metal plates and cranked it down. It only took two attempts. The first got the dent partly out and the second finished it. Almost perfectly straight with barely a scratch!!
I could watch Kevin videos all day, and I bet he's awesome to hang with. But he's not getting anywhere near my garage or tools or bikes! Did he even check the spigot handle back in?
I tried this and lemme tell you, it works so well legit had the rim split apart and after heat, bending and hammering the JB weld held it together and saved it all while on the trail yea bring lighters and jb welt and hammers and drill bits and sandpaper to your next mob trip
Really like the way these videos are made, raw footage without any voice recorded after. Those videos are great too but these are good for a change, and please make more videos with Kevin.
Watching him try to get the cushcore off the rim gave me flashbacks as a shop mechanic. Absolutely one of the hardest things to install and remove on a bike.
That came out looking good! I have been enjoying your vids during this quarantine. You might already know all of these tips for having zero tape leaks but I thought I'd share my experience with it: Sleeved, non welded rims commonly leak even without damage. Luckily some rim manufacturers use a line of epoxy over the seam on the inside of the rim to combat leaking. For non sealed/non welded seam rims I just run the tape all the way up the side of the bead flush with the lip. Use tape that's 2/3 the internal width of the rim and run it along each side of the rim overlapping in the middle. Also, use one quick layer of electrical tape over the eyelets before you use the tubeless tape (helps prevent leaks if you accidentally puncture the tubeless tape with a tire lever....side note: I like using a Predro's tire lever with the tip filed down a few mm for when I'm working with a shallow bead seat rim so that I don't puncture someone's tape). Lastly, use a shop towel with rubbing alcohol as an applicator/squeegee to press the tubeless tape down as you go (prevents wrinkles in tape). AND one last thing.... use your torch and heat up the end of a metal pick to poke the hole in the tape for the valve hole...that keeps it from splitting and cauterizes the tape for no splitting or leaking later.
Honestly thank you for the tip with the 2 component epoxy glue, I have an issue with a rim splitting at the seam and hope that by doing this method I can fix it enough to still be able to run tubeless. Thanks Seth!
Step 1: open your elbow up Step 2: remove the bearings Step 3: Rinse the bearings to remove the grease Step 4: Evaporate the water to leave the grease. Step 5: Re-sew your elbow together Step 6: Enjoy your elbow grease.
Step 1: open your elbow up Step 2: remove the bearings Step 3: Rinse the bearings to remove the grease Step 4: Evaporate the water to leave the grease. Step 5: Re-sew your elbow together Step 6: Enjoy your elbow grease.
Did anyone else notice Kevin mocking Seth when he said "Do you guys know where the directions are at", referencing Seth's hacks video when he pulls off trail to take a wizz to summon a local who knows directions.
Seth you should add a power dump bead for the Gitter and make a video about. Get a front loader to to work on berm peak with, And make a shed on BP-1 to store the Gitter and and Front loader.
This needs a follow-up video on riding the tire to see if it is trail-worthy. I'd like to see how much weaker the rim is after heating. I have a dented rim myself I'd like to bend back, but I want to see someone else prove it's rideability first haha.
Next time, use a shifting spanner to bend the rim bead back out. Doesn’t scuff the rim and the adjustment makes it easy to get the rim exactly between the jaws. Also works well for straightening brake rotors. 😉
I once used JB weld to fix a crack on timing chain cover on a Nissan 4 banger in 91 single cab pick up because the cover was no longer produced. It worked fine up until I got rid of it. Jb weld is amazing stuff
Love this kind of stuff, as someone with a near non-existent budget, I do this kind of stuff all the time lol. I would have used the two-part resin epoxy though instead of the steel stick, I find the resin is better for getting into tiny cracks and spaces.
Best my friend keep going like this support from me only love and happiness to all people and never give up i wish the best to all people !!! And we love you mr Seth ❤️❤️ !!!
I hope Seth's Bike Hacks grows into a network of channels with some of his good friends as presenters for all the different things they are all good at even if it only loosely related to mountain biking lol
I definitely like that you went this process and extreme.... I like saving my rims after I Ben them as well .... Normally I'm not doing tubeless ..... And I learned a long time ago not to do pinned wheels ..... That came for my BMX racing background .... I still race BMX today at 46 and I still to this day will not buy a pinned wheel set
I've meet a guy that is participating in an enduro race using a really really cheap hardtail and he's old but really fast. He bent his rim once while we were riding on a rocky trail and he just smack the heck out of that bent with a rock beside the trail and until now he's riding very aggressively with the same bent rim he smack using a rock.
The reason it's so difficult to get the tire off that rim is because of it's asym shape. You had the wheel upside down, take the tire off the shorter side of the rim first, but do your best to push both sides of the tire to that same side. Sometimes with cush core that isn't easy but with an used cush core they tend to loosen up a little so you should be able to get it close to both sides of the bead on the short side of the rim.
JB Weld Steel Stick Trick: wet finger before kneading and applying. If the water starts to dry and weld starts to stick to your fingers, add more water.
As an soon to be engineer i gotta say that heating the aluminium without heattreating it afterwards probably made this part of the wheel more brittle and prone to cracking ...again. but thats just the theory. hope it works out in the long run!
To bend aluminum well, use a sharpie to mark a spot in the area you are heating and when the sharpie evaporates from the heat of the torch, you know the material is up to temperature for easy bending!
Lol you guys make cushcore look like hard work... As a bike shop guy I'm dealing with downhill tyres over a cushcore and shallow drop Stan's rims... Fitted and removed with a single plastic tyre lever
