stalagmike
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- Milton Keynes
What did you use to clean those hoods? They've come up really well.
BSA Tour de France
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EltonFrog
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Very hot soapy water to clean it all and DD7 rubbed in and left over night and more soapy water. Left to dry in the airing cupboard.
davidphilips
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Just as a mater of interest MR Mussel oven cleaner will take years of grime of hoods in seconds, never left it on just put it on and washed it of right away.
looking forward to the build up of the BSA.
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EltonFrog
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I wish I’d thought of that.
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Gawd! what bloody faff this was, the front derailleur, easy enough to take apart and clean, but two and a half hours to put it back together, getting it wrong on the way, losing a screw, looking outside for it then realising the screw was in the thing, just in the wrong place. I am never never ever going to take one of those apart ever again.
There is a spring underneath the right hand top screw, that flicks the arm to left and up, trying to get that down and to stay while refitting the screw took some Heath Robinson style clamping, then i put the wrong feckin screw in and had to start again. Gah! knowing my bloody luck the sodding thing won't work now.
There is a spring underneath the right hand top screw, that flicks the arm to left and up, trying to get that down and to stay while refitting the screw took some Heath Robinson style clamping, then i put the wrong feckin screw in and had to start again. Gah! knowing my bloody luck the sodding thing won't work now.
stalagmike
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You are doing a great job of cleaning these bits up. It's going to shine when it's all back together. So it will look good even if it doesn't work
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EltonFrog
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LolYou are doing a great job of cleaning these bits up. It's going to shine when it's all back together. So it will look good even if it doesn't work
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EltonFrog
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And yet another update.
Cleaned up the down tube shifters and some other bits n pieces today, including the seat clamp for the brooks saddle which was brown with rust, another 3 hours work, still, its a nice day set up the bench outside and did whilst listening to the iPlayer radio.
Before.
After. Took them apart cleaned them up as best I could.
Seat clamp, that was in a right 2 n 8.
I've just realised that I think I've threaded that screw in upside down.
Only about half dozen small thing to clean up now before I start to put it all back together.
Cleaned up the down tube shifters and some other bits n pieces today, including the seat clamp for the brooks saddle which was brown with rust, another 3 hours work, still, its a nice day set up the bench outside and did whilst listening to the iPlayer radio.
Before.
After. Took them apart cleaned them up as best I could.
Seat clamp, that was in a right 2 n 8.
I've just realised that I think I've threaded that screw in upside down.
Only about half dozen small thing to clean up now before I start to put it all back together.
davidphilips
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- Onabike
Thats a lot of time and work, full credit to you and i hope the BSA goes great for you, its some thing you will never forget.
PS Please dont lend it to any one or use it in the rain.
PS Please dont lend it to any one or use it in the rain.
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EltonFrog
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Thanks it has been a lot of work so far, it’s an interesting experience, I’m not naturally mechanically minded, but because the bike was free I don’t really have any to lose, I’m learning a lot.
Fair enough, I’m not evem sure if it’s the right size for me! I’ve measured it, the sums add up, but looking at if it seems small. We shall see. There’s a back story to this bike which I’ll write about briefly when it’s finished.
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EltonFrog
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I’ve just spent a very pleasant hour or so in the garage cleaning the last bits and pieces of chrome, nuts, bolts and odds and sods. Nothing left now but to put everything back on the bike. This will be interesting, cos I’m not sure if I can remember where all the bits go.
I’m not sure if anyone is that interested in this project, but it’s a useful record for me. I’ll be on holiday for a few days next week so it will be a while before it’s complete.
I’m not sure if anyone is that interested in this project, but it’s a useful record for me. I’ll be on holiday for a few days next week so it will be a while before it’s complete.
roadrash
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I am interested
stalagmike
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- Milton Keynes
I'm interested. I too am worried that when I go to put my Holdsworth back together I won't remember where it all goes but that's part of the learning curve I guess. I'm only half way through my first rebuild and I'm already trying to persuade the Mrs that she really needs a nice steel framed mixte to complement her Giant hybrid.
SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
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- London
I'm always interested in these sort of topics. A bike doesn't have to be fancy and exotic to make it worth spending time rescuing and sorting out. It just needs to be made of steel and of classic design, even if it was a cheapo new, was given FOC, or dragged out of someone's bin. Whilst we'd all like to own a collection of pristine, one-owner machines with a history from new, the reality is most old bikes of the type we like on here have had a hard life and been through the hands of at least one owner who didn't take as much care of them as they should. That gives us more of a challenge, and I find it very informative reading up on how someone else has stripped and de-rusted their project as I might learn something useful to copy when doing my own ones.
