I cleaned the Carrera Vengeance magnesium road bike, which is going to be put into storage as
hopefully the worst of the winter weather is behind us. That'll be kept for next winter.
Then more attention turned to the
Peugeot 653 that
@Jameshow had delivered to me last month after
@biggs682 had
spotted it on Facebook in Bournemouth: that's a CC collective job in itself to obtain! The plastic FAG bottom bracket had become stuck; my university's workshop could cut metal BB crank bolt bits off with an angle grinder but couldn't force it out. Also, using a Campag BB tool a load of combined hands had got the non-driveside bottom bracket cup out using the tool, some washers, a bolt, a big chisel and an extremely large lump hammer.
The right-hand driveside was gone however. The plastic thread was broken and it had seized in with no way of turning the cup. So ... over the past few weeks, whenever I've had a bit of time, I've drilled holes into the plastic bottom bracket. However, having broken several drill bits, I needed a longer one.
Hence I sourced some extra long drill bits. Using those I've drilled holes right round the bottom bracket, then through sections of the plastic that didn't have holes in this afternoon. Then, I chiselled through sections. Finally, a large hammer forced the bottom bracket to move. That's let me get what few pieces of plastic were remaining out.
The frame's been cleaned and it'll be off to have the bottom bracket cups re-threaded in the workshop in the next few weeks, then I'll look to remove the zinc rust-proofing paint before deciding the next steps. No timescale, but it's a lightweight 653 frameset that
should have potential.
