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So frame arrived late last week and was in a pretty sorry state for itself considering i'd sent what I thought was a good condition frame off for a respray.
The top tube in particular is covering in small holes and on the rest of the rest of the frame mainly around the welds there are small pin holes coming through .
I picked up a cheap endoscopy camera (much to my partners horror) and was pretty shocked with how rusty the top tube and down tube looked considering the seat tube, bb area and head tube area were fairly clean.
In contrast i've never looked inside steel tubing so uncertain whether this is standard wear and tear for a bike of this age / usage.
Assuming in light of the inside of the inside of tubes this was not caused by the spray shop. I've not managed to get any form of the reply from the frame maker which is disappointing, however assume they'll be no way of me getting it repaired under there "warranty" as I can't prove the frames usage, storage condition etc.
If anyone else has any other advice, thoughts etc would be great to hear it.
I've owned quite a few junk steel bikes over the years that have been treated far worse than this and never had any issues so this has been pretty disheartening considering the time, cash that went into the bike.