separating levers and calipers

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A few questions my esteemed gurus of restoration:

How do you remove the pivot pin in Tech 3 levers?

Can you get replacement pins to reassemble?

How does the pressed-in metal tensioning screw mount on the caliper get removed?

I need to remove these bits before my brakes can get anodized...

[martylaa]

good question which if anyone can help i'll be interested in seeing it done as i have a few of these need redoing

[CD17]

I wouldn't try 

But I did read somewhere that they can anodize by covering the steel pins with some tape 

[russ j]

tbh i would not remove the alloy rivit from your tech III's.I've not known of anyone who has done this so i don't thing it would be a good idea imo.

You can always get CCA (I assume its Paul that you are sending them to ?) to try & 'cover up' the rivit head on both sides proir to annodising,but tbh the area is that small it would be a ballache to cover up.The best thing to do is to get the whole lever annodised and when you get them back cover up the lever just leaving the rivit visible and try some autosol to remove the annodise off the rivit head,but then again this would be very fiddly and awkward.

I have had a couple of sets of tech III's re-annodised and i've just left the rivit the colour as it is:





Russ....

[southern andy]

I was the same as above on my Tech 3's when they were done by Custom colour.


When they arrived back in the post i just masked off all the way around the pin and they used a tiny artists brush and oven prided the pin obviously being very careful not to get it anywhere else.

Finished with a polish of the pin and the job was a good'un.

[GTnumber1]

there was someone on here ages ago that was selling the pins and he had a  specail tool made, cant remember who it was thoe, wish i bought some 


if the bike is for show just grind the back of the rivet till you can get it out and it will always go back in, that way you can polish the hell out of it 

[Glynnyboy]

I was the same as above on my Tech 3's when they were done by Custom colour.


When they arrived back in the post i just masked off all the way around the pin and they used a tiny artists brush and oven prided the pin obviously being very careful not to get it anywhere else.

Finished with a polish of the pin and the job was a good'un.

Any pics of your success Andy?

[dancti]

I was the same as above on my Tech 3's when they were done by Custom colour.


When they arrived back in the post i just masked off all the way around the pin and they used a tiny artists brush and oven prided the pin obviously being very careful not to get it anywhere else.

Finished with a polish of the pin and the job was a good'un.

Hi,

so does oven pride remove anodising well? As I was trying to find a way to remove the anodizing to reveal the speedlines on a set of redone ukai speedlines where they are filled in?

Cheers Dan 

[animal]

It was me  still got over 300 rivets  thats how many I bought and only done a couple of levers  Let me know if u want some rivets  no worries  I was also working on a solution 4 removing the quick release mecanism, but I got side tracked by my bloody collection of MRD's  Will solve it 1 day honest 

[HARORIDER]

come on animal pull ya finger out

[animal]

Just have  now de-flating