gadget Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Hi I have marked the fork slider on my fork leg causing the seals to leak, i have been quoted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shercoman2k8 Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzralphy Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzralphy Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shercoman2k8 Posted March 7, 2009 Report Share Posted March 7, 2009 I thought they were aluminium, read on a spec page somewhere that they were anodised black! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterb Posted March 7, 2009 Report Share Posted March 7, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadget Posted March 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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