PACE RC35, different styles...

[mikee]

good thread , really interesting

more history please tim

poolio get twiddling mate

 

[poolio]

Tim,

Appears I was talking rubbish... both have the rods (just like the image you put up)

How did I miss them what a knobber...

What's a spinny dropout...?!

 

[mikeekim89]

Basically..

Where the wheel fits onto your fork. The glue can go bad, making it come free of it's bond too the Carbon. Making it spin or fall off.. Making for a nice YBF video..

The entire silver piece at the bottom of the fork is the dropout.

 

[justbackdated]

^ you took the words out of my mouth

Spinny dropouts are quite common and can cause the fork to twist which can wreck the later XCS alloy brace which is also bonded on and can come unbonded too (the tube brace is a bit stronger). All usually fixable though.

I will post a pic of the original bonding jig set up later.

 

[mikeekim89]

I will post a pic of the original bonding jig set up later.

I might of got that bit right but I couldn't do that.

 

[poolio]

So this little thingy-ma-bob is just glued in there...

 

[mikeekim89]

Yup.

 

[justbackdated]

Jig of bondage

 

[poolio]

Looks like a nasty device to torture ill-behaved forks!

 

[justbackdated]

it used to go into an oven for full treatment!!

This is the last remaining RC35 bonding jig, all the others were skipped. It takes 3 forks after they were glued up and was then slid into an oven with about 8 other jigs to speed up the curing of the glue.