Yea.....it is a bummer and you are correct after I thought about it, maybe Nitto could use the feedback to improve the apparent weak spot at the point where it is brazed. Maybe a larger fillet or higher temp brazing. Do they use silver or brass on these I wonder?
On Mar 8, 12:36 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 10 years, you are right; #1 was 10 years old. No. 2, now that I think more > clearly, is only 5 years old, as it was purchased for my delivered March '03 > Curt Custom. Still, that's six years ... but not many miles, since the Curt, > as a derailleured gofast, didn't get ridden that much, until I converted it > into a fixed commuter. > > Still, ok, I get the message. Since I can get elegant VO cages for sub $20, > I'll not bother. Still, both Nitto cages broke at the same place: where the > wires are brazed to the top mounting plate, at the top seam. I'll use #3 on > the gofast until it breaks, then go with VO. > > I replaced the fancy Nittos on the Curt Commuter with $15 or whatever old > fashion French style ss cages from VO, and I think those will be much more > long lived. > > Both > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:11 AM, charlie <charles_v...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Ten years? I'd say that is pretty good for a hard use product. Those > > skinny wires don't allow much surface area for brazing but it would be > > a simple fix that nearly any frame builder could do in ten minutes. I > > suppose a new one could be provided but holy cow!........how do you > > account for ten years of use? Maybe pro rate it at $2.50 a year and > > credit you for $25 bucks!? > > I don't know many companies that would give a twenty year replacement > > warranty or even a ten year one. Maybe you could get a local welding > > shop or trade school to fix them for $10. I remember one of our > > welding shop lessons in high school included forging and brazing our > > own hay hooks. It was easy to do. > > > On Mar 7, 5:36 pm, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > > > 10 years would be a pretty long warranty for a $50.00 product. Nitto > > > being Japanese may just feel it right to stand by the product. > > > > I am not engineer, but to my eyes the King design while perhaps less > > > elegant is more robust. > > > > On Mar 7, 6:11 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:08 PM, James Valiensi <valie...@mac.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi,10-years old! Have you heard about metal fatigue? > > > > > How many miles? > > > > > Cheers! > > > > > 9.3K. But it's a Nitto, and I want to hold them to it. I expect that a > > $15 > > > > King would still be whole. And it's the *second* one. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
