Chuffstah, Done! Page 4

[Gdcast]

[Gdcast]

Mmmm... that last post is quite bipolar...

[jackdaw]

Yeah well, so am I!!! What did you want pics of? I'm going to be posting in Fresh Finds after I get some food in me. I could take some progress pics.

[Gdcast]

Progress pics!!!!
That could work!

[jackdaw]

Here's some of what I've been working on. I found these dropout extensions at the dump. I don't know what they are, they are 1/8"+ thick galvanized steel. I think they must have come off a boat, they had stainless bolts through one of the holes. All the empty holes were already in the plates, they look wicked adjustable! I found four altogether. I used 3/8" bolts to bolt them into the dropout. There was a little slop so it was a pain to get them lined up to one another. I made a slot for the axle for tension adjustment, didn't take much.



I'm pretty happy with how my chainring and crank came out. The chainring is off a 10 speed, I cut the "spider" off the little chainring. I don't know why a bike from the early 80's had a skip tooth chainring except that it was punched out and wicked cheap. I sanded the chrome with my hand and a sander and a Dremel and eventually got through enough of it that my pickle juice would work. A little of the chrome is left, alot of the copper also, I got lucky, there was a very thick layer of copper. On the crank I used a 40 grit disc on my angle grinder to grind all the chrome off. I really like the texture, and the color that came up after the juice is good also.




These are what hold the truss rods to the handlebars, you'll recognize them as Wald stems, with the stem cut off. Again I ground, filed, sanded and cussed until the chrome came off enough to pickle the steel to that flat gray color that I like. These stems were very different, the chrome was different colors and thicker on the one on the left. It made getting the patina to match difficult, not helped by making a new batch of juice between them. The one on the left has not been pickled yet in this picture. It worked well though and now they look quite close.



Here's the pickle, salt water, vinegar and hydrogen peroxide. About half salt water, 3/8ths vinegar and an 1/8th peroxide. I guess. I don't really remember. If I keep doing this I'll have to get scientific and stuff . I check what I put in pretty often, the truss rod clamp took about 1/2 hour in new solution, when it gets old it takes alot longer. I scrub it off in hot soapy water when it's dome and give it a good coat of oil.



Here's a picture of my winter shop, the end of it anyway, not fully moved in yet. Pretty nice but my wife doesn't like the fumes and I have to be quiet sometimes , better than freezing.



Here's my chainring spacing problem, I've gotten some feedback on how to fix it but I don't know which I'm going to do yet. In order to get the chainring away from the frame I had to put spacers between it and the shoulder on the crank. That worked fine except now I don't have enough threads left on the off side for a lock nut . The chainline is OK. I may try a MTB crank, apparently they are wider or I may dimple the frame. I will find out, however, how far you can ride without a locknut before it all goes wrong!




I'm going to have three days off for Thanksgiving so it should be done then. (yeah right!!)

Thanks for looking. Cheers

[Gdcast]

Great! Thanks for posting those pics!!!

[OUTLAW]

nice job an nice shop.

Outlaw

[OUTLAW]

here ya go. bumpin it up.lol. nice build. have a great T DAY.

Outlaw

[Dr. Tankenstein]

Did you try putting spacers between the spider and the chainring and using longer bolts? That would push the sprocket away from the frame and get your threads back in your crank.

Just an idea....

Cheers,
Dr. T

[jackdaw]

Did you try putting spacers between the spider and the chainring and using longer bolts? That would push the sprocket away from the frame and get your threads back in your crank.

Just an idea....

Cheers,
Dr. T

Oh, yeah.. that'll get me part way there. Thanks! I haven't gotten anything more done and now I'm too full. I still got tomorrow off though so there's hope yet!

[jackdaw]

here ya go. bumpin it up.lol. nice build. have a great T DAY.

Outlaw

Thanks man, you too!

[jackdaw]

Hopefully this is the last thing to take care of. I'm sure there will be little stuff but...

I've been struggling with this seat for too long now. What a pain. It has gotten me mad a couple times, I try not to throw things but sometimes..GRRRRR.

Here is the seat without it's cover, I bent the front in so it would lay down on the top tube, trying to get it low.





The mounting flanges? had to be bent so they would fit over the seat tube, which I left to catch the seat from going too far down. The flange is quite sturdy! GRRRRR! It had to go back far enough that I couldn't use the regular collar to bolt the flange to and the flange wouldn't have fit over the collar anyway.



The back, bent to clear the tire, hopefully there will be enough room for the cover to go on without rubbing.



This is the mount that I came up with, it'll be drilled to take a bolt through the flange and there will probably be a tubing spacer to keep it from squishing out, up, off, whatever. GRRRRRRRRR!!!



Here's the other side of this problem. This all has to line up but if you move one thing everything else has to be moved so if you made a bracket or whatever it has to be remade.



I don't like that it all seems sort if scabbed together, but I'm coming up on time so.. I suppose that more black paint will tie it all together.
It's the angles, with the sissy bar and the seat, I can't bolt the sissy bar right to the seat because the sissy bar would have to lay way back. That's a temporary bracket, I'll make a heavier one that is smoothed in.

So that's where I am, I go back to work tomorrow but I get off at 3:30 so I should be able to get some stuff done. Gotta go now have dinner with my mother in law.

[jackdaw]

Cribbing from thirdcoastpedaler and his awesome El Guapo build, I had my wife pick out some images for these pedals. She uses found images in her art so it was no trouble for her. I am very happy with what she came up with.

from the Space Shuttle cockpit:


aw nuts!


patina


and of course...SPRAY BOMBS!!


I'm really closing in on it now, the seat is about figured out. Arrrgh, so close, it's killin' me!

[OUTLAW]

I like the pedals. very kool.

Outlaw

[OUTLAW]

Jack, that huffman looks like a good STREET DIGGER II build. get it done. that is a nice bike.

Outlaw