RB wrote:
> It seems to me though, that maybe just filling the dents with braze or other
> metal might be the ticket. You can still re-chrome that. Again, you'd have
> to ask a metallurgist whether this would weaken the tube. You're talking a
> custom drawn piece of steel here, with a very thin wall. If you were just
> painting it (not chroming it), and you were going to keep the bike (it would
> not be right to sell it after), then maybe just (ack!) Bondo, to insure the
> tube would not be damaged.
I'm not a big fan of Bondo. After you've spent mucho $$$ repainting after you repair the dent, the last thing you want to happen is have the Bondo fall out. Which happens all too often.
I've found the best stuff to fill dents is lead solder. It has a very low melting point, well below that of even silver solder, files easily, and doesn't come out.
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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA