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Old 08-21-08, 07:59 PM
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You can't "fix" a carbon frame.

You need to understand that the glue only is there to hold the carbon together. It's the carbon itself that provides the strength. Once you bust too many fibers in any given area there is no way to restore the strength to that area with just glue or any other method short of wadding on an exterior "splint" of carbon and epoxy over the crack and extending well out in each direction and tapering back to the original sizes. And I can't think of many folks that would want to see a wart of this sort on a carbon race frame.

So while it is pretty to look at and I know you're drooling over the idea just walk away. Carbon frames are like Humpty Dumpty. Once they fall off that wall it's curtains......
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