Hi

I have marked the fork slider on my fork leg causing the seals to leak, i have been quoted

See if the chroming company can do black chrome. If not the best bet is to get it anodised, your local garage will have contacts that can do it, should cost around

Shercoman... Anodizing is for aluminum.

Do you need to replace the whole leg?... i have taken a very fine honing stone to a similar scratch and slowly honed it off. Slowly!. Then i have filled the scratch with a hard paint (black in your case) or two pack epoxy glue. You should let this set for a couple of days, then hone or sand it flat. When you are done rotate the leg in the clamp so it is inside and hard to see.

Just ring a plating specialist in the yellow pages.... they'll know who can repair your leg.

Ralphy

Shercoman... Anodizing is for aluminum.

Do you need to replace the whole leg?... i have taken a very fine honing stone to a similar scratch and slowly honed it off. Slowly!. Then i have filled the scratch with a hard paint (black in your case) or two pack epoxy glue. You should let this set for a couple of days, then hone or sand it flat. When you are done rotate the leg in the clamp so it is inside and hard to see.

Just ring a plating specialist in the yellow pages.... they'll know who can repair your leg.

Ralphy

I thought they were aluminium, read on a spec page somewhere that they were anodised black!

Hi Ian,

As Ralph suggested, if the ding in the stanchon is not too bad, you can dress up the burr's with a fine stone and fill in the ding with araldite or similar. You may have scored the top bush too, worth a check. I don't think the 06 Beta had aluminium stanchons, don't they have Paioloi's with steel stanchons?

Bye, PeterB.

Gents

Many thanks for all your help, i have tried to dress and fill the fork legs with no luck.

It seems they will have to be hard chromed and stay silver.

The best i have found in nitraite coatings is gold in colour and at