OUCH!
Actually, my first though was about binding...
Teebes, you going to post the pic, or email?
Mike
The Roadie wrote:Good news about UCA spares is that you only need to carry one. JD and MB - Teebes has a good closeup of the break grain structure. Need expert commentary on if it was possibly salt corrosion cracking or perhaps overextension and upper ball joint jamming that cracked it.
Very odd that it survived all that time and let loose on the road.
I thought I had a suspension problem at a burger joint we had lunch at, so I laid down on the ground to look. In 30 seconds, three people came boiling out of the restaurant to see if I had fallen or something worse. Good to know they cared......
fishsticks wrote:I'll submit the first guess:
Teebes just proved that the milled ball joints are stronger than the cast/forged connection on the UCA.
JamesDowning wrote:Hard to tell from those pics.
Is the brown at the top and bottom rust? If so, then it looks like it cracked a while ago and finally gave out.
I'm not really seeing the characteristic striation pattern from fatigue failure - maybe a little from the bottom left of the clamp. From what I can see, most of that looks like brittle overload failure.
It'd be nice to get an even closer shot from head-on.
The Roadie wrote:WOOHOO!