Mad Honk 

I'm beginning to think Kurt's bike frame has a life of it's own. After repairing the clamp ears and reshaping them it was time to tackle the "Patina" on the top tube. About two hours of steel rust removal and paint clean up on the top tube and It got a first coat of sealing primer. A bit more of finish sanding with water paper and then hoping I have the paint mix right to actually match the 30 year old sun-bleached paint. After today's work it looks a bit more like a bike and not a rust bucket.

The front lug was damaged by a spray bomb paint job and could not be brought back to original paint without damage, so It will be recoated. Top tube underside where rust blooms were forming, after mitigation and primer coat.

The ears came out fairly clean and a couple of pinholes in the welds were tidied up.

There was a large rust area about four inches long on this side of the top tube. Totally removed and ready for final coatings.