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I finally got round to taking some pictures of the old down tube. As far as I remember they cut the middle section out, hung a weight from the stub of tube joined to the lug and heated the brazing for it to drop away. Sounds reasonable anyway :) You can see a heavy bit of tube was welded inside to fix the cracked tube, think it was Mark at Argos that suggested it could be a bit of steerer. So probably a pretty decent fix, glad it's gone though! Nice new Reynolds 531 tube in its place.
N.B. this really is flippin typical, I thought it was going to be an easy / cheap one - no chrome, no special paint scheme ... . I had planned a Lytaloy headset for this one, and had it already, but when Argos came to fit it turns out the crown race was from a different incompatible set. Diddled on Ebay 50% of the time, also flippin typical. I finally got the right bits but the races were index/brindled - sent them off to be hard chromed and ground but that has understandably been delayed by lockdown. Races should be with me this week, but I now plan to use that headset on a Hobbs, so on the lookout again. Ah well, a lot of fun to be had in the hunt :)
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