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Re: [ST] Metallurgy
- Subject: Re: [ST] Metallurgy
- From: Nathan Maher <nate@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:06:54 -0400
Rich,
I'm no metallurgist either but I sense that you're not wrong about this
particular material. One, the lever having been permanently bent is
already weakened. Two, the heating and re-bending of the lever will most
likely further weaken the lever at that point. I don't know enough about
the actual compositional makeup of the lever to speculate about how much
it was weakened or how it might react to further heating and bending.
Would it ever fail, I don't know. But for my money I'd just replace the
damaged part and never have to think about it again. It'd be a pretty
bad day when you went to grab a fist full of brake in an emergency only
to have the lever snap off in your hand :(.
Nate
00SprintRS
Masiak, Richard wrote:
I'm no metallurgist. But, won't heating and bending it (or any piece of metal
for that matter) affect/change the internal crystal/grain structure of
the metal
probably making it weaker than it was originally? Especially a soft
metal like
the brake lever?
Rich
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