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Old 02-22-11, 08:06 AM
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Zef
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This is not a recommendation to ride a structurally damaged fork but if you think that the gouges are just in the outer layer of carbon then you can sand the area smooth, including the paint around that general area of the fork and then lay on some new carbon fiber cloth and resin. There is a youtube video demonstrating repair of carbon fiber tubing/fishing poles that demonstrates wrapping the still wet area with some kind of heat shrink wrapping to help squeeze/form/and set the resin/carbon repair.

If you have any question whether the fork is structurally sound or not then you should not be asking questions about it...there is nothing anyone will be able to tell you definitively either way about your fork from pictures and you would need special equipment to conduct non-destructive testing to confirm if there is any underlying damage that may affect the structural integrity of the fork.

But...if you think it is just really bad cosmetic damage the patch will be ugly but is often much stronger than the unrepaired fork if done correctly due to the extra layer of carbon.

-j
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