I think what SRAM did was simply a mistake. They now will live up to their warranty the way a decent company should.
The Oring failures, if that's what the problem was, are a simple fix. SRAM makes a lot of things, Orings aren't one of them. If they got some that weren't up to spec, expect them to be suing one of their suppliers. I have yet to replace the hydraulic Orings in my 13 year old truck, my 17 year old car or my 10 year old motorcycle. I also have a set of Magura hydraulic rim brakes from the mid-nineties that are still going strong. Good Orings last. Until you start screwing with them. As long as they were up to par to begin with. Not sure of where the hippieness and braiding and not shaving comes from, but please ladies, keep it smooth. Cheers, Scott Henry Dayton, OH FTM-PTB On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Bill Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote: > Fair enough. I made the mistake thinking that you were responding > directly to the quote you quoted. A guy makes a comment about "rushing to > market" and then you say "didn't NASA have a similar problem". I thought > you were accusing NASA of rushing to market. You've clarified it for me. > > > On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:40:44 AM UTC-8, Steve Palincsar wrote: >> >> On 12/18/2013 01:38 PM, Bill Lindsay wrote: >> >> Richard Feynman has not written up his report on the SRAM issue. >> Also, thusfar, the SRAM issue has vaporized zero brave American Astronauts, >> so I would call those two problems "not similar" >> >> >> Consequences are "not similar" but "O ring fails in cold weather" >> certainly does sound "similar" to me... >> >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:28:08 AM UTC-8, Steve Palincsar wrote: >>> >>> On 12/18/2013 01:10 PM, oldmangabe wrote: >>> > >>> > The crux of this particular problem is that SRAM seems to have rushed >>> > it's product to market in order to compete with Shimano and meet >>> > market expectations. In doing so SRAM seems to have neglected to do >>> > enough R&D on the redesign of the "road" versions of their hydro >>> > calipers. It always baffles me that companies would rather deal with >>> > warranties and recalls rather than make sure the products were >>> > correctly designed and speced, even if it means they come to market a >>> > bit later than the competitors. >>> >>> Didn't NASA have a similar problem with O-rings with the Space Shuttle? >>> >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
