Originally Posted by
T-Mar
The faux horizontal dropout is an interesting solution to fixed chain gap, though a standard vertical dropout would have saved some weight. At least it has a drewing outline for the fixie/SS crowd.
Yeah, those dropout's I have found are on price point bikes where a quality forged dropout is too expensive. weaker steel but mo' meat and all is good.
To the original poster, not a killer nor something to try to unwind the sale over, poor packing and gorilla freight are much more probable of doing that.
The rust appears surface, remove, replace or remove, clean, lube and replace. Depending on the art, love, time and money equation result.
I have made much more sizable ebay buying errors. So it goes.
Probably gave him much more to keep the anxiety up.