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Misspellings like this often give an edge to the keen buyer. I've won a few auctions for good prices due to misspellings making it not come up in typical searches, and I also used to seek out auctions without pictures. For some reason, folks don't want to buy things without a picture, and you...

I'm an avid Bowie fan, so I love the user-name!

Interesting. I may be looking for a set of Swingbike / John Deere fenders to send off to the chrome shop if you know of any....

Yep, the bike I bought didn't have one on it, so I got a new one from eBay.

Ha! I fall into about the 3rd category beard-wise, but my bike knowledge is slim!

308 is austenitic - in this alloy intergrannular corrosion (carbide precipitation) happens when heated above 1200F for a long period of time - as you said the rods are small and I doubt you heated them long enough for this to be a problem. However, if you are worried about it, heat to above...

TRM - no I did not. I totally forgot to do it before I started putting the bike together. I can still probably get some pretty good measurements with the bike assembled. I'll post back about how it turns out. DJ Bill, here are the pictures of the joint, first one is outside, second one is...

Do you know what grade of stainless you are using for the spokes? I worked for 6 years as an engineer with some oversight to a metallurgy lab at a turbine engine repair facility. I might be able to help you with some info on annealing.

Thanks, I'll bring them. DJ Bill - I bought new ones - VP-H732's that fit Mini-BMX and the bottom bracket is a Wald, all of which I bought from Porkchop BMX. My goal wasn't to build an all original Swingbike with original parts, I just wanted something that looked good and rode good. The...

Is there any point in me keeping the old headsets or bottom bracket that I took out of the original bike? I was just planning to toss that stuff, but wasn't sure if I should since I see ancient used Krate bottom brackets and stuff like that on eBay.

15" high on my Swingbike

There were flyers for this all over the place at Best Bicycle in Chatt.

Amen brother! I got a safe full of guns that I just cannot afford to shoot!

KenC - do you know what parts are similar?

She's finished, and rides great! Thanks to Joe @ Best Bicycle in Chattanooga for coming through at the last minutes with some parts. The wheels I bought on eBay were from a Krate reproduction and the back one fit great, but the front one had a 3/8" axle and the hub was 3" wide, while the front...

Yeah, I have thought about getting a stand, and still may in the future, but I'm just going to rough it by assembling it on the floor on a towel. Haha, the guy didn't even write me a receipt...small mom/pop shop...no visa, cash or check only. My bike is an A-serial number, so it has the welds...

As a Georgia Tech alumni, the bike was destined to be white and gold!

I'll have to call back up there to get the color code, but I used Auto-Cycle Powdercoating in Chattanooga, TN, and it was $150, with a turn-around time of 2 weeks. That price included stripping the old paint/coatings off...I dropped it off just as I had disassembled it and picked it up like...

Guess what I picked up today... Of course I'm out in the garage installing parts already!

I'm thinking about coming out for this...