I broke the lower cage to my xtr carbon cage and can’t seem to find a replacement with out buying a whole new deruailr
by tacoseller16
I broke the lower cage to my xtr carbon cage and can’t seem to find a replacement with out buying a whole new deruailr
by tacoseller16
9 Comments
I’d look for a second hand one to replace the cage but how the hell do you break that?
Here is a link to the m-9100 with part numbers. The cage is available just takes some time to locate one, there’s a lot on eBay. Personally I bought one directly through my LBS just to be sure. I swapped my sgs to gs cage so I could get a bit more ground clearance and run a 10-45 cassette.
https://dassets.shimano.com/content/dam/global/cg1SHICCycling/final/ev/ev/EV-RD-M9100-4387D.pdf
IIRC it can be replaced with the XT one for SIGNIFICANT cost savings, if the minimal weight savings there aren’t that important to you.
Why can’t you just bond it back together?
Give it a good clean with some alcohol and then slap some epoxy on… good as new for almost free.
Superglue would be fine too if you use the activator.
I had a sram carbon cage on my speccy demo back in 2012 or so. Broke a massive chunk out in Basically the same spot… sanded it smooth and ignored it. Never caused me an issue. I believe I had to replace the jockey wheel as that went awol in the same “adventure” – long time ago now.
I would probably just use some form of appropriate bonding agent and then forget about it. As others have said it’s not structural at that point.
Cool bro. Get a new one
Upgrade to Xt, it’s more durable anyway
You could repair it with high strength epoxy resin, you could even add some reinforcement by adding some carbon fibre mat . Just saying
Repair or substitute for an XT. Repairing involves cleaning, degreasing with acetone, glueing with MMA or better with epoxy adhesive, and overlapping with a wet lay up of cf tape + epoxy. A bit involved but doable, there are may tutorials on YT, perhaps EasyComposites’ are the best.