Mickeyspinn
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Seriously no p take! It's a glorious colour if it were purple I'd say bin it
But that green is cracking....and the patina is lovely
But that green is cracking....and the patina is lovely
That is an interesting solution.to roll out the high spots on the sides of the dent
That's how I removed my dents with patience and pieces of paper in the right spot you can get it near perfect. I made my own ...have a look on eBay there's split clamps for allsorts of stuff you might find something with right bore or shimable with sections of thinwall tubing.it needs to match your tube OD tho.That is an interesting solution.
Will try to find these in the UK - shipping from USA costs about 3-5 times more than the block itself according to the sellers' quotes.
Several times by the looks of it.I reckon a cars reversed into it
I still have the clamps!Several times by the looks of it.
There's (presumably old) rear triangle damage and forks damage that would have been caused by different impacts. DT might have been one of them or yet another hit.
Glasgow life is tough.
I've managed to strip the frame - will report later on.
You wouldn't still have the clamps lying around, would you? it's 1 1/8" DT.
If Scottie was one of my bikes I would try to straighten the fork while it’s in the frame by securing the frame to something like a trailer, side of a vehicle or between two trees or two fence posts with ratchet straps. I would put an old hub or axle in the fork drops, put a ratchet strap on the bottom of the fork legs, put the other end of the ratchet strap on a third deadman, perhaps another tree, and ratchet the fork legs back. If they are also bent towards the frame I would spin the forks backwards, put a ratchet strap on the old hub, the other end of the ratchet strap could go through the bb opening or around the seat post. Then ratchet it straight. I really don’t know in how many dimensions your fork is bent in so this idea might not be helpful. If the fork steering tube is bent you need a new fork tube or a new fork. It could be weakened from all the bending and straightening stress. Forks absorb a lot of force and a fork failure is worse than a snapped off handle bar so exanime the repair and brazing for cracks. Anyway that is what I would try.Ok folks, this is the most ambitious project to date.
Will greatly appreciate your help.
I've been looking for the right Scot frameset in my size for several years now. It does help massively that I live about 50 miles away from where they were made, but still these framesets seem to be quite rare. Not so rare that you never ever see one for sale, but when they do come up, the asking prices tend to be rather high and the condition is very well used. The Scot history website states that there were only about 15k framesets built between 1935 and 1983, averaging out at about a frameset per day, factoring in weekends and holidays. Most purchased by serious cyclists and used very hard during their lifetime - not sure how many survived to 2022.
Most importantly, I really don't need another road bike unless I sell my modern ti machine, so it was very hard to justify spending hundreds on a "spare" frameset.
I was pleasantly surprised when a gumtree search popped up with a local advert for a random job lot of low-end components still attached to a mangled Scottie frameset. The previous owner had the bike damaged while it was parked in a street. Took it to a bike shop techie who told him that the frame is beyond repair. The frameset was in my size and fitted very well into my criteria of a bike in need of some work & a bike without the period-correct components. Bingo! Thank God I'm not a bike-shop-trained mechanic, because I think this is repairable. At least I will try my best to get this beauty on the road again.
The seller was happy to give me the frameset for free if I was paying for the components, so the purchase was a no-brainer. He made me a very happy retro-wrencher, at least until I find out that the frameset's a gonner .
"Take it to the tip" I hear you say. Well, not a scottie. Droch Stàilinn's here to stay.
Obvious damage to the frameset:
- Forks bent out of shape.
- Deep dent on the downtube
- Moderate rust
- Rear triangle lightly out of true
- Frozen seatpost
- There's more to come on closer inspection.
This will likely become a long-term project in particular sorting out a gauge to true the forks & truing up the frame, but I'm in no hurry.
Beam me up, fellas!