Thank you! These are really great videos. I was a carpenter in my working life (72 now) but have always cycled. I just love watching the beautiful metal working skills as applied to repairing these frames. This is such a breath of fresh air in this throw away, mass produced era. Great work!
I once made the same mistake of putting a bike away for the winter, after a rainy ride. It ruined a Chorus bottom bracket, but didn't harm the frame, because I treated the insides of the tubes with linseed oil. After that, I removed the bolt that held on the cable guide, under the bottom bracket shell. I kept the guide on with a little hot glue.
I once had a frame in with a cracked seat tube halfway and it turned out the customer had stuffed paper down it to stop water collecting in the bottom bracket. He'd inadvertently caused it to rust halfway up instead!
Fabulous video Paul! Really interesting design improvement you made too (externally butted seat tube). Who was the original builder? DO you know. It's not an old Claud Butler is it?
That's a brilliant idea, I'm sure there are a lot of people who would love this premium access to longer videos and would be willing to pay for it!!!
Thank you! These are really great videos. I was a carpenter in my working life (72 now) but have always cycled. I just love watching the beautiful metal working skills as applied to repairing these frames. This is such a breath of fresh air in this throw away, mass produced era. Great work!
Repairability is really the main reason I love steel frames so much!
Nice work!
Nice work
great video, great channel, all the best for christmas and new year 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌
Excellent work! I haven't had an idea that steel frames are repairable. Sometimes my heart is bleeding watching big cracks on columbus frames.
Happy New Year!
Great job - looks awesome!
Love your videos, wish they were longer. Merry Christmas 🎅
Well we will be doing longer more detailed videos on Patreon soon
So I guess these frames can go on for ever how green is that
It's very green and sustainable. 👍
Nice work! I would definitely be into a patreon type arangement for the more in-depth videos.
Well if there is enough interest we'd love to!
Me too!
I once made the same mistake of putting a bike away for the winter, after a rainy ride. It ruined a Chorus bottom bracket, but didn't harm the frame, because I treated the insides of the tubes with linseed oil. After that, I removed the bolt that held on the cable guide, under the bottom bracket shell. I kept the guide on with a little hot glue.
I once had a frame in with a cracked seat tube halfway and it turned out the customer had stuffed paper down it to stop water collecting in the bottom bracket. He'd inadvertently caused it to rust halfway up instead!
@@ellisbriggsbikes With your repair plus paint, that would be an expensive mistake.
Well yes. That's just one of the benefits of watching my channel, hopefully I'll help people avoid some of these mishaps
Fabulous video Paul! Really interesting design improvement you made too (externally butted seat tube). Who was the original builder? DO you know. It's not an old Claud Butler is it?
Not sure who the original builder was to be honest. Anyway it should be good for a while longer now!