Specialized Rockhopper saga

Nice work! Are you making the tabs yourself or are you buying and chopping them up? I think it's the later. Also are you MIG welding these on?

Love the Frankenhopper name! šŸ˜Ž

Nice seatpost puller too. Always keep meaning to make one of these!
 
Nice work! Are you making the tabs yourself or are you buying and chopping them up? I think it's the later. Also are you MIG welding these on?

Love the Frankenhopper name! šŸ˜Ž

Nice seatpost puller too. Always keep meaning to make one of these!
Thankyou very much. Yeah I make the tabs myself, Iā€™ve rescued a lifetimes supply of 5 and 6 mm plate steel from the skip at work. I clamp a caliper to the disc and then cut up some cardboard until Iā€™m happy or run out of patience then use that as a template for the steel.
I have mig welded them on before and managed to keep the welds neat but a friend of mine Tig welds them on now for me. I asked him how much he would charge to weld the tabs on and he reckons Ā£30 so itā€™s not too pricey.
Ā£15 for paint so less than Ā£50 for a disc mod, well minus all the bolt on parts lol

That seatpost puller was an absolute beast lol Iā€™ve only got a small shed so unfortunately itā€™s back in the skip at work where its bits are from. I donā€™t know where you are from but if itā€™s still in the skip and you want it you can have it but collection from Stockton Iā€™m afraid.
 
Thankyou very much. Yeah I make the tabs myself, Iā€™ve rescued a lifetimes supply of 5 and 6 mm plate steel from the skip at work. I clamp a caliper to the disc and then cut up some cardboard until Iā€™m happy or run out of patience then use that as a template for the steel.
I have mig welded them on before and managed to keep the welds neat but a friend of mine Tig welds them on now for me. I asked him how much he would charge to weld the tabs on and he reckons Ā£30 so itā€™s not too pricey.
Ā£15 for paint so less than Ā£50 for a disc mod, well minus all the bolt on parts lol

That seatpost puller was an absolute beast lol Iā€™ve only got a small shed so unfortunately itā€™s back in the skip at work where its bits are from. I donā€™t know where you are from but if itā€™s still in the skip and you want it you can have it but collection from Stockton Iā€™m afraid.
Good stuff. I love making stuff. Couldn't quite tell if it was neatly MIG'd or not due to the filing/grinding. Nice work.

Shame you can't keep the puller due to space. I'm miles away in South Wales, but @The History Man might be interested as I'm sure he's closer. One day I'll get around to making one. It's on the never ending list in my head! šŸ¤Ŗ;)
 
Thankyou very much. Yeah I make the tabs myself, Iā€™ve rescued a lifetimes supply of 5 and 6 mm plate steel from the skip at work. I clamp a caliper to the disc and then cut up some cardboard until Iā€™m happy or run out of patience then use that as a template for the steel.
I have mig welded them on before and managed to keep the welds neat but a friend of mine Tig welds them on now for me. I asked him how much he would charge to weld the tabs on and he reckons Ā£30 so itā€™s not too pricey.
Ā£15 for paint so less than Ā£50 for a disc mod, well minus all the bolt on parts lol

That seatpost puller was an absolute beast lol Iā€™ve only got a small shed so unfortunately itā€™s back in the skip at work where its bits are from. I donā€™t know where you are from but if itā€™s still in the skip and you want it you can have it but collection from Stockton Iā€™m afraid.
Can you retrieve it? I work in Fairfield Stockton and have a stuck post!!!!!!!!!
 
This is my first attempt at a paint repair, although the shade is wrong and thereā€™s an obvious line where I tried to conserve the decals Iā€™m happy enough with that. Canā€™t be too precious, it is a do it all Frankenhopper after all.
I fancy going to the York cycle festival next weekend and Iā€™d like to take this but no time left to get it together how it will stay so a temporary single speed build perhaps šŸ¤”ā€¦ IMG_5386.jpeg IMG_5388.jpeg IMG_5389.jpeg IMG_5390.jpeg
 
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