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Old 02-08-12, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Benjamin_E29
.he...ground off the cable guides on the frame with what appears to be an angle grinder. I was cleaning up the areas that were roughed up by the grinding and it seems that he ground a bit deeper than the actual braze-ons and into the actual tubing of the frame.
There's no problem with wanting to clean up a frame as a prelude to painting. However, nobody seems to do anything the easy way anymore. It's like a Tim Allen routine as they use powertool overkill to do something that could be done quickly, easily, acheaply and well with one of these.
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