Originally Posted by
scarlson
Sometimes you can find interesting papers inside frames! A good builder will have soaked the stuffing with liberal amounts of oil or grease.
I will add that I make one exception to the above rule. If the seatpost is hollow and you can see down it, I ram a cork up in there. Not the seat tube, the seat post. I can't fathom why more builders didn't do this back in the day. As far as I know, I'm the only one who does it and I can't see a downside.
Most all CCM bikes from the 30's through to the late 50's have corks in the seatpost.
Originally Posted by
leftthread
This thread title keeps making me hungry.
There's
never leftover stuffing in my world. I even make extra on the stove top and the 4 of us rip and tear Bruno, rip and tear!