Fork Re infocement droping out...

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AX3D

Member
Yeah, its really annoying I've tried everything I can possible think of, hot glue, shoving a rag down there, liquid nail and it just wont stay in place, it keeps droping down and touching the wheel.

So what do you use to keep your re enforcement in?
Thanks.
 
honga

honga

Steel Member
just pull it out and give it a long talk about safety and you......
and a lecture on wheel dynamics and the chemistry of polyurethane.....it will never come out again
 
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gorrilaman

Member
Lol at Ethan. Funny what you said but might be a bad time to joke. Anyway.... I don't care.

What do you use to reinforce your fork? If you use a piece of metal from your handle bar ( Travis House mod ) , heres what you might want to do.

1) Make sure its long enough to more or less reach the end bottom of the fork. Bottom meaning the place where the black cap use to be. Make sure it is not too low that 110mm wheels touches it.

2) put masking tape and tape the reinforcement. You can try put double sided tape at one end of the reinforcement. Put as much as you want. You can also just make the entire reinforcement double sided taped.

3) Shove that mofo in hard!!! Lol. You can put it in the freezer for a night or something so that it contracts and makes the shoving in easier. Hammer it in if it cannot go in. MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAMMER THE THREADS OF THE FORK OR ELSE... YOU WILL BECOME LIKE ME AND THAT OLD FORK.

4) At the bottom of it , put hot glue so that it does not drop. You know what I mean? After all the hot glue , sand off stupid sticking out hot glue and make it nice and clean.

You can have a longer reinforcement piece. It helps somehow.

Talk on MSN if you don't understand.
 
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Brian Boston

I got myself banned.
In the video travis made he put tape around it and smacked it in... like everyone else said. Do that, should work
 
the_SD_local

the_SD_local

I own SR.
OGCÃ?Æ?Ã?â??Ã?â??Ã?¢Ã?Æ?Ã?¢Ã?¢ââ?¬Å¡Ã?¬Ã?â?¦Ã?¾Ã?Æ?ââ?¬Å¡Ã?â??Ã?¢ Derek said:
Yeah, its really annoying I've tried everything I can possible think of, hot glue, shoving a rag down there, liquid nail and it just wont stay in place, it keeps droping down and touching the wheel.

So what do you use to keep your re enforcement in?
Thanks.
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Take a power drill and a self taping screw and drill the screw into the side of the fork down low in between where your headset cups would be. The self taping screw will bore through the side of your forks and into the reinforcement and hold it in place. You will most likely have to take a grinder and grind the head off the screw to get the forks back into your headtube without hitting.

No tape, no pounding, no glue just a screw.
 
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Pete Pachota

Member
Haha, I have the same problem with my internal bar, hard to make it not wooble. It's because its diameter is 25mm, while one inch is in fact 25,4mm. This little fraction of a milimeter makes it wooble.

the_SD_local said:
OGCÃ?Æ?Ã?â??Ã?â??Ã?¢Ã?Æ?Ã?¢Ã?¢ââ?¬Å¡Ã?¬Ã?â?¦Ã?¾Ã?Æ?ââ?¬Å¡Ã?â??Ã?¢ Derek said:
Yeah, its really annoying I've tried everything I can possible think of, hot glue, shoving a rag down there, liquid nail and it just wont stay in place, it keeps droping down and touching the wheel.

So what do you use to keep your re enforcement in?
Thanks.
Click to expand...
Take a power drill and a self taping screw and drill the screw into the side of the fork down low in between where your headset cups would be. The self taping screw will bore through the side of your forks and into the reinforcement and hold it in place. You will most likely have to take a grinder and grind the head off the screw to get the forks back into your headtube without hitting.

No tape, no pounding, no glue just a screw.
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I dont think so, if theres no FULL contact between the reinforcement and the inside of the fork it simply doesn't do its job. The only reasonable thing to do is to increase the diameter somehow, for example by duct taping it around.
 
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Eric Magray

Steel Member
i just make the top of the reinforcement bevel out a little bit, that way it cant fit though. usually by hitting it with a hammer before i put it in
 
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lloyd

Steel Member
put tape on the reinforcement and bolt your bars so they dont push down on it when you put weight on. Works for me.
 
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dre

Member
duct tape, and make sure that the reinforcement tube sticks up a bit out of the fork tube so that when you clamp the bars on the pressure will keep the reinforcement tube in place..
 
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