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clubby":2gjhx7km said:
You got a bargain.
Keith spent a fortune on anodised Hope parts to get that orange effect.
He can have all the orange bits free...
First surprise was the seat post came out cleanly. There was the remains of grease on the post. The bolt took some persuading though.
Emboldened, next was the stem. The bolt didn't want to turn at first, but when it did, the stem also came out nicely, again with traces of grease.
The rear cantis came off ok once the bolts were loosened, and there's minor rust on the bearing surface. Easily polished off.
The crappy front V-brakes were the same.
It was starting to look promising. The bike had obviously been well looked after prior to it's exposure to the elements.
But next was the mudguards and the rack. I doubt they have been removed in the life of the bike because they were fastened with slot head screws, and instead of Loctite they were rusted well into place.
They were proof against my biggest and best screwdriver, but a liberal application of WD40 followed by gripping the heads with multigrips and delicately twisting them got the loosening done.
All except the top right rack mount. That twisted right off, leaving the remains of the screw jammed inside the braze on. That's a job for later, some delicate drilling and ezy-outing. Meanwhile, it gets regular doses of WD40.
You have to question the logic of whoever decided to use a slot head screw inserted from the BB end on the chainstay bridge. That turned out to be immovable. I contemplated destroying the mudguard, but ended up doing some delicate Dremeling without scratching the paint.
Those inconsequential jobs took most of an afternoon.
By now I had a frame that looked like this: