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Apologies, life-stuff interrupted
This one is actually number 583 (misread it) with a match on the steerer tube (WIP build in progress)
Can’t reach the other, is right at the back :(

Before I head to evilBay, anyone have a;

1. Campagnolo Record 40T Fc-Re140 10 Speed Triple Chain Ring
   
   

and a
Tool HCW-5 or lookalike.

for sale (including postage)?

Thank you!

Ah, yes, can do
Will pop into the garage later and get some :)

PayPal login fucking useless hell grrr

So nice
Love my Dave Yates & Centaur
glws

@Mat-CR for the Centaur components, great project, price and packaging:)

Could I take the Bianchi one please? Will pm

:)

Oh, didn’t realise that! Thank you :)

Ah! Only need the washers unfortunately, but I suspect that’s going to be a faint hope?

…the ones for Campagnolo chainset bolts that thread into the axle (the hex-head ones)?
Does anyone have a pair?

@ketsbaia for great product, prices and comms :)

Had a bit of a pick away at the Donohue
Firstly, the corrosion on the inside of the nds chainstay looks to be just surface, which is good
Took a bastard file to it, along with some other spots this evening lol will which appear structurally sound
The main thing is that the whole builder-branding appears from research to be pretty annoying badging
The late 90’s frameset likely was assembled in Czech factories, which is good - but Paul had not part in making it (no frame numbers or any identifying stamps being another giveaway apparently) who also did the majority of TIG welded 853 frames that various UK ‘brands’ had badged
So, plan now is to strip back the paint and get it refinished as a no-name blank
Seems more honest to the people who actually made the frame

Superb

Have a bit of a thing for bringing bieks back from the brink where they might, without a little attention, become practice for frameWelders or people who make sculptures for front gardens.
Nothing against either, but some frames are just too good to end up in the recycling.
Having got a few of these on the go right now (and having done quite a few and passed them on to new rider-owners over the time I’ve been on here) wondered if anyone facing a similar hankering might find my struggling useful or galvanise you to do the same :)
So on the bench at the moment (because why have a hard time doing one thing when you could be doing three), are;

• Roberts 531 road frame
  
• Roberts 531ST f&f
  
• Paul Donohue 853 f&f
  There are more, but who’s rushing.
  
  

The first Roberts, more on that later but the BB was seized stuck. But not any more. Three dips in caustic soda didn’t melt it out but freed the threads enough for All THe tOols to work it.

The second Roberts is lovely.
Again, terminal BB and threads so luckily someone chamfered the faces and I serviced a Mavic and all seems ok.
It really deserves a full Argos-quality respray but who’s got money for that? Plus it’s an amazing two-tone thing, most of it’s ok, so sanded back the corrosion and prime and will then lacquer - so the light-restoration will be visible.
And of course, triples :)

The Donohue I think has done a few rounds on here, and again, is lovely.
Few more issues here, lots of stuck bits but as I have my fuck-you-hat on, everything’s starting to come good.
After a good wash, can see what’s needed to do next.

More to follow if anyone’s got this far.

@bens0n for the amazing freecycle - going to make for an amazing build :)

They’re really neat

Had a flashback there that hollow bolts were things my adjacent-engineering dad might tell apprentice people to go to the store for, along with asking for a long weight… or a box of 5/8ths holes
But then I am as old as recalling when things were actually made around here

Pm’ing

Ah… PM’ing :)

:)

Polished or the black-finish version?

Am currently on a save the triple mission… but which flavour are those?
:)

Ah, that’s useful to know if I run up against sources, thank you :)