USE rigid forks

[ajantom]

Having a bit of a 'mare with these forks, and was wondering if anyone had any experience of them.......



The left leg has rotated about 2-3 degrees anticlockwise, so when I put the wheel in and do up the skewer the wheel is rotated slightly and isn't straight in the dropouts.

The top of the leg has a 10mm allen bolt, but try as I might I can't loosen it (I've used a lot of force/leverage, and I'm scared I'm going to damage it!) I've also tried heating the area first, but to no avail.

Am I doing anything wrong? Is it maybe an opposite thread on there? Anything else obvious?

Cheers :?

 

[Grannygrinder]

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USE customer service is very good, maybe drop them an e-mail?

 

[dyna-ti]

With allioy ,heating it would be a bad idea,its not steel and can be affected by heat making that area brittle
Advice-Try soaking it in paraffin[very similar to plusgas] or try bruno turbo
http://www.bikester.co.uk/bicycle-equip ... urbo-spray

 

[kaysee]

Do the legs have notches just below where they enter the crown? I had a very early set of the suspension forks using the same type of crown, and the legs could be unscrewed downwards using a hooked tool, which I still have here.

 

[ajantom]

Nope, no notches.

Not sure if they'll be able to give advice on dismantling a nearly 20 year old set of forks, but I'll try them.

I haven't heated them that much - no blowtorches, etc - certainly not enought to effect the heat treating :shock: Only with hot water and hot air to see if it would loosen any loctite or similar that might be on the threads.

 

[Grannygrinder]

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I think/hope you'll be pleasantly surprised
After speaking with them they replaced some parts on my antique sus seatpost FOC

 

[mikee]

if the bolt head has radial lines on it it will be a lh thread
but i doubt it on these ,try the use folk first

 

[jax13]

I haven't heated them that much - no blowtorches, etc - certainly not enought to effect the heat treating :shock: Only with hot water and hot air to see if it would loosen any loctite or similar that might be on the threads.

like throwing a deckchair off the titanic matey!

a 'proper' heatgun is the bare minimum for expanding the metal enough to loosen a fast bolt. anything less and the bolt is merely tricky.