removing brazons

does anyone know of any DIY techniques for removing brazons before repainting ?

hacksaw and large file!

^ true-that! ..and a smoother file for finishing?
Dremel - if you have no arms to speak of.

i thought this was how i would have to do it .

just wanted to be sure there werent any secrets to doing it.

There are secrets to doing it...
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but they're secret.

You can heat them if you have access to oxy acetylene/propane to melt the brass/silver and lift them off, but you will still have to file them flat after, I removed a couple of cable bosses with heat and I need to go back and brass fill the small dents left by them and file them flat. For the canti brake bosses on my frame I'll just take an angle grinder to them to remove 95% of the boss and finish the last bit with a flat file.

Angle grinder and flat file IMHO

secrets hey, just like your beauty and weight loss tips hippy?

Working so far...

it's not a classic cinelli is it .... in which case leave the braze ons on

Carefully...

If you're sawing/filing off braze-ons on lightweight DB tubing which may be 0.5mm thick away from the butting you could mess your frame up.

dicki it's not a classic cinelli is it .... in which case leave the braze ons on

Yeah only remove stuff if it is quite a crappy frame other wise t is worth keepng them on incase you or anyone else wants to run it geared later.

£9.97

Yeah, I did it on my Trek S/S build, had a few wayward marks from hacksaw! Tried to file them smooth, but you can still see them a bit? Still it was a free frame and my first build, i'll be more careful next time.

These look decent and cheaper than Dremel? Oh, it is Dremel!!!

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/300jb-series-multi-tool-25pce-kit/path/17-mini-multi-purpose-power-tools

Draw round the braze-ons with a Chinagraph pencil, then when you file, as soon as you begin to remove the waxy pencil line...SHTOP...

Sounds like a good theory for not compromising the integrity of thin tubes, not sure I'd trust myself to try it out mind.

I did it, then resprayed the frame. I cut them off and then filed it down but I was still convinced there was still a bump so kept going, y'know? Anyway, I sprayed it and now it has some really noticeable bumps that go inwards in it.

But whatever.

Sweet.. custom light-weight frame mod. :)

sounds safe.

hammer is your best bit, with a chisel if your are a wimp