Recent content by kingfish254

It was a light scrubbing with the first scrub brush and cleaner that were handy. Stiff car tire brush and what was left of some Fantastic all purpose cleaner. There was a ton of ancient grease and crud buildup around the BB, so I used some scraper edges to free it up for cleaning. More cleaning...

Does anyone need a build name for an off road build?

Murray built brazing

I kinda like how the Traditional and Unlimitted builds are all in the same sub-forum this year. It should lend itself well for more cross-pollenation of views and comments. 23 total builds already!!

Me too. Yes, they did come loose easier than I expected. I had already sprayed them with a little PB Blaster when I brought the frame home. I expected more of a fight. The crank nuts moved pretty freely. I only had the cut the crank arm because the weld was fat and ugly.

No, they are original. You can see on on the headtube as well. There are a few bikes back then that had these. I agree about the grease going all over inside thought.

I'm happy with the outcome of day 1. End result is a semi cleaned frame only that I can now experiment with.

Got to try out my dewalt portable work table i found on fb marketplace for twenty bucks. This thing turned out to be awesome for bike work super easy to apply clamps to secure the work. As I cut off the welded crank and broke loose the bb and fork nuts, I also took some pics of how beautiful my...

I remember now that this was rough when I received it. The seller snapped the handlebar stem in half inside the fork and didn't even mention it. Also the nondrive side crank arm had been welded on crooked at some time. I had forgotten that the frame had the grease fittings

Did a light scrub to get rid of some of the multi year layers of dirt grease and dust.

He really was a great guy. Big heart and mad skills.

This frame has more curves that Jayne Mansfield.

I'm lucky that Queenfish does such a great job keeping my bike building/staging area so pretty!!! :D

Great to see your rebooted version back in the fun and building brother!

Wow, that is a great collection of bits and baubles to build something fun and cool with!