On 9 May 2004 19:54:32 -0700,
[email protected] (Thomas Reynolds)
may have said:
>I'm asking for opinions. I have an unused Trek carbon fork with a
>CroMo steel threaded steering tube. It is unused because it was meant
>for a real small bike and the steering tube is very short.
>
>What is your opinion of taking a cutoff from another steel steering
>tube, welding it to the end of this one, grinding down the welds, and
>then cutting and threading it to fit one of my bikes?
Reality check: By the time you have all that done in a sufficiently
professional manner to produce an acceptable result, you'll have spent
how much? Bear in mind that the welding will have to be done by
someone who's damn good at it if you're going to avoid embrittlement
of the tube and potential cracking under stress, and it's not just the
external diameter that must be cleaned up if the fork will be used
with a quill stem; the *inside* will have to be bored straight as
well.
I'm not saying it's impossible. If you were going to convert it for
threadless usage and didn't care about the extra weight, I'd say that
sleeving the inside of the tube and welding both the old tube and the
new one to the sleeve might have a good chance of success, but that
would probably only work for a threadless setup. What you're
describing, however, strikes me as not a good idea.
I'd peddle the fork on eBay and spend the proceeds on a different one.
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