• Ha, I could probably muddle through it but I thought brake springs needed to be heat tempered? Think thats beyond my kitchen counter tooling.

    Unless I can find a source of Tektro spares I'm just going to hold out to see if I can fettle the DC springs

  • I thought brake springs needed to be heat tempered?

    You might be right, I've often thought about trying to make some but seem to always have managed to find something to fit so haven't tried...yet.

  • I thought brake springs needed to be heat tempered? Think thats beyond my kitchen counter tooling.

    Getting the right steel to spring temper isn't beyond the reach of home gamers. There's plenty of advice in the gun-smithing world, those people are constantly making replacement springs for things which haven't been manufactured for over a century.