Subject: Re: bad forks?
Author: Mike
Date: Mar 21, 2004, 5:32 AM
Post ID: 1716356264
Cut your loss....buy new tubes(from any one of the dealers listed on my
website or even Forking by Frank).....good luck...
EldoMike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Jones" <mjon-@yahoo.com>
To: <MGcon-@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 5:09 PM
Subject: bad forks?
Hi, all. I really need some advice, so I am mailing
this to both my lists. I bought some used fork tubes
from a shop that sells used bike parts. When I ordered
I asked the guy several times about the condition of
the forks - I made it clear that I don't want to buy
used if I am going to get something worn out. He
assured me that the forks would be in good condition.
I believed him.
The forks are here. One has a small chip in it where
the oil seals ride. The other has a quarter-inch
square of vanishing chrome - ie, you can see the steel
starting to show through the chrome, again where the
oil seals ride. Both tubes have other very small
blemishes in the oil seal area. They guy denies that
they are worn out, but I fear that if I put my new oil
seal on the tube with the chip it will be leaking
before my next state inspection, and that use will
cause the vanishing chrome on the other tube to finish
vanishing. However, my experience with this is limited
- I am not a mechanic.
They guy positively will not refund my money, but he
has agreed to send me different tubes IF I pay to ship
these back to him and IF he decides they are too warn
out to use. (To me it seems as though he has changed
his song from "there good" to "there good enough to
use," but I'll let that go.) I am definitely afraid
that this senior fellow will get my tubes and either
not see the problems (week vision, perhaps) or will
say "hey, what did you want for used parts?"
So my question is: how bad to tubes have to be to be
considered worn out? Should I just install these and
see how long they last? Or will that chip eat my oil
seal right up, and will that chrome vanish?
Man, I wish I had just sprung for new tubes. Once
again my stinginess comes back to haunt me.
-Mike (69 ambo, 77 vert)
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M.Jones, student of philosophy and religion at Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA.
"The heart has its reasons which reason does not know." -Blaise Pascal
"With man, instinct and reason avoid each other with adversity, yet, by
repudiating each other they lure each other to reach mutual
correction." -Lucian Blaga
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