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06-27-2009, 12:44 PM
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Monkey
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my "new" boxxer is kaputt
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06-27-2009, 12:50 PM
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Mr. Big Hot Pastrami
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That isn't good at all, hope the warranty covers it.
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06-27-2009, 12:53 PM
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hey there, could you please upload the last picture in hi-res? i'd like to the fracture surface... that gonna tell you alot.
or even better, please take another closeup and upload somewhere in hi-res...
Last edited by BenP; 06-27-2009 at 12:58 PM.
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06-27-2009, 01:04 PM
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Monkey
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BenP
hey there, could you please upload the last picture in hi-res? i'd like to the fracture surface...
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It has "bubbles" that don't seem to have a corresponding filling counterpart on the other side of the fracture and the magnesium seems a bit to corny and therefore brittle. Any materials engineer out there thinks the same?
Here it is:
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Last edited by Yeti; 06-27-2009 at 01:40 PM.
Reason: got the materials wrong
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06-27-2009, 01:14 PM
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Monkey
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that zip tie just was too tight...sorry I have to say it! anyway I hope RS solves that quickly and w/o any cost to you....and it seems a very dangerous spot for a fork to fail w/o a crash so RS should check that asap! good luck...!
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06-27-2009, 01:34 PM
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Monkey
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Yeti
It has "bubbles" that don't seem to have a corresponding filling counterpart on the other side of the fracture and the MAGNESIUM seems a bit to corny and therefore brittle. Any materials engineer out there thinks the same?
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There i fixed it for you 
Oh im not a huge expert on this sorta thing so no comment 
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06-27-2009, 01:47 PM
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Turbo Monkey
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glad your ok yeti but fock buying a '10 boxxer . sure they look cool , but there's way too many horror stories about the '10 boxxer .
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06-27-2009, 01:52 PM
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Turbo Monkey
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Awesome....
Yeah I'm with dhmike on that one. That could be a cool fork if it weren't a SRAM product maybe.
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06-27-2009, 02:16 PM
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Monkey
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it does look very porous.hmmm it looks like a poor casting, it might have been 1 in a 1000 that it happened to. It shouldn't happen at all but sometimes in a high volume manufacturing process these things can occur. I am not sure what process SRAM uses for the casting of their lowers, but perhaps they should double check the results before they allow them to be sold...
on the positive side, good thing you are still alive and not too seriously hurt yeti...
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06-27-2009, 03:28 PM
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Monkey
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Dude, I hope you are ok yourself.
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06-27-2009, 04:20 PM
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Turbo Monkey
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Jesus...
Yeti - glad to hear you are OK and that this didn't happen on a steep/rough/rocky part of the track. I'm no materials engineer, but to have this happen in a bermed corner of all places...
I've seen first gen. FOX 40's snap in nearly the exact same location - but that was due to stresses induced from high speed hits such as hard bottom-out on landings.
Call SRAM, get someone's email in the tech. dept., and send them the hi-res pics - they will definitely want to see this.
EDIT: Have the serial number from your fork handy when you contact them.
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06-27-2009, 04:48 PM
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Turbo Monkey
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dhmike
glad your ok yeti but fock buying a '10 boxxer . sure they look cool , but there's way too many horror stories about the '10 boxxer .
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When will people learn not to buy 1st year Rock Shox products....
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06-27-2009, 04:51 PM
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Grasshopper
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Looks like it's snapped in the same place as Danice Uyesugi's fork when she crashed at La Bresse...
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06-27-2009, 07:02 PM
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Grasshopper
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soap stone!
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06-27-2009, 07:03 PM
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Turbo Fluffer
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Holy crap, a Boxxer with a snapped arch...... No way, that just isnt possible, Boxxers never break like that, never ever.
Seriously, just a thought, maybe not the best idea to post up yet untill after warranty issues have all been resolved.
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