Death of a friend

[Drix]

Loaned her out to a friend last fall, apparently they cleaned it but forgot to put the washer back in before assembley. Took a bad slide into a bunker thisafternoon and came up with this...

[suaze]

Ouch. Looks fixable though so chin up. She just need to be pounded flat again.

[going_home]

Loaned her out to a friend last fall, apparently they cleaned it but forgot to put the washer back in before assembley. Took a bad slide into a bunker thisafternoon and came up with this...

Stop all that sliding stuff, its dangerous !

[knownothingmags]

bummer to see somthing like that happen.

but....

i would say you could fix it.
may not look pretty again,
but if the inside is milled out up where the forgrip slot is, which it of course seems it is, you could put a nice solid block of aluminum in the rail, and press or lightly tap/hammer lightly the torn out part back in place.
then take some nice .125'' carbon fiber plate and cut it out to fit the milled out section of your rail.

fit that now made peice of carbon fiber into the rail, and then take a marker or something and mark the forgrip slot and dremel or drill the slot out. this now added peice of carbon fiber should add the integrity you need.

of course this added carbon fiber is acting like a large washer, but now all the force of an accident like this one will distribute the force to the carbon fiber plate. should help and be a nice fix.

you could even put your old washer on the screw to add a little more dispersion of pressure to the plate.

if this seems like alot of work or just stupid, no biggy thought i would throw an idea out there for ya.

pm if this was not clear at all and i can send a video explaining what im talking about.

thanks,
KNM.
best of luck.
ive got the summer off so if you would like me to do it i can. throw me a pm.

[athomas]

The metal at that point looks really thin. It was a matter of time before it got bent anyway. It can be fixed. As mentioned, tap it back into place and reinforce it inside so that there is some structural strength to the area. Even if you fill some of the void in the rail with a layer of epoxy resin or some liquid metal of some sort, it will add significant strength.

[Drix]

I think what I'm going to do is get a block of scrap aluminium, mill it to fit in there, bang it out flat, then drill it on the Y and Z axis to bolt the new brick to the front of the frame and then put my cf grip on the bottom. Either that or I'm going to just buy a new rail and say f it all and get a shadow. I really wanted to keep this light as heck.