Chinese Pazzo Imitation Clutch and Brake Levers Installed
- Thread starter RussellJ
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No sir all stock
Thats a nice set, I been looking at this lately 
Haha! I think a few posts earlier actually. I never understand why people like to come in to threads and try to change peoples opinions based on their non-experience with a given product. Whether it's oil, TIRES, levers, widgets...
I am a little disappointed that the "powers that be" don't try and put a stop to his crap. Opinions are one thing(just state it and move on), becoming arrogant and/or pompous towards someone with a different opinion is just plain hating. Everyone has different budget levels and financial responsibilities and that has to come into play too! I think the OP found an acceptable product, it will work for him, and others, whatever. We have gear police, accessory police, grammar police, geez, give it a rest.
I am about ready to use the ignore button to avoid even reading such highly opinionated crap.
OK, so some of you need to step away from the internet metallurgy...
The yield strength on 6061 T6 aluminum is ~250 mpa...
EVEN IF the levers are cast, and had significant amounts of hydrogen sucked into them, which can happen... your talking about a reduction of strength to around ~200 mpa at worst...
NOW... that means, if these chinese knock offs are failing, they are either NOT being heat treated and precipitation hardened correctly.. which in that case makes them untempered 6061 which is significantly weaker... OR they are not 6061 aluminum AT ALL...
the tempering is the more likely fault, as it is possible to screw this up, and end up with a piece of junk, still labled as T6061 aluminum....
SO, here is what I am going to do...
im going to buy a set of the 20 what ever dollar chinese knock offs, chop them up, and take them into the lab...
i'm going to toss them into the SEM, and do a full analysis and see what comes out...
I ALSO will do hardness testing on them...
either they come out to be the same as standard 6061-T6 and they are as "strong" as the other pieces, excluding any parts attached... or they come out as slag...
NOW, if someone has a broken pazzo, or would like to donate a pazzo to me to test i would HAPPILY run that one as well, to give us a comparison...
The SEM tests are destructive, so the lever would be dead after i was done...
i could however do hardness tests on the lever that would not be destructive...
PM Me if you have levers to donate, again, broken ones are fine as i'll be chopping them up anyhow for SEM...
argument done...
This will be awesome....thanks for volunteering "your" equipment. Pictures will be great too!
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I broke down and ordered a set the other day... For $41 I won't lose much if I don't like them
As ive said the craze lately about these things is amazing. Im getting very tempted to try them out.
Do it! You wont be sorry you did
You wont be dissappointed!
Levers look good though! Similar threads
