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Since it's unanimous., I'm using the second guard :) so I was looking at these holes in the fork
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must have been for a headlight of some sort? I've had this rusty bell for a while and wanted to use it on this bike
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and I noticed that the mounting holes were exactly the same distance apart so...
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add some old brake parts and I've got a lever operated, cable actuated noise making thingy
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this is my first attempt at a video with this phone, hope it works this might or might not end up on the finished bike, just a silly idea I had.... I also got the wheels disassembled tonight, inside surface of the rims look great
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and I'm gonna keep the original paint
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both rims are nice and straight with no dents, all the spokes came out without a fight and I'm hoping all this grease and dirt protected the chrome
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in not sure what bike these wheels came off of, bought em cheap at a swap meet cuz I wanted the rear hub
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but whoever owned it was not stingy with the chain lube...
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all the hub parts are in a bucket of simple green for a couple days, time to order some spokes :)
 
the bell :43:,thats awesome :41:.
 
Ding ding round 3 cool idea . I like that new departure hub .


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Nice Job, those hubs are sweet ! I've got one I almost used also but decided not to go with a skip tooth .


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Love the bell idea, I have a feeling Kingfish did something similar a few years back...

Luke.
Mine was with the water can gangway horn I made. I love how what you did with the bell. That hub is beautiful.
 
I started picking at trying to make all these parts fit together, using this springer fork is gonna mean losing the front fender stay, so I chopped it in half
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and I'm gonna combine it with the top part of the rack bracket
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and I'll have a curved rack mount that I like much better than the straight one
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gotta wait til the bike is back on it's wheels so I can set it level, but you get the idea....
 
Stopped at the hardware store on the way home from work tonight, got some black buttonhead Allen bolts to replace the rivets I drilled out, and brass acorn nuts to attach the two parts of the brace
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here's how it sits now
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. Next I get to see what's under this green paint
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It took a total of about 5 hours over the last few nights but I now have a clean frame
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I found one small dent in the down tube that I can live with, no cracks no breaks no repairs so I should have a good safe bike to ride :) now to stare at it and try to figure out a finish...
 
I think it's time to dredge this up from the depths of page 3, haven't touched it in. 2 weeks. Had to do some house maintainence , some truck maintainence , had a couple late days at work and a couple days of plain laziness. Now I've got to get back to assembling a bike. I've been debating a frame finish that will allow me to keep the original paint on all the parts, went back and forth between bare metal and gray primer and finally decided on bare metal. Taped off some really crude darts to blend with the fork, painting is not my strong point and my least favorite part of bike building so I got this...
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,
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not great up close but it is a rat...
 
Got the headset installed, greased and adjusted. I'm pleasantly surprised how well the rustoleum matches the paint on the fork
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not bad for a five dollar spray can
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next step will be to assemble the wheels and hubs, I don't own a truing stand so I use the frame and fork to hold and true the wheels, gotta do that before final fitment of fenders, here's where I'm at right now...
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