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JustcallmeMrT:

--- Quote from: trigger6969 on August 31, 2014, 09:49:01 PM ---Left is your left hand as you sit on the bike. I have a good left fork case when you are requiring a right one. Am i right?

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Yes, my left one is the cracked one, it's the right fork case I need.  Maybe ebay will prove useful.

JustcallmeMrT:

--- Quote from: matthewmosse on August 31, 2014, 09:50:15 PM ---Pretty sure on my bike it was the left side one that lost a big chunck. I would be wary of welding on brake mounts without x ray to check it is good right to the root, maybe over the top but a small crack at the root of a welded joint can proporgate and grow -I never did welding on alloy but when learning welding at collage, destructive testing of welds really made you realise how a tiny flaw in the form of poor root fusion could grow and snap a weld that was thicker than the parent material. I know nothing of these low temp alloy fusion methods so am happy to stand corrected.

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I'll definitely have to look into it further.  I have no desire for a bodged braking system.  Thanks for the insight!

Any chance you still have the good right fork?

Bryanj:
Way back when I saw lots of bikes with that sort of crack, as long as the big bolt and the other small bolt are good a repair will be fine

UK Pete:
Great bike Mr T ,  a real bargin by the looks of it ,  good luck with restoration
pete

matthewmosse:
Apologies, I just looked again and its the small bolt hole you have fractured, probably be fine with alloy welding, for some reason I had it in my head it was the big un that had cracked, probably because on mine it was the big bolt lug. I am bound to still have the forks in question and if needed can dig them out and sell you the spare lower leg provinding it passes muster, ie no stripped threads etc. One word of warning though, with so many project machines I am inclined to take an age to find bits or even forget why I went out to the shed and get distracted by rusty things so may need reminding.

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