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Trick To Repair Fork Tube Scratch?
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[QUOTE="SteveTroi, post: 1178623, member: 74104"] Well my son continued to ride his YZ250 after one of the front fork guards broke off, and sure enough now he has a nice little scratch on the chrome inner tube. Its high up enough to run in and out of the seal, and soon after started leaking. We're breaking down the forks now to change the seals and clean them up a bit. My question is how can we repair this without sending them out for expensive re-chroming? The're not dented or dinged, just lightly scratched. We already started polishing the spot with jeweler's rouge and its helping a bit but I think we really need to fill the slight void that the scratch has made, or sure enough the seal will blow soon again. We're trying to think of a substance that will stick to the metal and that we can polish into the scratch to make it smooth again. Has anyone solved one like this before. I'm thinking of trying a light dab of clear metal epoxy to fill the scratch and then polish it more as the epoxy begins to dry - this might produce a smooth transition area for the seal to slide. The scratch couldn't be more than .3mm but I know it will mess with the new seal. Any other ideas? Thanks!! [/QUOTE]
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