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Here is a few better quality pics of the fork tube repair.

Hi everyone! Its been an action packed summer so for filled with camping, vacations, day trips, and of course bikes! A lot has been going on with "Monark Muscle" so here is the update!!! The pics below are of what I found when I took the fork off. The rusted out hole is from the wedge bolt being...

Klean Strip makes an aircraft stripper the I've seen available at most auto parts stores. I haven't used it before but it should work ok. aircraft paint is extremely tough and chemical resistant so it requires the nasty stuff! lol the paint on bikes is usually not the best quality and old and...

thanks Troy for the compliment on the fenders! As far as the paint goes, It's almost completely finished. I will be clearing the parts this weekend. Its a purple and black metallic. I decided to thro myself a curve ball/challenge.... its all dupli color! the paint turned out totally sick!!!!! I...

After the filler started to kick (15 minutes or so) I picked up the cheese grater started knocking it down. It is so much easier to rough shape body filler before it turns rock hard. I let an hour pass before blocking them out with 80 grit on 5" hard block. The fenders started coming back into...

After hammering out the fenders the best I could, I grabbed the 80 grit and went to town roughing up the areas that needed to be mudded. Then I mixed up the filler and started swiping I ended up just completely swipe them both! I also put a little on the chain guard.

In these pics you can see the dented up front fender. I didn't have a shot bag to hammer out some of the really deep stuff. So I improvised and used a sand bag. It worked excellently! It really was able to form around the compound curves of the fender.

These parts were not in good shape. As I said the fenders were in very rough shape. In this pic you can see the rear fender. I got ahead of my self and did not take a photo it before hand. But this is after I hammered and dollied it out. I had it pretty smooth for not having an English wheel but...

These parts were in good shape so I put them in etch primer right away.

Here is all the parts stripped clean.

Here are some pics of the parts. The stripper I use is used on aircraft. But it is definitely not the one you buy at the auto parts store! this stuff is mean and loves burning little holes in your skin!!! So gloves were a must.

Plan ''A" was to put it back to original. So I took a razor blade and started scraping off old paint in areas to uncover the original paint scheme. Well I found it under 2 other paint jobs and determined it to be the same lay out as this 24" I found on Google.

Disassembly went smooth up until I got to that frozen stem bolt! It ended up snapping pretty much right away. And wouldn't ya know it, the wedge bolt was rusted in place not letting the stem break loose! Here is a pic of the parts after an oxalic bath. Oh ya, I found out why you shouldn't mix it...

I loved the lines of this bike when I saw it on craigslist. But when I got there and saw that awesome looking sprocket and very cool aerospace style head badge, I knew I had to have her! The frame was straight, rim's had a slight wobble and the stem bolt was frozen. The fenders on the other...

This project started as a Craig's list find this past winter. It is a 20" Monark Silver King Rocket. I believe it to be from the 50's. I paid $40 for it and planed to restore it for my 8 year old daughter. She fell in love with it and could'nt wait to start work on it. So after finishing an 80...

hello Everyone! Joined this site about a month ago but haven't gotten around to you introducing myself. I've been building bikes for about a year now, and have about 6 in my collection so far. I have a 63 schwinn deluxe American, 73 schwinn camelback collegiate 5 speed, 60's men's Rollfast 26"...

I hail from Mesa Arizona USA. Anyone else out this way?

Hello everyone. I'm new to the site and the hobby of bike building & restoration. So far restored a 63 men's Schwinn Deluxe American, 76 women's Columbia Sports 3, and a 70's Gobi trike. I'm working on a 50's 20" girls Monark Silver King Rocket and lastly a black 79 Ross Apollo 5 speed. I'm...