hole in frame - but can it be saved?

Posted on Sat 18th, January 2020

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• #51

clubman

You would do well to start with a phosphoric acid primer (google phosphating).

This should give a good key for subsequent coats, as well as being an excellent anti rust agent.

With a little ingenuity you could even apply it to the insides of the tubes, which is where damaging rusting most frequently occurs. (But, of course, you know that!).

Since the BB area is not much prone to chipping, as the top tube would be, I think your touching in plan should work pretty well.
• #52

ricky2slicky

I'd pick a point on each of the tubes to mask up to pant the whole shebang black and then try and mask yellow pinstipes against the black/orange edges but thats just me. Alternatively, I'd treat the bare metal and then clearcoat it. The new tube is then part of the frame's story.

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