Hi all, i have a pair of fox talas 36s on my 5 that i had a bit of a incident in july on this year, the result being about 3 sets of scratches to my l/h fork inner, they are not completely hideous, but they are substantial enough to be able to feel with your finger.I was wondering if anyone had ever filled them with anything,like liquid metal or jb weld or even super glue? then carefully flatted the area down with wet and dry to eliminate any crap being dragged into the seals? They are not leaking anything as yet, and they have been ridden quite a few times since the big off, i was gonna just sell them as they are, and buy some revs but they are a good fork, and it would be a shame to let them go really, they are a 2007 model but bought new off a mate early this year,and were absolutely mint before this. any help gratefully received. many thanks, si.
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HELP! Anyone succeeded in filling deepish scrapes in their fork legs?
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Posted 7 months ago #
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Not scratches but I successfully fixed these forks with some nail varnish and some sandpaper. They were leaking quite a bit of oil but they are fine now and have been working nicely for a while.
TBH even if you don't do the fix you might as well just run them into the ground, they will carry on working well for a good while IMO, if you keep topping up the oil etc.
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cheers dude, how the hell did you manage to do that to your fork??? good job mate!
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I strongly suspect it was due to using a Neoguard, which seems to fling up loads of shite off the wheel onto that area around the seals. I only had them for about a year before they ended up like that - it did include a week in the Alps doing the Mega though, and it was very dusty out there.
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I repaired some fairly deep scratches/gouges on my old RS revs. Took a few days. Apply nail varnish, allow to dry, apply, dry etc. Then sand down using wet and dry.
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Be careful with the sanding though. I was a little over enthuiastic and you could see a larger area of the stanchion where the coating was wearing a bit thin
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if the scratches are small, use expoxy resin. wipe on with a hard, flat edge like a plaster spatula to fill the gouged area and get it as flat as possible before hardening. then use wet + dry very carefully, using a block rather than just your fingers, take your time and do as small a section as possible - ie just the epoxy if you can.
i've done this to a couple of forks and ended up with a stanchion as smooth as it started, lasted fine too.Posted 7 months ago #
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