It was a good day today!
I went to @Skydreamer ‘s shop and he did his thing to the fork.
First, for the pins, he ground the heads off and we just punched them through (I should have thought of that!). I’ll just replace them with new ones or grade 8 shoulder bolts and nylocks.
Then he lengthened the head tube with a section from a Columbia exercise fork that @kingfish254 gave for another ‘project’ the threads were cleaner on the donor, so it was a simpler fix. Mark sleeved the weld and BOOM!
Now I’ve got plenty of threads for the headset and truss rod bracket!
I’m pretty stocked about the way things turned out, now to strip off 70 years of paint!
Cheers guys!
I went to @Skydreamer ‘s shop and he did his thing to the fork.
First, for the pins, he ground the heads off and we just punched them through (I should have thought of that!). I’ll just replace them with new ones or grade 8 shoulder bolts and nylocks.
Then he lengthened the head tube with a section from a Columbia exercise fork that @kingfish254 gave for another ‘project’ the threads were cleaner on the donor, so it was a simpler fix. Mark sleeved the weld and BOOM!
Now I’ve got plenty of threads for the headset and truss rod bracket!
I’m pretty stocked about the way things turned out, now to strip off 70 years of paint!
Cheers guys!