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Title: info needed on claude butler (cbr) panic bmx
Post by: scott30 on June 28, 2011, 01:00 AM
Hi all i have a claude butler panic bmx which i need info on ive anyone has got any or knows where i can get it would be great the problem i have is the fame and forks has some rust looking markings in it which look like there original to the frame anyone got any idea what it is dont think its rust as its been like it since i got it any help would be great thanks  :daumenhoch:  scott (http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y363/scottjess30/DSC00108-1.jpg)(http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y363/scottjess30/DSC00107.jpg)(http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y363/scottjess30/DSC00106.jpg)(http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y363/scottjess30/DSC00108.jpg)(http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y363/scottjess30/DSC00105.jpg)(http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y363/scottjess30/DSC00104.jpg)(http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y363/scottjess30/DSC00103.jpg)
Title: Re: info needed on claude butler (cbr) panic bmx
Post by: Betty on June 28, 2011, 10:19 AM
Factory raw frame dude the rainbow marks around the welds are from the heat while welding

It'll have a clear lacquer coating that cracks and peels letting moisture in and it goes rusty, (the squiggly lines)

They start out like this....

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m48/markw33/28-04-10006.jpg)

And end up like this....

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m48/markw33/b0dc9b99.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m48/markw33/af566e8b.jpg)

Nowt you can do unless you keep it dry and clean...  :-\
Title: Re: info needed on claude butler (cbr) panic bmx
Post by: scott30 on June 29, 2011, 12:10 AM
Thanks for the info Betty so it is rust then dam i thought it wasnt so whats it worth then and does anyone know the year it was made

thanks scott
Title: Re: info needed on claude butler (cbr) panic bmx
Post by: HEYWOOD BMX on June 29, 2011, 09:53 AM
 :) Prob made in the last 5/6 years and worth very little.OK for a runabout though... :daumenhoch:
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