Pre heat frame before cold setting?
09-22-12 | 03:50 PM
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Pre heat frame before cold setting?
I have a Surly frame (4130) with a pretty bad kink in the downtube. Its probably shot, but I'd like to try to bend it back. Does it make sense to heat the steel before cold setting? Not necessarily with a blow torch - I was thinking of using my heat gun which can easily get it hot to the touch, but not red hot by any means. Would that help?
I know the various risks and problems from reading other posts and previous experience.
I know the various risks and problems from reading other posts and previous experience.
09-22-12 | 03:59 PM
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Do not heat the frame, if you try to unkink it do it cold. The heat gun won't get the metal hot enough to cause any phase changes, not that you want to have that happen anyway. Can you post a shot or two? The beauty of 4130 is it's resiliency and toughness. If the frame's alignment is not damaged it might be best to leave things as is. Andy.
09-23-12 | 05:00 PM
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Thanks for the advice. Here's some pictures. The head tube angle is pretty messed up, so I'm going to try to bend it back. I'll post results.
09-23-12 | 08:27 PM
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09-24-12 | 06:34 AM
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09-26-12 | 07:12 PM
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Go for it. It's not rideable or fixable, so it doesn't really matter.
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09-27-12 | 12:47 PM
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One partial salvage idea that might be interesting for that frame, cut-off the DT and TT a couple inches from the BB and seat cluster and throw away the forward kinked section of the triangle. Have a framebuilder re-construct an new front triangle as a break-apart folding travle bike with couplers to join the old and new together.
10-03-12 | 04:40 PM
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A second option would be to straighten out the frame then add a patch over the dented/kinked area. Not a pretty solution and not one that I would do unless i was stranded in a situation that required the bike to be rideable.
I do agree that the dent is too kinked for further use without some further remedy. Andy.
I do agree that the dent is too kinked for further use without some further remedy. Andy.
10-03-12 | 05:55 PM
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just out of morbid curiosity....how did the frame get in that condition?
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