I tried to post this last night, but the website was down...
After I stripped the frame and sanded the really rough spots, I was bothered by a lot of the welds. Apparently someone was drunk as work in '69 when they put this frame together. The seat tube is twisted to the right a bit and a lot of the welds have a lot of excess brass dripped on around them. You may know that I am slightly OCD about stuff like this, so I attacked it.
I didn't get "before" pics on anything but underneath the bottom bracket. I filed down one side (on the right) to show the height of the "blob". You can also see how rough the metal is due to rust.
Here's a "before" of the rear drop out.
Here's the "after"s... Top of the bottom bracket. This is what really started this whole thing off because the chain guard mount bolts into the hole and I thought all the bumped up weld would keep it from mounting flush. It was really a mess and took the longest.
Here is underneath the bottom bracket, what you saw before.
This is where the center tube meets the down tube at the front. There is a large pocket that you can see at the front that I'll have to fill in with filler. On the side is was all blobbed out.
This is the seat tube. Where the top tubes attach, there was a "zit" inside. You can still see it at the top, and I realize I need to hit it a little better. It's in a tight spot, so tough to wear down.
This is the very front. It had a big blob and it just had to have looked like crap when new. I couldn't tell because there was a lot of rust there. You can see the pitting into the brass. It's going to be a lot of fun smoothing out the filler in there! (You can see some other pits to the rear.)
With that done, I realized another issue. I've done a lot of rust busting on the outside of the frame, but what about the inside? If you look down the top tubes you can see the rust.
So I poured some acetone in all the tubes with hope of cleaning them out a bit, then I got some rust converting paint.
I sprayed into all the tubes as best I could, since most of them have their largest openings in the bottom bracket. I gave it one coat, and tomorrow I'll give it another. Hopefully that gives it enough of a converted inner surface to not be an issue.
Tonight I'm going to spray a second coat, then I'm going to clean up the outside of the frame and start with the primer.
After I stripped the frame and sanded the really rough spots, I was bothered by a lot of the welds. Apparently someone was drunk as work in '69 when they put this frame together. The seat tube is twisted to the right a bit and a lot of the welds have a lot of excess brass dripped on around them. You may know that I am slightly OCD about stuff like this, so I attacked it.
I didn't get "before" pics on anything but underneath the bottom bracket. I filed down one side (on the right) to show the height of the "blob". You can also see how rough the metal is due to rust.
Here's a "before" of the rear drop out.
Here's the "after"s... Top of the bottom bracket. This is what really started this whole thing off because the chain guard mount bolts into the hole and I thought all the bumped up weld would keep it from mounting flush. It was really a mess and took the longest.
Here is underneath the bottom bracket, what you saw before.
This is where the center tube meets the down tube at the front. There is a large pocket that you can see at the front that I'll have to fill in with filler. On the side is was all blobbed out.
This is the seat tube. Where the top tubes attach, there was a "zit" inside. You can still see it at the top, and I realize I need to hit it a little better. It's in a tight spot, so tough to wear down.
This is the very front. It had a big blob and it just had to have looked like crap when new. I couldn't tell because there was a lot of rust there. You can see the pitting into the brass. It's going to be a lot of fun smoothing out the filler in there! (You can see some other pits to the rear.)
With that done, I realized another issue. I've done a lot of rust busting on the outside of the frame, but what about the inside? If you look down the top tubes you can see the rust.
So I poured some acetone in all the tubes with hope of cleaning them out a bit, then I got some rust converting paint.
I sprayed into all the tubes as best I could, since most of them have their largest openings in the bottom bracket. I gave it one coat, and tomorrow I'll give it another. Hopefully that gives it enough of a converted inner surface to not be an issue.
Tonight I'm going to spray a second coat, then I'm going to clean up the outside of the frame and start with the primer.
