A Kona to keep....? Doubtful with me! '95 Cindy content.....

[LikeClockwork]

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Hmm, just back from work and had a quick look with a torch, don't think it's a crack but will need to check it out. Guess the best thing to do as soon as I have the time is wire brush and rub down all the rusty areas and check properly.

In all fairness, if the amount of rust and crust, and the seat tube crease, had been described, I wouldn't have gone for it, probably at any price. But there you go, the bits and bobs with it should net me back most of what I paid, if I was so inclined. But then again, I didn't really want another wall hanger, had enough cracked and broken Kona's over the years... :facepalm:

 

[LikeClockwork]

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Managed to very quickly get my little wire brush and some emery over the worst of the rust this morning, need to do a better job but doesn't look like a crack at the seat stay bridge, just found the copper colour of the braze? And the rest on quick inspection seemed to be fairly surface, not deeply destructive, rust.

Can I ask people's opinions on how bad rust has to be to render a frame unsafe? Is it the potential for it to have rusted through to a hole in the crucial areas around BB shell, etc....??

 

[kyle888]

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From the photos the bb area looks pretty bad and the bridge there. Its very scabby where the welds are.

 

[elPedro666]

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Know it's a pain, but a trip to a local blaster's to get it back to bare metal is probably the only way to sort it. Shouldn't cost much though...

 

[The History Man]

I would use a dremel with small wire brush head to strip it away then treat it if enough left.

 

[LikeClockwork]

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Thanks chaps, have started a separate thread re. this..... viewtopic.php?f=1&t=341103

Only real solution is just to get at it when time allows and see what is really underneath! Have a fairly vast array of tools so will probably resort to those before a shot blast....

 

[LikeClockwork]

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OK....so Storm Imogen has stopped me achieving much outside today (although she is hardly any worse than what we had here Saturday that never even got a mention...) so I decided to bring my bike stand inside and do some 'art work' to cover up the diabolically bad painting on the Cindy.

Story is, I got it back to bare metal (did do a better job after the pics taken), primed it (badly) and then couldn't get Rover Kingfisher Blue, as no one has owned a Rover in that colour since 1993. So popped in to local art shop and got some very cheap tins of Humbrol, various blues, none of which, it turned out, were a very good match, even after mixing some of them together.....

But the important thing is, it has paint on it now, so however bad it looks, it shouldn't rust through again for a while, and as there's lots of chips and scrapes all over, the rat look isn't going to matter. I may add a few more flowers, then again, the cranks for him have lettering that could be enameled, so I may do that instead.... :mrgreen:

 

[The History Man]

Well I think that's a highly original solution to a nasty problem you had. There won't be another one like it.

I hope you smile every time you look at it.

And I'll have a fiver's worth of whatever you were smoking at the time.

 

[LikeClockwork]

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I have a plan to 'blend' it all in a lot better, but then again, it's mine, and I don't care how bad it looks, at least the main frame and decals are intact enough for it to be recognised for a '95 Cindy in original paint. Well, mostly original paint....

It pretty much owes me nothing now and at the end of the day, no one will ever want to nick it. Especially as I also subtly painted my name on the top tube....

 

[Muddy paw]

Not too shabby then by the looks of it and that so called crack that wasn't one which is quite a common thing on old neglected frames and nothing to worry about most of the times . i can remember many moons ago when i was tidying a back garden for a neighbour that i spotted a vintage bike frame practically hidden with grass and looked black in colour but imagine my surprise when i went to pick it up only to find nothing but bits of rust in my hands and a collapsed frame on the ground ..

Any how i love the art work and at least their's less chance of the rust eating at the frame now ..