Rusty steel YETI frame? Donor frame? Pipe benders?Help!!!!

[slimjoe]

Ok im going to...

After some good advice from a RETROBIKE member, ive decided to hang

fire and keep looking for someone who can bend me a new driveside

loopstay or keep a lookout for a donor frame :roll:

Again, folks please let me know if you stumble across anything which

may help

 

[Anthony]

I take it you've asked Yeti if they could repair it? What was their advice?

It's not just bending a tube presumably, as it's not as though double-length stay tubing is readily available, so they must have ordered it on a custom basis BITD?

 

[slimjoe]

Yeti

I contacted YETI first, but they only do alloy and were not very helpfull

Bit of a bummer this one

Seems like a complete no goer in the loopstay department..

I also gotta consider the job being cost effective, as in, not being more than just picking up another mint condition YETI frame :roll:

Ill keep this post updated with my progress

 

[billinjah]

cant rody help? tried argos mate? im sure if argos could get the correct tubing you could find someone to bend it for you specialist metal workers maybe? then back to argos to weld it up im sure this can be sorted! As my old man says if its been made once we can make it again!

 

[JeRkY]

As above, there are plenty of companies that can do tube bending. I think I used to use a firm called malton laser (do laser cutting but think they also did bending...either that or im thinking of a different supplier altogether)

http://www.maltonlaser.com/Home

If it was them i was thinking of, simply supply them with a drawing of the part needed, including extra run off length and let em rip.

 

[Inigo Montoya]

there is a nice yeti restore story here (sorry german):
http://www.mtb-classic.de/html/bike-restauration.html
it says he payed a guy called Karsten Gleiss www.gleiss-rahmenbau.de to exchange the seat tube of his Yeti FRO 1990. he's driving it ever since...

 

[slimjoe]

Whow..

That is a nice example of a yeti

man i soooo, want one

or at least mine fixed :!:

 

[Anthony]

Going back to the point about double-length stay tubing not being available, maybe it would be easier for a frame repairer to start with standard seat and chain stays and bend and fuse them together, rather than try to exactly mimic the Yeti design? Custom tubing is expensive, but just one example of standard pricing is $36 for seat plus chainstays in basic True Temper Verus. That's just the tubes, you're going to have to find a good welder, but my guess is it's going to be too expensive unless you use readily-available materials and find somebody with the flair and sympathy to make it as much like a Yeti as possible.

I'm sure everybody on this site will give you a big thumbs up if you can pull it off. This project is what Retrobike is all about IMHO.

 

[monsterfatuk]

hiya mate can`t you cut the rust out and tig in a new piece of tube,once it`s welded in place and ground down you won`t know the difference check out the picture of this yo eddy,not all the tube was replaced just the rusty bit

 

[slimjoe]

Yep..

My only concern is that the rust is right on the bend of the stay assembly..

And if it was cut out and a piece tigged in, the piece would still need bending :roll:

Also this is a major structural point of the back end..

My fingers and toes are crossed that someone will see this and have what i need to do it

Thanks for all your ideas and great advice people