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@fizzy.bleach
Well await no more Arnie! Your patience has paid off.
After all winter spent accruing tat to attach to this scruffy frame, I had a change of heart: I would spend a few more quid on this and make it a nice beach cruiser to sell.
And so it goes.
Here's the frame as she was bought, featuring rusted-on/in, low end crud. Also the frame itself is a cheap piece of Taiwanese pig iron. It's been languishing in my work basement for some six months but at least the rust has stopped.
With careful application of a hammer I managed to remove everything this afternoon except one BB cup where the chainguard plate is held. I've drenched it in 3-in-1 and am leaving it overnight. I also had to removed reams of duck tape someone had applied over the logos to make it less attractive to thieves. It's a Halfords gas pipe beach cruiser in a horrible shade of green FFS. They had also stuck some kind of adhesive foil(?) over one of the tubes, so well done them.
I have cranks, a stem (no-name short reach jobbie), bars (brand new 3TTT town bars - £10), and, not pictured a brown cruiser type saddle (Schwinn), pedals (Schwinn platforms) and a coaster hub.
Next step is to get some metal mudguards (recommendations?) and get the frame and guards down for a powdercoat. I'm thinking mint green. I would have gone for contrasting washed-out-pink guards but that would be £100's worth of coating on a £10 frame. I hope Armoutex don't mind all the residue form the duck tape being on there.