Dona Regina build thread

[MattiThundrrr]

Fresno is cooler than I had imagined.View attachment 234130View attachment 234131View attachment 234132View attachment 234133

Hahaha that's another symptom of the Rat Disorder; "visiting family" sometimes involves trying to figure out how to pack parts in a suitcase

 

[Ulu]

I don’t think he smuggled all that back on the airplane…

 

[One-eyed Sailor]

I don’t think he smuggled all that back on the airplane…

No, no bike parts on the plane but I managed to arrange shipping for a Some-Ott (2,000? 2010 my guess) Taiwan Heavy Duti. Uma doencia mesma.

 

[Wildcat]

Hahaha that's another symptom of the Rat Disorder; "visiting family" sometimes involves trying to figure out how to pack parts in a suitcase

I thought of cutting up my 53 Schwinn and 1942 Hawthorne frames, then having them welded back together over here. I should have done it!

 

[One-eyed Sailor]

My brother's and his wifie's Trek cruisers are in background, old Fresno is way cool.
They took me here on Sunday:

I've been in the Redwoods but the Sequoias are from another planet.

 

[JA331]

I thought of cutting up my 53 Schwinn and 1942 Hawthorne frames, then having them welded back together over here. I should have done it!
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I was in Japan in 2018 with a mate who was importing used motorcycles. We went to a wrecking yard where I saw a team of blokes cutting Super cub frames in half to minimise the cost of shipping for export to Africa. The owner of the yard wouldn't let me take photos of them cutting up the frames but these are a couple of photos I took that day.

 

[One-eyed Sailor]

I want to add hand-painted lettering to Regina and began by removing dumb stickers and the "Collegiate" paint.

I was nervous about damaging the lovely emerald green paint but acetone on a micro fiber rag removed it nicely.

I also cleaned up the seat tube

I don't think I'll reinstall the chain guard so the lettering will go on the "upper" down tube, something like this:

I love the Schwinn feather!

I got a little impatient with the stickers and need to slow down and finish the work carefully, this is my favorite Schwinn green color.
Once the stickers are off I will use rubbing compound to gently clean and brighten the paint, then polish and wax.

Has anyone painted their saddle before? I'd really appreciate any tips.
I will definitely test on another saddle first. BTW, is this a ladies saddle? Dunno.

 

[Captain Awesome]

I want to add hand-painted lettering to Regina and began by removing dumb stickers and the "Collegiate" paint.
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I was nervous about damaging the lovely emerald green paint but acetone on a micro fiber rag removed it nicely.

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I also cleaned up the seat tube

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I don't think I'll reinstall the chain guard so the lettering will go on the "upper" down tube, something like this:
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I love the Schwinn feather!

I got a little impatient with the stickers and need to slow down and finish the work carefully, this is my favorite Schwinn green color.
Once the stickers are off I will use rubbing compound to gently clean and brighten the paint, then polish and wax.

Has anyone painted their saddle before? I'd really appreciate any tips.
I will definitely test on another saddle first. BTW, is this a ladies saddle? Dunno.
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@OddJob has had luck with flex seal on seats in the past

 

[One-eyed Sailor]

Thanks, Cap'n

 

[One-eyed Sailor]

I wanted to paint the rear caliper, I liked the gray but wanted to add an accent color to match the fork. so I wiped it down with denatured alcohol and sprayed it but there were several fisheyes in the finish.

So I stripped all the paint off with this amazing stuff.
Works great, old paint almost falls off.

Wiped it down again and the primed and two-coated with this:

I want it to get super hard before I reassemble, does anyone low-temp bake a fresh paint job?
I've had fresh paint get chipped even after 12 days dry time.

Abraço

 

[GeePig]

Paint chips are indeed a problem.

Our oven doesn't work, so we cook in a tabletop electric oven, a bit like this:

I could see myself trying something like this out for painted things, it has a nice window in the top.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

does anyone low-temp bake a fresh paint job?

I hang mine in the rafters of the garage, it gets pretty warm in there, sometimes for a couple of weeks. I say it's to cure, but in reality it's because I'm lazy and tend to procrastinate

 

[One-eyed Sailor]

Maybe I'll just hot-box it in cardboad with a little heater for a while. Prolly should have used a better paint. Onward!

 

[One-eyed Sailor]

Progress has been made. More tomorrow, boa noite ratos.

 

[ingola]

Maybe I'll just hot-box it in cardboad with a little heater for a while. Prolly should have used a better paint. Onward!

@MattiThundrrr has never boxed anything

 

[MattiThundrrr]

@MattiThundrrr has never boxed anything

Never hot-boxed anything with paint

 

[Ulu]

Maybe I'll just hot-box it in cardboad with a little heater for a while. Prolly should have used a better paint. Onward!

Beware of overheating. I’ve burned out two heat guns doing this.

 

[One-eyed Sailor]

I used a little space heater and kept an eye on things, gave it about an hour of this.

 

[One-eyed Sailor]

So after a lot of tests and practice I ended up going with the 1.04mm safety wire for the cable clamps. 5/32" drill bit worked best with the shifter cable.

I liked the look of the heavier wire but it was more difficult to control tension.
I first got the idea from this little guy I bought at the city park from a talented artist.

Made from two pieces of wire. One is the pedals/crank, the other is everything else!
It begins and ends at the hipster brake levers. Follow it and you'll see it's true!
And yes, the crank cranks, lol.

 

[One-eyed Sailor]

Tick tock... good day today on Regina.
Photos soon.