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Rickman Racing Pro - 'Rusty Rick'

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Chez-6:
 :daumenhoch: looks like the Ugly ducking might just turn into a Swan after all, Great Work  :4_17_5:

Jaymz:
Come on martin get it in the citric

dinglem:
Bath is on the way.... Currently en route to work though so there will be a bit of a progress delay for the time being. I was in a rush to break it down to F&F state as I have dropped it off with the guys who helped restore our early Mini. They are very sympathetic and have agreed to dip the frame for me so hopefully I'll have some results piccies soon  :coolsmiley: I didn't trust myself doing my first citric bath on this particular example!

I should just also add how much of a blind pig the seatpost removal was... ended up cutting it off an inch above the frame, filing down the back of the inner seatpost to create a groove and then carefully sawing in said groove with a hacksaw blade right to the bottom of the seatpost, crushing it inwards once cut and then pulling it out. We put a solid bar in the top inch and closed a vice hard onto it, then hammered the frame off it using a block of wood (and lots of WD40).

MartyC:
Looking forward to seeing this one come back to life!

dinglem:
Just a quick observation as I have seen several posts elsewhere saying there is no date code for Rickman Racing frames.

Mine starts with 25 001 on the first line, which signifies a race frame. 25 002, or 003, or 004 signifies the various levels of freestyle frames.

I am there told the lower line of the serial number is the frame number itself.

In my case I have 065 08 on the second line.

Now to me that signifies a June '85 frame based on the first 3 digits, as per the Ammaco date stamping pattern. Having looked at all of the other Rickman frame serial numbers I can find online they exhibit the same pattern, with the first 3 digits showing would could represent a month and year pattern corresponding to an '84 or '85 timing. The space and subsequent number means mine is the 8th frame made that month.

My question is to all of the other Rickman owners... could you please post up whether you have a stamping that doesn't fit in with this pattern? I guess we're looking at numbers higher than 12 for the first two digits and not a 4 or a 5 (or a 6?) for the year??? I could have course be wrong but I haven't seen an example that doesn't fit this pattern yet....

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