Originally Posted by
thumpism
There's probably only one CroMo tube in that frame, the seat tube. Fork is hi-ten. And, yes, it is bent.
The Schwinn catalog notes that the "main triangle" is cro-moly. In the case of a women's frame like this, I reckon that's the head tube, the seat tube, and both down tubes?
Originally Posted by
Insidious C.
If you decide to go shopping for a used fork, take the bent on with you. You will want to match up the length of the steerer tube pretty closely. Also check steerer I.D. and distance between ends (where the hub mounts).
Yes, roger this. The steerer tube length is about 7.1" from the base of the crown race to the top of the threads, which is exactly 180mm. It's a standard 1" OD, 7/8" ID steerer tube. I think I have ID'd a used Fuji fork with the correct dimensions online. The steerer tube on that fork is 7-5/8" long, so an extra 15mm perhaps? I should be able to add a few spacers between the headset's cone nut and the top lock nut to account for this small difference, right? Other than that, all the other dimensions appear correct, and the dropout spacing should be 100mm I'd think (though it wouldn't hurt for me to ask).
My fork also uses the 27.0" JIS crown race standard, but I imagine that a Fuji fork from this era will as well.