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Chain Stay Protectors
STAY WRAPStay Wrap is a plastic chain stay cover that resembles the covers used over automobile wire harnesses. It comes as a single piece that is 22 1/2" long. Stay Wrap protects the entire chain stay from scratches and muffles noise from chain slap. It's easy to install because it doesn't use zip-ties, or glue. You just coil it around your chain stay. It will fit nearly any size stay in both diameter and length, and is also sun and water resistant. It weighs roughly 1 gram per inch. Black only. $ Price in Catalog
SHIMANO SHARKFIN CHAIN DEFLECTORThis 6.5 gram piece of resin keeps the chain from jamming between the chainstay and your tire. It isn't uncommon, if your freewheel or cassette system has some dirt or grime in it, for the chain to roll forward, off the cog, because the freewheel/freehub isn't spinning freely enough. The chain then folds up and jams, preventing the cranks or wheel from working. This deflector prevents the chain from loading into that trouble area and at the same time, acts as a chainstay protector so paint isn't chipped off your frame. Black, made in Japan. $ Price in Catalog
WTB CHAINSTAY PROTECTORExtra thick, noise dampening and durable. The WTB chainstay Protector will quiet chainslap and protect your frame. These are Black 3M adhesive-backed rubber Chainstay Protectors. Wilderness Trail Bikes conceived of the adhesive backed rubber chainstay protector some years back. They are still the only rubber stay protectors available with special noise dampening rubber, in a double thickness (1.5mm). WTB Chainstay Protectors stay on the frame well in all weather conditions and can be removed easily without solvent. It weighs 5 grams. $ Price in Catalog STAY TUFF CHAINSTAY / BIKE PROTECTORStay Tuff is a bike protection kit, that includes a vinyl chainstay protector and six 3/4" diameter clear vinyl dots, and an alcohol impregnated pad. The Chainstay protector is a Black vinyl that is self adhesive strip. At 10 1/2" long it will protect your paint and eliminate some chain slap. The self-adhesive Clear dots are to be placed on other points of contact on your bike, like where your pump touches, or under the cable housing at the stops on the down tube. The included alcohol is to clean the frame prior to sticking them on your frame. $ Price in Catalog |
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In-depth Information About Metals Aluminum Aluminum is extracted electrolytically from bauxite ore. It is made by the electrolysis of aluminum oxide which is found in larger concentrations within bauxite ore. Bauxite is a mixture of the hydroxides of aluminum, together with other impurities such as oxides of iron, titanium, and silicon. Bauxite is produced by the weathering and change of aluminum silicate rocks usually found in tropical and semitropical regions where climate has produced an accelerated weathering process. Bauxite is not a rare ore and is widely available in the US, the Caribbean, and Europe. Approximately 4 pounds of read the full article... Beryllium Beryllium is a specialty metal that is steel-grey metal in color, with an extremely low density, making it very light weight. At 1.85 grams to the cubic centimeter, its density compares to that of magnesium. It is also a high strength metal, making it possible to design light weight, thin membered parts with ahigh stiffness. A column made of beryllium to support a load placed directly downward on top of it, will have a greater load carrying capacity, and be lower in weight than any other metal of equal size. Until the 1950's beryllium was used read the full article... Titanium The element titanium was discovered in 1763 by an English cleric, William Gregor who was an amateur chemist with an inquiring mind. It was in the black sands of Cornwall that he discovered the new element that had up to that time, attracted little scientific interest. A few years later, an Austrian, Klaproth, extracted the same element from an ore widely known as "rutile", which is a mineral consisting of titanium dioxide (one titanium atom, two oxygen atoms), that is a reddish-brown substance with a slight metallic luster. While rutile is the highest grade read the full article... Metallurgic Hardness Testing There are three types of tests used with accuracy by the metals industry,they are the Brinell hardness test, the Rockwell hardness test, and the Vickers hardness test. Hardness is the property of a metal which gives it the ability to resist being permanently deformed (bent, broken, or have its shape changed), when a load is applied. The greater the hardness of the metal, the greater resistance it has to deformation. Since the definitions of metallurgic ultimate strength and hardness are rather similar, it can generally be assumed read the full article... |
