Razor scooter woes

I would use instead of red Loctite the green stuff. Number 609 is one grade of "forever Loctite". Since you are locking a cylinder, not threads. I have always wondered why a different type of Loctite needed to be used, what was different about the two types, one for threads and the other for cylinders. The viscosities are so close to the same that I don't think that's the reason. I did contact Henkel and ask them but their technical dept. wouldn't tell me why. Eric

How much longer you figure he's going to be the right size to ride? I'd go with the red loctite, and see if that holds.

Second attempt might be two part epoxy.

As to drill, cut threads and put in 8=32 screws maybe, and loctite the screws in?

. Christ> My youngest has a Razor Scooter, looking something like this one: >

Why not just use a couple radiator hose clamps..the worm screw type and simply tighten the bastard down?

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Here's a picture of the four screw collar that I mentioned:

You think hose clamps will compete with the two screw version of that? I think you don't understand the problem at all.

Anyway, red locktite applied. Holding so far, but so far hasn't been long yet. Drill and cotterpin will probably be next tact.

Elijah

------ "a few mm too small" above refers to diameter

seat post clamps on bicycles are a another type of "collar clamp". If you t ype in collar clamp in a search, that should get you to all types of the d evices. Another thing, in the picture of the scooter from the target websit e, the slot cut in the tube doesn't line up with the opening in the clamp. So the clamping effect would be not at its best. Pat

for anyone else that stumbles on this:

bike seat clamps, though they are the same size (31.8mm), are stepped. that is, they're designed to keep a bike seat in place by pinching harder at th e top of the clamp, then less at the bottom. this would possibly be worse t han the razor slipping, as it could cause a failure in the aluminum tube th at they use. so, that's a no go.

i opted for the "pro" 4 screw solution from their site. we'll see if it hel ps. i also used some blue loctite, but it's ineffective, as the threads don 't really even screw together. most of the problem is that the clamp and bo lt are cheap, and it's under-engineered. the bolt is also notoriously easy to strip. here's hoping that the new clamp is better.

type in collar clamp in a search, that should get you to all types of the devices. Another thing, in the picture of the scooter from the target webs ite, the slot cut in the tube doesn't line up with the opening in the clam p. So the clamping effect would be not at its best. Pat

If that is a "Beast Pro" (or "pro beast") the clamp you mention seems to clamp the hollow handle bar riser to the steering tube of the front fork. Which is not that much different than a 1-1/8" bicycle steering system. Without actually seeing the thing I suspect that it may be a matter of trying to clamp a hollow tube to another hollow tube. which for some reason the bicycle world gets away with :-)

One solution would be to assemble the thing as the driver wants it to be, clamping it all together with the normal clamp and than drilling a hole through the handle bar steering tube, fork steering tube and clamp and install a bolt. If you have a taper reamer and some taper pins that would be even better as there would be no chance that the pin/bolt would wear the hole larger.

The repair I made in 2013 that prompted my post which you just replied to has held since then. I used red locktite for that.

Elijah

------ the scooter still gets used, even