Crack in my frame

Ive jus noticed a crack in my frame, im going to try and weld her up cos i cant bare to let her go. lol jus wondering if this even possible considering how thin the steel will be and if there are any alternatives? cheers

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Ive jus noticed a crack in my frame, im going to try and weld her up cos i cant bare to let her go. lol jus wondering if this even possible considering how thin the steel will be and if there are any alternatives? cheers

Is it a steel frame?

Where is the crack?

Pics?

Surely a cracked frame is not an occasion for Loling.

yep a steel frame, and its on one of the two bars that come up from the rear drop outs to the seat post, about 10 mm from where it joins the seat post.

im not exactley sure what the part is called hope that description is sufficient.

That's called the seat stay heasman.

Don't really know, but it would seem to me that a crack in the seat stay is easier to sort than a crack just about anywhere else. Want to re-iterate that i am no expert. Maybe talk to Mario (he paints frames, and does other stuff like brazing - don't know about frame repairs). Other than that call Brixton Cycles and ask them what they think...
Mario: 07956314216

      02088520711

Brixton Cycles : 02077336055

Mercian quote a price of £55 on their website to repair a single seat stay. Someone like Witcomb or Vaz would probably do it for a bit less. It's probably the sensible thing to do as it'll fail at some point in the future.

i am not to shabby with a welder and family member of mine has lots of experiance with welding and i get free steel which is a bonus, its my pride and joy and gonna try and fix her. will post pics of before and after if i can repair it and see what ya think. cheers for the info and will defo give some of them numbers a ring for help.

I would get professional advice as to the best method of repair - welding may not be appropriate depending on the exact location and the type of tubing, due to the heat involved, and you may find it just fractures again next to the weld. If the crack is along an existing brazed joint, it can probably be re-brazed. If it's literally in the middle of the tube and not associated with a join, it's probably more sensible to replace the stay, which again will involve brazing not welding.

Is it a steel frame?

Surely a cracked frame is not an occasion for Loling.

yeah why the Loling??

you should speak to veLLo as he is currently having this exact same repair done to his frame. he would be happy to point you in the right direction.

At Witcombs!

what about this? Is something like this repairable?

that doesnt look good, most probably you have to put a new chainstay

yup, the whole tube will need replacing, it has snapped after the dropout insert weld

thats what I thought. Shit. How much would that cost (roughly)?

give a call to Argos, they will sort you out, but 75 GN sounds about right

non helpful answer is depends on who you get to do it, but i would imagine a new tube and re chroming would be £$£ etc.

speak to Brucy..... i hear he's pretty handy with the old bubble gum/sellotape technique.

Mercian quote £55 to replace a single chainstay.

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he does welding and ting

get some JB weld on it, jobs a bodge'un

i would let a proper framebuilder do it. my reason being that the join is a thin tube (the stay) and a thick piece of metal (the dropout) which is more difficult to weld than joining metal of the same thickness due to getting the right amount of heat into the thick and thin bits of metal.
bodge it and it will probably crack again in the heat affected zone next to the weld.