10-24-2016 – Parking Brake Bracket

Saturday was spent wiping down the floor with wax & grease remover…  The stuff left me with a small burn – ouch!…

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Then I spent most of the morning figuring out how I was going to clamp the bracket to the floor.  Since I am using 3M panel bonding adhesive, I recalled a review where the guy suggested using magnets.  So after unsuccessfully using various welding magnets, off to Harbor Freight I went (not always have your coupons ready).  I bought a couple of 150 lb lifting capacity magnets:img_2258

By themselves, no problem…  I wanted to try to test with something between the magnet and bracket (for the adhesive)…  So I played around a little:img_2259

You can see part of the difficulty in that it isn’t a flat surface:img_2260

Not bad, but NOT strong either…img_2261

This is the bracket:img_2263

Still experimenting:img_2264 img_2265

Then I figured I would cut up the rag to loose some weight:img_2266 img_2267

So after a lunch break, I played with some scrap metal after applying the adhesive between the 2 pieces which was fairly strong:img_2268

This is the adhesive gun…  They suggest leaving it and removing the tip after it is dried.  Should be able to use within 2 weeks after opening.img_2269

Settled on the 2 magnets on top.  After applying the adhesive:  (the holes are from when I removed it from the original floor.  There is another hold in the middle for the cable to go through which I will have to drill out).img_2272

This is how much I used for those 2 small pieces.   Luckily I still have 2 more tubes of adhesive!img_2273 img_2274 img_2275

Need to leave it clamped for 6 hours and after 24 hours it should be good to go!

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