Originally Posted by
Mad Honk
Tiger, I find it to be a reasonably durable finish. For example to clean up the braze on bits I need to use some sandpaper or emery cloth to clean the bits down for best fit. Of the ten or so I have has done none of them chipped or were damaged by the rough handling here in the shop. They have fallen on the concrete floor and gotten no scratches or scuffs. I would recommend a coat of Meguire's wax before assembling the bike. It brings out the shine of the finish a bit. I will be starting a build thread of my latest frame that went in for PC. maybe it will help a bit. Smiles, MH
Good to know; perhaps I was/am over-cautious but, anyway, the bottle of Liquid Electrical Tape will be here tomorrow so I'll stall. Yes, all five frames I am doing got a coat of Maguiar's Gold Class already, perhaps a second coat once assembled -- yeah, it really improves the shine. Funny you should mention the concrete floor; when I got them home from he coater, I had them rowed up in the basement and, inevitably, they all fell over like dominoes.
Two had such tiny marks in the finish I probably could have ignored it, but I touched them up anyway.
Originally Posted by
Andy_K
The one problem I've had is cracking of clear coat around brazed on downtube shifter bosses. It seems it there's too much build up there, and maybe a little pocket of air, things can crank when you put on the shifters or (in my case) bolt on cable stop adapters.
Thanks for the warning, I'll watch for that. Of the five frames, two have brazed-on DT bosses, two are set up for clamp-on shifters -- and one is a track bike.