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rubberchicken
19/07/2005 at 10:48
Oh VD collective, I have an query that I'm hoping you can answer. I wish to X-ray my bike (long story) - is there anyone in the UK who can do it cheap? Or even - gasp - free?
Silly Car
19/07/2005 at 10:49
rubberchicken wrote
Oh VD collective, I have an query that I'm hoping you can answer. I wish to X-ray my bike (long story) - is there anyone in the UK who can do it cheap? Or even - gasp - free?

Go on tell us the long story, I need something to read

I can't help in any case, but I am nosey
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Melons
19/07/2005 at 10:51
Silly Car wrote
Go on tell us the long story, I need something to read

I can't help in any case, but I am nosey


he's misplaced his stash of Charlie
Leigh
19/07/2005 at 10:55
Take it to the hospital and just say its not feeling very well !!!!
Leigh
19/07/2005 at 11:01
I would have thought that you would need either a company in the aerospace industry or the automotive industry.

They both have the need for high quality control and would also be the one's with equipment big enough.

As for getting it done free, I doubt it
Horse
19/07/2005 at 11:04
An MRI scan might be more spectacular.

Or try a DNA test ?

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balbas
19/07/2005 at 11:07
rubberchicken wrote
Oh VD collective, I have an query that I'm hoping you can answer. I wish to X-ray my bike (long story) - is there anyone in the UK who can do it cheap? Or even - gasp - free?


Why X-ray your bike? In what detail do you need to go? How much of the bike are you talking about?

I can't help, but knowing that you want to X Ray a suspension linkage might mean that people who can't help you x-ray an entire bike might be able to help you. IYSWIM
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rubberchicken
19/07/2005 at 11:25
I just need to x-ray a part of the bike, not all of it. Am prepared to pay a reasonable price. Anyone out there can do it? Or know of anyone who can? A mate of a mate? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink
FJSRiDER.
19/07/2005 at 11:31
rubberchicken wrote
I just need to x-ray a part of the bike, not all of it. Am prepared to pay a reasonable price. Anyone out there can do it? Or know of anyone who can? A mate of a mate? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink
What are you looking for - and how would you recognise it if you saw it?
choc-ice
19/07/2005 at 11:34
If it's only part of the bike, try a web search for non destructive testing. There are some independent test houses around that should help.

It might help to tell them a bit more detail up front though, unlike you've done here
Horse
19/07/2005 at 11:37
Let's give you a hint, here.

X-raying anything made of thick metal instantly puts limitations on what you can achieve.

If you're trying to find cracks in - ferinstance - the frame or an engine casing, there are fluorescing-dye methods which would/could be far more suitable.

If you're talking 'bits' are they bits which can be removed easily? What size? Are you asking someone to spread oil, petrol, road grime, and battery acid all over their nice clean equipment?

Narrow it down a bit, eh?

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FJSRiDER.
19/07/2005 at 11:49
Horse wrote
Narrow it down a bit, eh?
He's an intellectually challenged wannabie riding a GSXRrrrrrrrr....

It'll be the frame won't it?

Planning a 'claim'?
rubberchicken
19/07/2005 at 12:23
I realise I'm being specifically vague - there's a reason for it that I can't go into here. Cheers for the helpful replies, despite my lack of detail.
CB500
19/07/2005 at 12:25
Horse wrote
An MRI scan might be more spectacular.

Oh there's a really good idea. Lets put a large piece of metal near a really big magnet

Once was involved in removing a physiotherapy weight bag from the bore of an MRI. Took 5 of us to shift it. If that hadn't worked we would have had to quench the magnet which has the possibility to kill said magnet (mucho expensive). Even a Helium refill is tens of thousands of £.
Bugger, Bugger, Bugger.
ST4
19/07/2005 at 12:39
Look for companies who do NDT work (non destructive testing)
byker28i
19/07/2005 at 12:43
Ride it into an airport?
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Horse
19/07/2005 at 13:24
CB500 wrote
Oh there's a really good idea. Lets put a large piece of metal near a really big magnet


Durr . . . try and keep with it. Why do you think I chose the word 'spectacular'?

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Horsey
19/07/2005 at 13:32
rubberchicken wrote
Oh VD collective, I have an query that I'm hoping you can answer. I wish to X-ray my bike (long story) - is there anyone in the UK who can do it cheap? Or even - gasp - free?


I might still have a pair of x-ray specs that I bought as a kid... you could try them.
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BigEd
19/07/2005 at 13:36
Leigh wrote
They both have the need for high quality control....


Aye, You can cross suzuki specialists of your list of places to try then
Muggins
19/07/2005 at 15:13
There is a place called The Test House just outside Cambridge. They do lots of testing on metal for fatigue, wield strength, stress cracks etc. They may be able to help you.

There number is 01223 894252.

Good Luck, let us know how you get on and the full story when you can.

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