r32":3a963yy9 said:My recently-acquired B5 frame would love your F4 fork, if you ever decide to sell.
I saw your post earlier and knew i was risking it letting on But sorry, this ones never for sale. Moree chance of your frame coming to me than vice versa. If i could afford it and postage that is :shock:
I got it not long after joining RB and looking like this.
One spring missing completely,plus the collars naturally. EVERY pivot on the dampers spidered with minute cracking :facepalm: and of course both dampers leaking.
On the plus side the cracks ended on the pivots and were not anywhere important llike the dropouts.
Found an engineer willing to do the work as a lunchtime project(actually when i arrived at the engineers there was a Kona in the workshop that belonged to one of them so i knew then i had a good chance of the work being done.
The owner hadnt ever seen Amp Research stuff and was blown away and jumped at the chance to work on it, and i guess during he would look with interest at how it works from a cyclists view and that of a professional engineer.
That chap made some job of all the pivots(just replaced the lot) new oil bearing bushings, the works.
He also made a jig that when used with a bench vice makes for preloading the spring to adjust it and moving the collars and keeper wires a real easy job. So easy i laugh at the threads asking how to do it
I had the springs wound at another wee engineering works with about 4 staff, they charged me £20 to make two springs identical to the single i got with it.
Then i sold it and then i regretted ever selling it and started a begging thread for the chap who bought it that i really wanted it back eventually after about 3 years finally managed It wont be leaving me again So sorry.
Made a good job of it But apparently one of the dampers is weeping slightly. An old 0 ring i think :?
Sorry for teasing you with it