Dent repair

[Mr Panda]

I have a 1995ish Orange P7 frame in nickel finish with a luverly big (about the size of a 1p coin accross) dent right in the middle of the top tube Frame is otherwise in excellent condition

If the finish wasn't shiney nickel, I probably wouldn't bother with the dent but this one is REALLY obvious and annoying. Thinking about filling and covering it with sticker etc.
Alternative would be to fill and paint with close match finish for the nickel, but i've not seen anything which would blend in that well.

Not worried about strength of tube - its fine......

any ideas :?:

 

[SEANSTEPHENS]

why not fill it yourself and put a tange sticker over it

(asuming your orange is made from tange)

 

[tiboltrider]

Make ya self a nice Cosmic Trail stylee top tube pad out of some fluro material and pipe lagging :shock:





... not very useful I know :roll:

 

[SEANSTEPHENS]

okaaaaaaaaaaay then......... moving on :roll:

 

[tiboltrider]

okaaaaaaaaaaay then......... moving on :roll:

I'll get some help :?

 

[Raymond_mole]

you could get it stripped,brazed, fettled and renickle plated

at a cost

 

[perry]

have a look at painless/paintless or something like that dent removal

basically involves lots of metal rods put behind the panel ( or in your case hopefully through the headtube hole ) and massaging the ding out from the other side

 

[Mr Panda]

Holey Shmoley! Did a search on Paintless dent removal and found loads of u-tube stuff showing how to remove dents from car bodywork using dry ice, popcorn, and/or a variety of tools

Inspired by this lunacy I have just spent 10 minutes massaging a packet of Birds Eye Succulent Petits Pois around my top tube

.....and guess what - its working This is a photo of a much reduced dent.....metal contracting due to cold etc. Its better by about 30% - 40% I'd say

....I'm now seriously considering putting the frame into the big freezer tonight if the P's can't bring it out any further. Or liqiud nitrogen - where can I get that?

 

[orange71]

could do with a before photo there. I was going to suggest fill and cover with sticker, which is what I've done on my RSP M-Trax 450 that has 853 tubing. However having seen that I might try another method :shock:

 

[FairfaxPat]

I posted this fix last year to a similar question-- A long time ago I had a chrome plated Eddie Soens track bike frame with a large dent in the top tube. Joe Breeze fixed it for me. He had a fitting he had made which was a solid plug to insert in the head tube. This plug had an L shaped hole through it that went from the top (when inserted in the head tube) to a right angle turn to come out at the middle of the top tube. The hole in the plug had a relief cut and an O-ring inserted for a seal on the inside hole and was drilled and tapped for an automotive grease fitting on the outside of the top hole. With a drill he made a hole inside the head tube into the top tube and lined up the fitting with it. Then he filled the top tube of the frame with oil, re-inserted the fitting and used a grease gun full of grease on the other end of the fitting (the outside top) and pumped up the pressure until the dent popped out! All that was left was to drain the oil out of the top tube and reassemble the now perfect bike-even the chrome was perfect!