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1987 GT Pro Freestyle Tour (Friday fun purchase!)
PHIL9HUF:
Quality mate :daumenhoch:
Mint Power series and 474s :4_17_5:
Turning out to be a crackin resto this for a fun buy :daumenhoch:
deeman:
Looks fantastic Alan...surely just tightening the standers gradually will pull 'em into shape?
tfi_friday:
--- Quote from: deeman on August 26, 2016, 03:52 AM ---Looks fantastic Alan...surely just tightening the standers gradually will pull 'em into shape?
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I don't fancy trashing the powder coat, but the gap is pretty huge. I also think rather than pull the stander in when tightened, it will have the effect that it will rotate up off the chain stay instead.
Anyway, I managed to solve it and keep the powder intact (on the bike and frame stander) :)
It actually needed a little precision engineering to get it sorted.
So here's the problem...
With the frame stander sitting on the chainstay the gap to the drop out was about a centimetre. I tried two different sets and the problem was the same for both.
So I figured if I can widen the part that sits on the chain stay, it should sit flush, or at least sit closer to be able to tighten it down. So time to use that precision engineering to widen it.
Meet the Persuader...
Just a block of wood and a mallet.
Hand -> Mallet -> Block of wood -> FrameStander -> ThickRag -> Corner of workbench :knuppel2:
Did it in small steps to get it to the point it sat flush
Frame stander on the Left is has the original shape, the one on the Right is widened.
Thankfully the powder didn't chip or crack and now it all sits like it should.
Andyboy77:
It's so nice to follow this thread and see this lovely bike growing. :daumenhoch: Great work Alan!
tfi_friday:
--- Quote from: Andyboy77 on August 27, 2016, 10:30 AM ---It's so nice to follow this thread and see this lovely bike growing. :daumenhoch: Great work Alan!
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Nice to hear, always fun to document the builds... Although progress has been a bit slow due to the demands of a 1 and 3 year old lol
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