What is Spirgrips paste?
05-16-23, 11:04 AM
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What is Spirgrips paste?
Hey folks,
Spirgrips recommends using a "pasta" (paste) when installing their grips. Any idea what is in that paste, or if there are any aftermarket ones?
Spirgrips recommends using a "pasta" (paste) when installing their grips. Any idea what is in that paste, or if there are any aftermarket ones?
05-16-23, 03:01 PM
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Does this involve Carbon Fiber parts?
If so, it's a "friction enhancer".
I don't do CF, but I know they have an "assembly paste".
Google-
"carbon fiber assembly paste"
If so, it's a "friction enhancer".
I don't do CF, but I know they have an "assembly paste".
Google-
"carbon fiber assembly paste"
05-16-23, 03:52 PM
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Didn't they have a bunch of pasta found out in the woods of New Jersey the other week? Was some of that "spirgrips" pasta?
05-17-23, 12:17 AM
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My favorite pasta would be strozzapreti (or priest choker in English
) or spaghetti rigati or angel hair not sure what they would recommend.
They show putting what looks to be a glue or something odd and I would not recommend that and would clarify with them and still probably avoid it. I think they either love their product so much or are so desperate for you to have it and not try and return it or they are so poorly constructed that they cannot be properly torqued and stay tight for what is needed of them that they are suggesting gluing them down. I could be wrong but they can clarify. The only time I might put something inside a grip is either a hair spray or generally these days alcohol and that is only on slip fit grips but I so rarely use those except in applications where I literally cannot use lock on grips but that is just to help install or potentially remove them a lock on grip doesn't need that at all.
) or spaghetti rigati or angel hair not sure what they would recommend.They show putting what looks to be a glue or something odd and I would not recommend that and would clarify with them and still probably avoid it. I think they either love their product so much or are so desperate for you to have it and not try and return it or they are so poorly constructed that they cannot be properly torqued and stay tight for what is needed of them that they are suggesting gluing them down. I could be wrong but they can clarify. The only time I might put something inside a grip is either a hair spray or generally these days alcohol and that is only on slip fit grips but I so rarely use those except in applications where I literally cannot use lock on grips but that is just to help install or potentially remove them a lock on grip doesn't need that at all.
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This is a screen shot out of the Spirgrips assembly instructions downloaded directly from their website:
I'm sure this very common paste which is available anywhere that sells carbon fiber bike stuff should have been included in the package. Unless you bought them second hand.
I'm sure this very common paste which is available anywhere that sells carbon fiber bike stuff should have been included in the package. Unless you bought them second hand.
05-18-23, 08:23 PM
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This is not carbon assembly paste, which is just gritty grease, it's an adhesive that locks cylindrical parts together, like thread lock for unthreaded components. It used to be specified for the triple clamp on some suspension forks, probably still is.
05-19-23, 12:27 AM
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My favorite pasta would be strozzapreti (or priest choker in English) or spaghetti rigati or angel hair not sure what they would recommend.
They show putting what looks to be a glue or something odd and I would not recommend that and would clarify with them and still probably avoid it. I think they either love their product so much or are so desperate for you to have it and not try and return it or they are so poorly constructed that they cannot be properly torqued and stay tight for what is needed of them that they are suggesting gluing them down. I could be wrong but they can clarify. The only time I might put something inside a grip is either a hair spray or generally these days alcohol and that is only on slip fit grips but I so rarely use those except in applications where I literally cannot use lock on grips but that is just to help install or potentially remove them a lock on grip doesn't need that at all.
) or spaghetti rigati or angel hair not sure what they would recommend.They show putting what looks to be a glue or something odd and I would not recommend that and would clarify with them and still probably avoid it. I think they either love their product so much or are so desperate for you to have it and not try and return it or they are so poorly constructed that they cannot be properly torqued and stay tight for what is needed of them that they are suggesting gluing them down. I could be wrong but they can clarify. The only time I might put something inside a grip is either a hair spray or generally these days alcohol and that is only on slip fit grips but I so rarely use those except in applications where I literally cannot use lock on grips but that is just to help install or potentially remove them a lock on grip doesn't need that at all.
05-19-23, 12:40 AM
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I use alcohol to help it slide on but because it is alcohol, it will evaporate eventually. Fewer chemcials and issues just simply alcohol and water.
It has nothing to do with any sort of gender things as Bill Kapaun said, I know plenty of people of all genders or lack thereof who use hair spray. Typically when working on a bike I have alcohol nearby but not hairspray. At the old shop I worked at we had it and used frequently.
It has nothing to do with any sort of gender things as Bill Kapaun said, I know plenty of people of all genders or lack thereof who use hair spray. Typically when working on a bike I have alcohol nearby but not hairspray. At the old shop I worked at we had it and used frequently.
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