Thank you, Steve. With abandon, Patrick
On Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 8:04:14 PM UTC-6, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > Fender failure from stress. > On 7/11/20 9:33 PM, 'Deacon Patrick' via RBW Owners Bunch wrote: > > Understood, Steve. Thank you for the reminder. I'd presumed I might need > to also adjust the stays. When you say "deadly wrong way," are you talking > fender failure, or something else? > > With abandon, > Patrick > > On Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 4:46:28 PM UTC-6, Steve Palincsar wrote: >> >> Just be careful of one thing. DO NOT attempt to adjust fender line by >> pulling on the fender struts. >> >> Yes, that's how you do it with plastic fenders. Doing it with aluminum >> fenders is the kiss of death. >> >> You adjust the fender line (i.e., the arc of the fender and how its curve >> matches up with the curve of the wheel) by spreading out or squeezing >> together the edges of the fender. Pulling the edges out decreases the >> radius of the curve of the fender, while squeezing the edges together >> increases the radius. >> >> I'm sure I'm belaboring what you've been told before, but there's a >> reason. The right way with the plastic fenders most of us are most used >> to is the deadly wrong way with aluminum fenders. >> >> As for "pilfering" ideas -- that's why they're put out there, so we can >> learn from them. There's no :theft" here; not even "folk process." >> >> > -- > Steve Palincsar > Alexandria, Virginia > USA > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/113cc863-e639-4e8e-96f7-20b4b3ec68fco%40googlegroups.com.
