"Ride-A-Lot" wrote in message
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Phil, Squid-in-Training wrote:
The magnesium lowers of my 2003 Manitou Skareb Comp had begun to crack
last
year, about 6 months before I stopped riding it. I've kept it stashed
away
for a while until today, when I was cleaning my room and found the
lowers.
I gave the legs a light (maybe 2.5-4lb) squeeze, and they snapped.
Although
I didn't mean to snap them, they lent some interesting insight into
their
failure.

snip extensive research

Dude, way too much analytical time on your hands! You forgot to do a
gas chromatograph test on the magnesium dust. That should give you the
exact compound ingredients.

If that happened to me, I wouldn't waste time analyzing it. I'd just
buy a new fork and ride.


That's a pretty lackadaisical attititude towards something as important as a
front fork. I quit working at Answer when they had two rounds of recalls
around 1994. I saw a couple of pictures of riders' faces after their forks
catastrophically failed. They weren't pretty.

GT

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