Solvents and Carbon Frames

[Rapunzel]

My kevlar downtube protecter has come loose. What can I attach it with which is durable and won't harm my carbon frame?

[Johan Bornman]

You can attach it with anything other than bolts or pop rivets. You have nothing in your garage, under your sink ior in n your drinks cabinet or your poison store that can harm carbon.

[Rapunzel]

Thanks Johan - so contact adhesive will do the job?

[Colin H]

3M make a very high strength double sided tape that is super thin and is probably a bit stronger than contact and will damp some of the vibrations as well

[Johan Bornman]

Thanks Johan - so contact adhesive will do the job?

 

Yup, and when you get tired of it or it gets ugly, you can remove it with petrol, whisky, diesel, paraffin, acetone, spray and cook, Q20 or that other nasty brown vile fluid....Nescafe. Carbon is impervious to anything you* can throw at it.

 

*Disclaimer: this statement holds true for the average household. We once had a chemistry prof here who kept some pretty nasty stuff under his kitchen sink that could harm carbon and kill a horse.

[Li Mu Bai]

Yup, and when you get tired of it or it gets ugly, you can remove it with petrol, whisky, diesel, paraffin, acetone, spray and cook, Q20 or that other nasty brown vile fluid....Nescafe. Carbon is impervious to anything you* can throw at it.

 

*Disclaimer: this statement holds true for the average household. We once had a chemistry prof here who kept some pretty nasty stuff under his kitchen sink that could harm carbon and kill a horse.

what about matches...

[brussel]

I'd go with the double sided tape option. Cheap and you can replace it every year if need be.