Protecting the dropouts

So,

I've finally found a NOS vintage frame in my size at a good price.

It's beautiful, and the paintwork is perfect.

I want to fit a flip flop hub, which will mean removal of the wheel every once in a while.

A lot of track dropouts have a non-paint finish around where the bolt bites so as not to get the dropout ugly looking. Is there anything I can do to cover my forward facing horizontals and prevent the paint chipping off and subsequent rust?

I just don't want to wreck the paintwork when I finally build this up.

Michael

no

Oops, should have put this in mechanics and fixing... Sorry!

Getting a fucking life is the only thing that will work.

Christ, next week, it'll be "my tyres are dirty"
Get some chain tugs if your that worried, the axle bolts wont make direct contact with the dropout that way.

So,

I've finally found a NOS vintage frame in my size at a good price.

It's beautiful, and the paintwork is perfect.

I want to fit a flip flop hub, which will mean removal of the wheel every once in a while.

A lot of track dropouts have a non-paint finish around where the bolt bites so as not to get the dropout ugly looking. Is there anything I can do to cover my forward facing horizontals and prevent the paint chipping off and subsequent rust?

I just don't want to wreck the paintwork when I finally build this up.

Michael

A nylon washer.

no

^that

A nylon washer.

gay

and slippery

Getting a fucking life is the only thing that will work.

Christ, next week, it'll be "my tyres are dirty"

The vain protesters shout loudest.

gay

Nylon is only the 8th most gay plastic actually.

and slippery

Admittedly it has a stunning coefficient of friction, almost zero stiction as well as numerous other properties, but you can beat a World War 1 rubber gasket off ebay.

hahaha

Why not rubber washers then? Hmmm...

Getting a fucking life is the only thing that will work.

Christ, next week, it'll be "my tyres are dirty"

Singspeed, don't listen to these benders, their position is flawed, aesthetics, sensory or sensori-emotional values are, to this day, that one facet of the human condition that is as quickly dismissed as it is casually misunderstood. People like things to look good, it has evolutionary foundations (and practical value) as deep, perhaps deeper, than those other things we might give a free, unthinking, pass to, this worry about other's worrying about insignificant visual detail is an expression of machismo (which in itself is similarly valuable).

Every time someone takes the time to worry about the detail of another man's life and his interests (and to further take the time to complain about the interests of another man) you can pretty much take it as certain that these action carry more about him than you.

I think the main confusion is to mix up the idea that someone could obsess about how something looks with a sense of vanity - ie: it's common for people to struggle to escape the idea that: "I want my bike/car/trousers/house to look good" means anything other than "I want myself to 'look' good.

One facet that's quickly dismissed/casually misunderstood?

Are you living in an ivory tower? I bet you are, and I bet you worry about how to keep it looking pristine too. Nylon doesn't even begin to describe your attitude.

BTW, there's no confusion on my part over the difference between personal vanity and a mindset that would let preservation of just conceived form impede lifelong function.

One facet that's quickly dismissed/casually misunderstood?

"that one facet" doesn't preclude others.

Are you living in an ivory tower?

Yes.

I bet you are, and I bet you worry about how to keep it looking pristine too.

Ouch!

Nylon doesn't even begin to describe your attitude.

No, you are right, it doesn't.

aesthetics, sensory or sensori-emotional values are, to this day, that one facet of the human condition that is as quickly dismissed as it is casually misunderstood.

The ways that's phrased makes it sound pretty preclusive i.e. the other facets aren't quickly dismissed etc. I'm sure you're not being deliberating obfuscatory.

I just wanted my dropouts not to rust and become weakened by that rust over time.

It was the protection that would ultimately be the preservation of the safety of the bike. Bollocks to vanity.

It won't be a problem. Thick metal, surface regularly aggravated, easy to spot, erm, spots, should they appear, etc.

Cool. thanks for the reassurance.

You should worry more about whether the main tubes have been 'frame-savered', and that water doesn't collect in the BB shell due to ingress via the seat-tube slot/gas holes in the chainstays.

I guess aesthetics was a major part of my original post, but I hate the uncertainty that rust brings in general! Yep i always check those parts, keep my bike out of the rain, grease the inside of the headset & bb before fitting anything.