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It appears to have held up. I rode for 80ish kilometers today (maybe 100), and it seems completely dry.
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It appears to have held up. I rode for 80ish kilometers today (maybe 100), and it seems completely dry.
Excellent!! Enjoy your trip, and make sure you post lots of pictures for us.
Just pull up the cap every once in a while and look for a puddle of fork oil on top of the seal.
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I have now gone 8-900 km, and its leaking again. Good thing I have an appointment at the shop on friday.
You can still try the steel wool.
Seriously, you should do that regardless. If the fork legs have much in the way of dings the new seals will before long. You need to knock the sharp edges off of them.
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You can still try the steel wool.
Seriously, you should do that regardless. If the fork legs have much in the way of dings the new seals will before long. You need to knock the sharp edges off of them.
Yeah, that makes sense.
But it feels smooth (maybe not in the top, but I don't think it ever bottoms out?).
If using steel wool, use finest steel wool.0000#grade Or not- try the gentlest first-use a polish like pumice based brasso or autosol .Chrome is harder than steel wool, but that first dulling of the sharp edges of the steel can nevertheless wear it and scratch it noticeably using coarser grades... (think:water wears stone-cutting lead with a steel chisel despite the steel being the harder, it'll dull the steel after some cuts.....)
Nicks that contact seals -yes, it's just the areas that slide that count, use a fine grit small wetstone on it's narrow edge to take them off. Again, use the softest grit that does the job, even if it takes longer.
I've got rubber boots on all my stanchions now.
Nicks that contact seals -yes, it's just the areas that slide that count, use a fine grit small wetstone on it's narrow edge to take them off. Again, use the softest grit that does the job, even if it takes longer.
I've got rubber boots on all my stanchions now.
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I think I know some of those words...
Wetstone like what you use to sharpen knives?
Stanchions?
I dont think steel wool comes in grades here...
Stanchions are the chrome tubes. For RUST, Steel wool comes in at least two grades everywhere I bet if you look for it. But again, try metal polish first.
For SCRATCHES and GOUGES use a "Sharpening" stone if you like. but try the fine ones. The ones you'll find easily are a "carborundum" material with two sides-coarse and fine. get a small stone so you can use it with precision but a single- grit stone is better because you can use it's edge rather then whole surface. Or you can wrap a block with "wetndry " sand paper. It doesn't stay sharp long but you just put fresh paper on.... as an aside, you can sharpen a knife this way too if the block used is hard and smooth..a sheet of glass can be a base to sharpen drill bits in a pinch!
Main thing is,for a SCRATCH start fine and in a small area-just the scratch, not the surroundings. you can even MASK around the area using plain masking tape as sacrifice for 'Out-of-bounds"
For SCRATCHES and GOUGES use a "Sharpening" stone if you like. but try the fine ones. The ones you'll find easily are a "carborundum" material with two sides-coarse and fine. get a small stone so you can use it with precision but a single- grit stone is better because you can use it's edge rather then whole surface. Or you can wrap a block with "wetndry " sand paper. It doesn't stay sharp long but you just put fresh paper on.... as an aside, you can sharpen a knife this way too if the block used is hard and smooth..a sheet of glass can be a base to sharpen drill bits in a pinch!
Main thing is,for a SCRATCH start fine and in a small area-just the scratch, not the surroundings. you can even MASK around the area using plain masking tape as sacrifice for 'Out-of-bounds"
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