I am going to not offer the carbon wrap service for the time being, as randall t has pointed out- I could get sued. I do believe I am doing this correctly, but one fell swoop and I could cause a stress-riser. I will offer this again after testing a different method to prepare stems for carbon-wrapping. Etching it mechanically does work well for bonding, but it COULD lead to something catastrophic. Further testing will show how well (or how bad) I really did.
I do believe in my method for the stems I have done, but not all of the stems I could work on might be quite as good as what I have worked on. There isn’t much of a quality control.
I have decided that maybe it’s not such a good idea to have a fleet of people being my R&D guys and girls. I will leave that to myself and a testing service. Please note that I have prototypes of handlebars with over well 5000 miles, as well as other modifications and repairs that have outlasted the original parts.
After testing a variety of mechanical and non-mechanical methods of etching, I will offer this service again. But at this time, thanks to randall pulling my head out of my bum, I am going to pull it back for now. But the service will be offered up once again.
There will be another product that I will sell in order to help out Tibbs that will not involve possible danger, or need tons of insurance.
Bunnyman Please do not think i was picking on you or trying to stop the flow of new ideas or stomping on a guy trying to have a small business, but i get real scared when a manufactured part gets modified,if you design into a piece then great,but in the day when enginners are pushing the strenth/weight area you might not have that extra 10 percent of over strenght built in. In my day when i was building frames and stems, i used my ass as testing, my first TT frame still gets ridden, built in 1987 it has seen a few National TT champs( just a shame i am slow) and countless TTs of all lengths and a few centurys all on a funny bike,the first stem is still on my Cannondale i ride almost everyday and was built in 1989 and has well over 150 000 miles on it still going strong,i no longer make stems,i got a little scared of what might happen if one failed even though i made over 60 and never had one failure, I am a big guy and have broken stuff (bought stuff) the last thing anyone needs is a seatpost up there butt or a handlebar or stem break,Even with being scared about things breaking i do still make aero bars,clip-ons and any thing that i can to save myself moneyRandall
Dude, you got my head out of me bum.
I was just explaining to another person that I am going to research a better and gentler method of prepping the aluminium. I won’t know what stems people would have sent me. Probably the one that had scads of oxidation on the inside (which so many stems, even the “good” ones, don’t treat the inside of the stem) and was about fifteen years old would have failed using this method.
You haven’t stopped anything. But, you might have saved me a bunch of trouble.