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Brought the Holdsworth into work with me today.
The frame alignment tool seems to have gone walkies but I’ve gotten it spread to 120mm and as far as I can tell it’s centred.
Bottom bracket has been putting up a fight, it’s all out now bar the adjustable cup which seems to be pretty well seized. It’s also a pretty hard steel it’s made of so I’m not going down the route of cutting it out. Yet.
I opened up the driveside dropout pretty easily to allow me to get acwheel in and double check the alignment but the dropouts are going anyway.
Started making some cuts and decided it was going to be easiest to get the seat stays right out the way. My plan had been to leave the rear triangle as intact as possible, reattach the seat stays up top then do the dropouts but it would have been really difficult to do the mitre in the toptube/seat lug with the stats there.
The seat stays are still attached to each other by the brake bridge (which I think I want to change out for something less agricultural) but I’ll see how easy it is attaching them to the dropouts lijevthis. Might have to separate them.
Quite happy with the job I did of cutting the stats off the seatlug, seems like a bit of filing and sanding and they’ll be good to go back on.
Cutting the mitre was a nightmare, so difficult to get a good angle on it.
I’m happy with how it’s ended up though, perhaps a bit more fine tuning to be done with the files.
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