You may recall that I posted a picture of my broken Daytona Speed master Large Wheel Brush. For some reason I cannot find the old post to link it here, sorry.
Here is the broken brush before:
Anyway I was going to re-order one of the sets yesterday from AG since they had a 25% off free freight no min deal out for New Years but they seems to be on backorder. I decided to fix the old brush as I use it for specific area the wheel woolies don't fit. Between the caliper and the barrel. I know I can roll the car forward and clean that area, but this is far easier.
This is my Second brush of this type. My first was the blue version, and the second was the Speed master version. Both suffer the same weakness just above the handle, and the only improvement I see in the Daytona over the blue one is that the plastic tip on the Daytona seems to stay on better.
So I fixed the brush with a tube of Loctite 2 Part Epoxy ( $ 3.97 @ HD), piece of pex tubing ($ 1.76 at HD), A 1 foot length of wire ( .28 a foot at HD), a drill w/thin bit and large bit, a vice and a pair of Needle nose pliers.
Here is a quick fix, that is cheap to do and not to hard. For under 7 bucks, U have a better than new brush that has the longer handle I always wanted. If you own a Daytona brush, yours will break eventually. I don't use this very often as it is only needed on 1 of my vehicles, the Wheel woolies are more durable and don't spatter when removed. They just don't fit in the tightest of areas as well.
I will report back after I have used it a few times.
By far the most difficult part was removing the wire stub that was embedded into the wooden handle. I drilled arount the wire with a very thin drill bit until I went around the whole wire. I then pulled the wire out with a pair of needle nose pliers,
Then with a larger drill bit I hollowed out the handle to accommodate the pex tubes larger diameter.
Here the pex Tubing was forced over the wire shaft, the 2 part epoxy was put into the tubing, then the reinforcing wire inserted until it met the wire stub. Excess epoxy wiped away. You can tell the epoxy is mixing and had reached the end by the heat on the tube.
All Done, Just Drying
Here is the broken brush before:
Anyway I was going to re-order one of the sets yesterday from AG since they had a 25% off free freight no min deal out for New Years but they seems to be on backorder. I decided to fix the old brush as I use it for specific area the wheel woolies don't fit. Between the caliper and the barrel. I know I can roll the car forward and clean that area, but this is far easier.
This is my Second brush of this type. My first was the blue version, and the second was the Speed master version. Both suffer the same weakness just above the handle, and the only improvement I see in the Daytona over the blue one is that the plastic tip on the Daytona seems to stay on better.
So I fixed the brush with a tube of Loctite 2 Part Epoxy ( $ 3.97 @ HD), piece of pex tubing ($ 1.76 at HD), A 1 foot length of wire ( .28 a foot at HD), a drill w/thin bit and large bit, a vice and a pair of Needle nose pliers.
Here is a quick fix, that is cheap to do and not to hard. For under 7 bucks, U have a better than new brush that has the longer handle I always wanted. If you own a Daytona brush, yours will break eventually. I don't use this very often as it is only needed on 1 of my vehicles, the Wheel woolies are more durable and don't spatter when removed. They just don't fit in the tightest of areas as well.
I will report back after I have used it a few times.
By far the most difficult part was removing the wire stub that was embedded into the wooden handle. I drilled arount the wire with a very thin drill bit until I went around the whole wire. I then pulled the wire out with a pair of needle nose pliers,
Then with a larger drill bit I hollowed out the handle to accommodate the pex tubes larger diameter.
Here the pex Tubing was forced over the wire shaft, the 2 part epoxy was put into the tubing, then the reinforcing wire inserted until it met the wire stub. Excess epoxy wiped away. You can tell the epoxy is mixing and had reached the end by the heat on the tube.
All Done, Just Drying
