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Nurse Julie:
Also, if you went out and bought replicas, you would still have to strip and rebuild.

DaveB:
Well, you're all correct of course except there was quite a lot of huffing and puffing dismantling them and I think re-assembling them will be a lot easier. I've never come across such over-tightened bolts and fork caps in my life - thank God for my impact driver. Both 8mm Allen bolts in the bottom were way over-tightened, one so much that the copper washer had been deformed and pressed into the fork casing. Had to do some micro surgery to remove the washer.

I've decided to buy new tubes after all but this will give me the opportunity to get the originals re-chromed at a later date if the replacements are completely naff.

Thanks for the pointers as always :)

Trigger:
I did post a picture on here some time a go of what the repro ones look like after some years.
Philpots will do the top caps FOC when they do stanchions and you will see them while riding  ;)

AshimotoK0:

--- Quote from: Trigger on July 18, 2017, 12:35:55 PM ---I did post a picture on here some time a go of what the repro ones look like after some years.
Philpots will do the top caps FOC when they do stanchions and you will see them while riding  ;)

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I agree my Z650B1 ones they did yonks ago were superb .. they had some top nuts at Stafford last year though and I thought they looked a bit ropey .. chrome was OK but visible pit marks still in them. I appreciate that this is a very difficult part to have re-chromed though ...that's why I always try to find NOS or new if not discontinued.

I bought my K0 fork tubes from Yamiya and they assured me that they were made in Japan, not Italy. Anyone have any experience of Yamiya ones? All I can say is that they are not chromed at the very bottom, which is correct and the DS (Italian made) ones are incorrect in that region.

Dave ..I agree with JamesH ..those tubes look reasonable in the clamped regions.

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