The thought crossed my mind. Ive never drilled through expensive steel before. I assume you'd go from the front? how do you not mess up those threads?
On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 3:10:38 PM UTC-7 Kainalu V. -Brooklyn NY wrote: > I'm a little confused and curious, having never seen a 6mm threaded hole > on the front of a fork crown, but assuming the fork's not built of > something other than metal, wouldn't it be so easy and satisfying to drill > out the threading and continue out of the back of the fork, enabling > "normal" use of that threaded mount? That way it would be easy to install, > and easy to remove when you want to sell it. > -Kai > > > On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 5:56:01 PM UTC-4 Drw wrote: > >> Ah. good point. This is a problem I hadn't thought through. Im not >> opposed to cutting, but being a perpetual rack switcher makes me think ill >> likely sell it, and a chopped off bolt wont make it too desirable. >> On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 2:50:00 PM UTC-7 Bill Lindsay wrote: >> >>> Drew >>> >>> I'm 98% sure that the bolt on the Nitto 32F is M6 x 1.0mm, which is >>> standard for virtually all M6 threads on bicycles, including cantilever >>> bosses, the larger rack bosses on some Rivs, seat bolts on Rivs, lots of >>> other things... >>> >>> Now, if you have a threaded M6 x 1.0mm hole in the front face of your >>> fork crown, then in principle you could thread that rack bolt into that >>> hole. At the moment you get it started, the rack will be out in front of >>> the fork about 1-1/2" too far out in front. As you thread it in the rack >>> will get closer to the fork. When the existing threads run out the rack >>> will still be sitting about an inch too far forward. Then what? Will you >>> just bend everything as much as you need to bend things to get the rack >>> legs to reach the fork? I think you would end up with something really >>> badly bent and contorted, won't be anywhere close to level, will have the >>> tombstone way farther away from the fork as ideal, and won't be 'tight' >>> threaded in that hole. You could handle the 'tightness' problem by backing >>> out the rack a few turns and leaving room for a locknut. That would solve >>> one of three problems and make the other two worse. >>> >>> Alternatively you could maybe get into the thread cutting game and try >>> to thread the rack bolt much further down its length. >>> >>> Bill Lindsay >>> El Cerrito, CA >>> >>> On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 2:11:01 PM UTC-7 Drw wrote: >>> >>>> Can someone confirm the size/threading of the bolt that goes into the >>>> fork crown on the nitto 32f? >>>> >>>> I have a fork with a hole tapped for M6 on the front end, but no hole >>>> on the back, so I'd need to thread it directly into that hole >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Drew >>>> >>> -- 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/4a1911bd-9f06-4c64-9949-a10f29af7b3dn%40googlegroups.com.
