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kowalski:
finally picked her up today from the friendly dispatch type persons, after a long old wait and an extra 50 quid import tax(choker) i can now get to work on my first resto!!!! chrome is not in the worst state however there are a few deep gauges on one side of the downtube which were not all shown by the seller but will hopefully get covered by decals, other than that the minor stratches should (with a lot of rubbing and autosol) come out i hope!!!! any info on the frame will be welcome any advice on small but deep scratches gratefully accepted also many thanks to everyone on here who has helped and advised me so far:daumenhoch:                      oh and can someone please tell me how the hell you get the top and bottom bit of the old headset off , please :) at least i think thats what it is?????

GREMLIN:
Nice 1 m8. Lovely isn't it ?
Where the headtube is flared at the ends it's hard to get in behind the cups from inside the headtube isn't it?
I used my trusty block of soft'ish wood on the outside of the headtube (butted up against the cup). Then twatted the end of the wood at different points til the cup had moved out enough that i could get my socket extension bar in behind the cup inside the headtube. Then finished em off.  :daumenhoch:   G.

To be honest tho m8. I don't know what others would think. But if the headset cups are in decent enough condition it may be worth leaving them in and using them with your Beartrap set. I may have with mine but the cups left in the frame were pretty mullered.  Just a thought.

kowalski:
cheers mr g, i thought a bit of wood would be in order, they are not completely mullered but seeing as the beartraps are brand new i may as well give it a go, shame about the deep nics on the downtube, im just hoping the old cut and shut decals cover them, looks like im going for that look now if i like it or not!!! :daumenhoch:

moohan:
you sure it aint a cut and shut frame mr kowalski,you better get your work bench in the bathroom as you spend so much time in there. :Aresehole: :10_2_12:

ps i hope thats not my mint speedy j cd on your carpet :knuppel2: :knuppel2:

GREMLIN:
The decals should cover the nics on your frame m8. I've one tiny little nick on the downtube also. But mines dead center on top of the tube. If i managed to get a set of red/yellow fade decals it would've been covered. So for now it still shows. I can live with it for now tho.   ;)  G.

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