Re: [CR]top tube repair

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From: "Rick Chasteen" <rchasteen@kc.rr.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, "Steven m Johnson" <grisha2@juno.com>
References: <20011201.082108.-317787.0.grisha2@juno.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]top tube repair
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 08:08:09 -0600


Joe Breeze was still using this technique 2 years ago when I inquired about having a top tube dent repaired.

Rick Chasteen, Kansas City


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> On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 00:01:54 EST MSCTROSE@aol.com writes:

\r?\n> > He said he could fix it one of two ways: plug both

\r?\n> > ends of

\r?\n> > the top tube and pump in oil and pressure it up until the dent

\r?\n> > popped out,

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Is this procedure still used by any frame builders? I had heard about it

\r?\n> years ago, and a friend wanted to get a top tube dent taken out of an old

\r?\n> Pinarello without replacing the top tube. Nobody we asked had heard of

\r?\n> this, and were basically told it was Bondo or replace the tube.

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Steven M. Johnson, Chesapeake, VA

\r?\n> http://members.home.com/grisha1

\r?\n> http://www.stevenjohnson.com/