Re: [ST] Metallurgy

[Nathan Maher <nate@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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