Originally Posted by
EpicSchwinn
That's sick! How did you go about lengthening the seat stays? Just cut, bend, and fill the gap with tube from a donor bike's seat stays? What kind of welder are you using? I'm pretty good at welding and this looks like a fun project!
Thank you for the kind words. I simply cut out the original drop out and extended the seat stays with some steel stock that I had. I only had to add maybe 1/2". I then just ground down the dropouts until they looked like track ones and welded them back in. It took a bit of work to blend things in smoothly like they are in the photo.
For this project I just used a regular MIG setup. The hardest thing to weld was the brace and the tail as my welder does not have a "pulse" mode so I had to keep making tiny, very precise tacks.