Great self made bike workstand
11-13-12 | 11:47 PM
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I like the idea cuz it would save countless 531 decals plus I really don't care what it would to a CF frame.
11-14-12 | 06:46 AM
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Please help save the 531's
Each year countless 531 decals are destroyed, frames are powder coated or left to rust. Those decals fortunate enough to survive are often destroyed by clamps in the hands or thoughtless technicians. You can save a 531 and help thousands more escape disfigurement. For only a penny a day, that's just $3.65 you can help develop a C&V workstand. (tear drop wells up) A place where decals are safe and tubes are nolonger in fear of being crushed. Please help a defenseless decal , they can't do it themselves.
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Each year countless 531 decals are destroyed, frames are powder coated or left to rust. Those decals fortunate enough to survive are often destroyed by clamps in the hands or thoughtless technicians. You can save a 531 and help thousands more escape disfigurement. For only a penny a day, that's just $3.65 you can help develop a C&V workstand. (tear drop wells up) A place where decals are safe and tubes are nolonger in fear of being crushed. Please help a defenseless decal , they can't do it themselves.
I'm not Sally Fields and I don't approve this message.
11-14-12 | 07:00 AM
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How about a work stand that holds the frame by the bottom bracket shell?
Nah. Have to have the BB out.
I kind of like the "inside the seat tube" idea. Any "production" stands use this method?
Come to think of it, an adapter wouldn't be too hard to make. The expander/wedge idea, but made separately, as a separate unit. Insert into the seat tube, secure, leaving 5 or 6 inches of the fixture exposed above the seat lug, then clamp the fixture in your standard clamp work stand.
Think that would work?
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11-15-12 | 06:11 PM
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Make the whole thing from galvanized pipe use an old seat post clamp with the seat post clamp. With pipe you could easily disassemble for storage. Ed
11-15-12 | 10:00 PM
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How about a work stand that holds the frame by the bottom bracket shell?
Nah. Have to have the BB out.
I kind of like the "inside the seat tube" idea. Any "production" stands use this method?
Come to think of it, an adapter wouldn't be too hard to make. The expander/wedge idea, but made separately, as a separate unit. Insert into the seat tube, secure, leaving 5 or 6 inches of the fixture exposed above the seat lug, then clamp the fixture in your standard clamp work stand.
Think that would work?
11-15-12 | 11:40 PM
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Bikes: hans lutz, , puch mistral ultima,2x Austro Daimler Smoked chrome Ultima,Austro Daimler Mixte,Austro Daimler 531 mixte, flying arrow,F Moser,
I was at the shop not 2 days ago, we had coffee, he had a New SS/Fixie frame in the jig and I offered to build it up,
It was very nice to work with the jig, you have all access and can adjust the height as the arm is adjustable at the table
(2 welded hoops)
we chased the threads in the BB, and that is a heavy tool.
all in all it is a very nice workstand,I said before it is bolted onto a heavy steel bench, I think it is a arbor press
I looked at the details better.
the bent upper arm (top tube)shown is very thick pipe,
the collar or "head tube" is a solid with only a 16mm hole drilled through it.
the knurled lock nut is just that, just a big thick flat piece which is threaded M16
the 2 wedges are just 2 pieced of thick pipe.
it is a really simple setup and works well
It was very nice to work with the jig, you have all access and can adjust the height as the arm is adjustable at the table
(2 welded hoops)
we chased the threads in the BB, and that is a heavy tool.
all in all it is a very nice workstand,I said before it is bolted onto a heavy steel bench, I think it is a arbor press
I looked at the details better.
the bent upper arm (top tube)shown is very thick pipe,
the collar or "head tube" is a solid with only a 16mm hole drilled through it.
the knurled lock nut is just that, just a big thick flat piece which is threaded M16
the 2 wedges are just 2 pieced of thick pipe.
it is a really simple setup and works well
