Originally Posted by
Bonejaw
looking for my cam currently.... Will have some up tomorrow at the latest. The joints seem to be fine... i have looked at them and have rode the bike many times on long rides. No odd noises like creaking or anything. I also got the stem and fork out after i started this thread today by using a metal rod and tapping the stem out.
I also tracked a company down the re-glues Vitus frames and spoke to a guy who said to wet paint the bike instead of power coating it because the heat from the curing process would damage or destroy the epoxy holding the tubes together.
Anyhow let me go find that camera
Uhmmm....lets get everything straight first. From what we see in your pics, what you have there is a
steel frame made from a Reynolds 453 tubeset and Vitus dropouts and maybe Simplex or Vitus(?) lugs. The steel frame and lugs are bronze or silver brazed together not glued, so you can forget talking to the Vitus aluminum frame "specialist". As the previous poster also noted, it looks like you have a very conventional crank and bottom bracket. Any bike shop with a competent mechanic can remover the drank with a "common" cotterless, tapered square axle, crank puller, unless the threads around the crank bolt openingwere are damaged that a puller cannot be attached to the crank. A good mechnanic will have a way around such problems though.
I suggest you take your frame to a bike shop if you havenent and they can give you most of the useful infromation you need to deal with you restoration. But we are still all glad to help if we can on this forum. Thankfully you were able to post pics of your bike and we can redirect your restoration process as needed.
BTW, you should be able to powdercoat this frame without any problems. There is no glue betwen the lugs and tubes to worry about. Just srtip off the paint and clean off ALL the rust from it and a powdercoater can do their magic on it.
Chombi
84 Peugeot PSV