Originally Posted by
CMAW
Well actually I don't think there's much rust around, the frame has a rust-colored primer. Thats what you see under the paint chips.
the reason I said there was rust is that the crack in the shell (which I didn't see before) is leading from a place where someone had a bad day and didn't completely braze the shell to the seat tube. There is no paint in that area to keep it from rusting inside the bb shell socket.