Spade grip restoration

Has anyone ever recovered the top of one of these?

See PM!

Has anyone ever recovered the top of one of these?

The black moulded areas either side of the gun button?

The stick top we have for G-BRAF is in similar condition to the one pictured above,but was totally covered in a plastic coating which we had to remove.

Speaking to other engineers, some type of re binding and recovering has been done in the past with various degrees of success.

Can anyone help with a process of recovering one,or know who has one for sale ,trade?

It must be the late type grip with the rectangular gun button.

Thanks in advance

Bwb

thanks

WD40 will not hurt the magnesium alloy (it is purely an alloy of aluminum and magnesium and relies on the aluminum oxide protective coat helping the magnesium not to corrode). WD40 will only help free up the steel parts. My suggestions:-

Remove the brake lever (held on by the single lock nut)
Don’t hit the casting as it will possibly crack.
The brake lever will clean up nicely with scotchbrite.
Remove the brake lever catch (if it is not too corroded) by remivin the remains of the split pin.
Remove the two nuts and bolts holding the grip onto the pivot.
Lock the pivot in a vice and carefully twist the grip and it should come off.
I would suggest that you completely strip the grip and remove the button, if you use glass beads or aluminum oxide blast it should not errode the metal.
Dont blast brass as it will not shine up.
Removing the button is a bit of fun but should be ok. Dont forget to remove the lock pin though.
The steel parts can be brought up like new with Deox-C.

You will enjoy restoring the stick Graham…I always do. I did give some advice on covering the grip etc some threads ago.

Thanks for the info will get some wd at the weekend and give it a good soaking. Will post some pics of the progress.

At last someone is willing to restore me, mind you it’s a big job but I don’t mind you spending your money on me:dev2: 😉

Now thats a good post…

😉 This is the sort of information we need to bottle up and have in a nice tidy thread..:D 😀 Anyone to be Dear Dorothy??…
“Dear Dorothy..
We are about to pull apart our *insert part here*.The gubbins has corroded away and stuffed the black thin sheetmetal thingie.Do we drill the remaining godawful anchor nut catchment system to facilitate the removal of the round doodad with the flappy bit off the end…
Yours truley…depressed and dateless….:rolleyes:

WD40 will not hurt the magnesium alloy (it is purely an alloy of aluminum and magnesium and relies on the aluminum oxide protective coat helping the magnesium not to corrode). WD40 will only help free up the steel parts. My suggestions:-

Remove the brake lever (held on by the single lock nut)
Don’t hit the casting as it will possibly crack.
The brake lever will clean up nicely with scotchbrite.
Remove the brake lever catch (if it is not too corroded) by remivin the remains of the split pin.
Remove the two nuts and bolts holding the grip onto the pivot.
Lock the pivot in a vice and carefully twist the grip and it should come off.
I would suggest that you completely strip the grip and remove the button, if you use glass beads or aluminum oxide blast it should not errode the metal.
Dont blast brass as it will not shine up.
Removing the button is a bit of fun but should be ok. Dont forget to remove the lock pin though.
The steel parts can be brought up like new with Deox-C.

You will enjoy restoring the stick Graham…I always do. I did give some advice on covering the grip etc some threads ago.

WD40??

Is wd 40 ok to use with the magnesium? i am worried about a reaction, the magnesium is a pretty unstable metal.

that, or gallons of WD40 🙂

Here is what i believe to be the origianal spade grip for our hurricane. Does anyone know how to go about restoring it. I am scared to touch it for fear of damaging it, the brake lever and gun button are siezed solid. If you can rest

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http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=66007