Originally Posted by
Velognome
Perfect! So every trade, every part found, cleaned and painted will be an improvement! This hobby can get addictive.....I sense this 3spd of yours will just prove to be the tip of your iceberg!
Ah, yes, definitely there's an iceberg. This project has been stalled and I hope with its completion I will have more fun and less procrastination ahead. I picked up a
Dawes Kingpin last night. It is a rusty mess as well, but lighter than I would have thought. Am thinking maybe a new 8 speed hub... dare I speak of such a thing here...
Originally Posted by
conradpdx
Then you have to carefully work the creases out with with hammer and dies, I usually do this on a sandbag. Of course then on a painted surface you'd have to repaint as the torch would burn the paint off...
...I can usually get the heat method to take about half the dent out before the pounding starts.
Thanks for sharing your expertise and for a great idea with the sandbag; I will try this. I have most of the dent out, but am not quite satisfied. Between the tricks you all have shared and the more realistic expectations you've granted me, I hope to have this on the road soon, and will follow with pictures... perhaps hazy ones to hide the remaining rust!
One thing I can share that may help someone is that Bike Works NYC on Ridge St had an original chrome chainguard which we snapped up, and he had other goodies too at least at the time, and the shop was a fun (and I would say 3-spd-friendly) place. You may be right that we will find better fenders some day, maybe in a similar way.