Rod brake doings.

[Ted Schefelbein]

This one is currently burning up my spare time. Going to try to do some lining with a Bugler wheel with metallic gold. Should look nice.

Ted

[John Sharpe]

Wow! Amazing work your doing there Ted, very impressive. I don't think my '61 Sports will turn out nearly as nice, but it will be better than what I started from. Hope you took some before pics, I never do.

JohnS

[Barry Hans]

The frame is nice, but that vise, That's a thing of beauty! 

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[Ted Schefelbein]

John,

Ever give a guy $10 for a bike frame, a fork, and a pile of rod brake bike parts, and, as you were sorting through the crap a few days later, realized he got a far, far, far, better deal than than you did? I have before pictures, but resist looking at them as it brings that all home. 

The bike is a rider. It was used, hard, by English embassy staff at a few far flung outposts. The paint is glossy, but, it’s an old beat up bike.

Barry, a well mounted vise is critical in the shop. I use it daily.  

Ted

[John Sharpe]

Well, I haven't had the $10 bike deal for a while, but I have been upside down as far as time/money invested in a bike that would never be paid back other than the fun I had in doing the working and the owner's enjoyment.

So that's the original paint? I've had very good experiences with deep cleaning, light polishing and a couple coats of wax on a Raleigh and a Phillips that I had worked on some 12-15 years ago. Hoping that the case with the '61 sports. I like using Griot's Garage paint cleaning clay for the deep cleaning step, it really does a great job of pulling the dirt out of the paint.

JohnS

[Ted Schefelbein]

John,

No. That is a quart can of Rustoleum gloss black, thinned with enamel reducer, and sprayed on an old bike frame. I wasn’t interested in putting a bunch of plastic body filler and $150 worth of automotive base coat/clear coat on a late 70s 26” wheel Roadster frame. But, I wasn’t interested in getting rusty hands when I picked it up, either.

I can (and, have) done better work, but, the bike has to be a bit more dear to me to drive that effort. That wasn’t this bike. I can’t believe how expensive automotive paint and related supplies have become in the last few years. This International I dragged out of a shed and put back on the road after it sat for two decades likely wouldn’t get that treatment, again, at least not from me. My fun money does have a limit.

Ted