Originally Posted by
Bad Lag
Great work! Even looks good.
To me, it looked as though the crack went all the way thru the outer shell. Apparently, I assumed too much. That the shell was still in one piece (or could be made whole again) was essential to a successful repair.
An interesting thread for me.
Gratz!
Thanks!
Understood - and I totally agree. That's why I added the detailed photos and write-up; I figured the early pics probably didn't tell the story very well. I feel very lucky that the main shell didn't suffer any cracks; if it had, I'd have erred on the side of caution and retired it - wouldn't want a failure that might result in some half-arsed vasectomy (as another BF wit suggested in an earlier post).
Apparently this failure isn't all that uncommon with the early versions of this saddle. Later models had a different - and one assumes, more reliable - anchoring system at the nose.
Glad this thread was interesting; and hopefully informative as well. Perhaps somebody else might have a similar failure years from now, dust off this thread, and get their fix, too.
DD