Author Topic: FIXED the Frame...thank god! (Read 5832 times)

jinder · « **on:** July 03, 2005, 10:30:01 am »

I broke my frame....BUT

I got her all fixed up from the best welder in Town. My 957 is back with a few battle scars but nothing too bad for a old timer of a machine.

Man, LESSON LEARNED! [smiley=disbelief.gif]

He said the welds just need 24 hours to set, after that its ready for action!

BEFORE

Frankd3000 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 03, 2005, 12:47:03 pm »

MURDERER!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, I mean - are you alright?

??

No, really, are you alright? I hope you didn't, ummm, injure "anything".

I'm out of my league with welding. Ask Terry (shovelon) - he does this stuff for a living.

Again, I hope you're okay. That's my concern.

jinder · « **Reply #2 on:** July 03, 2005, 12:55:42 pm »

I'm ok... I didn't get hurt... but I am extremely worried about my bike.

Its a clean break and I really hope it can be welded back together, is can right guys? Yes? Can it?

Oh man... I feel ill. Trust me, I am not happy right now.

Frankd3000 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 03, 2005, 01:03:02 pm »

In my best Monty Python impersonation....

Bring him a bucket!

Honestly, Jinder, I am worried for your frame. Can it be welded? Yeah, sure. I'd be more concerned about having the two pieces of tubing line up properly again. At the very least i'd think you'll be looking at needing to chase a larger sized reamer through the two pieces to make sure they line up properly.

Again - this isn't my forte, so i'm just going off speculation with what would be done in the machine shop world, which may or may not be handled the same way in the biking world.

Ummm, if I lived closer i'd bring you some tissue?

jinder · « **Reply #4 on:** July 03, 2005, 01:50:12 pm »

Maybe a Replacement bike? http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCBkModel.jsp?sid=05StumpjumperFSR

doolin64 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 03, 2005, 05:50:44 pm »

As long as you use an experienced aluminum welder who knows what he/she is doing you'll be fine. Its the seat post. I'd be more worried is if it was break down at the crack or up front at the stem.

Colin · « **Reply #6 on:** July 04, 2005, 03:26:04 am »

".....specialist....."
".....very confident it could be repaired....."
".........try to make it look very neat..........."
".........its in the best hands around....."

You fell for that old story?
ha, ha, ha, I can hear him hitting it with the sledgehammer from here!

No, you're quite right, I'm sure it'll all be fine........now just go and lie down in a dark corner and imagine the oxy-acetylene cutting torch he's using on it right now!

p.s. now I've completely upset you, what's the guy gonna charge?

p.p.s just seen your latest photo's on the gallery and Man you are such a poser! in the nicest possible way, obviously! <GRIN>

Col.

jinder · « **Reply #7 on:** July 04, 2005, 04:41:09 am »

Hi Colin,

I think its about $50 but we'll see. I was pretty upset last night, sort of still am now too. If things don't workout I might start over with a new bike, I haven't eally seen anything out there I like besides some Stumpjumper models.

Its my own fault though.

P.S. I'm a Photographer in my sparetime, posing for the camera cames natural for me.

Simon · « **Reply #8 on:** July 04, 2005, 05:43:02 am »

VERY HARD LESSON LEARNED

all's not lost though,
your repair should be fine though if its not heat treated after the repair you may have to wait a month for the weld to harden off,
personally I wouldn't paint the repair just polish the area to match the frame and re- lacquer,
Simon.

jinder · « **Reply #9 on:** July 04, 2005, 06:11:19 am »

Thanks Simon! I'll ask them about the heat-treatment bit.

It was a hard lessoned learned...I still feel just awful about it.

proflex252 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 04, 2005, 07:06:22 am »

Oh f...!!
That beautiful frame!!!

I'm really feeling with you.

I'm so sorry about that!

I hope you can let it weld so that the patient will soon be on the road again!

shovelon · « **Reply #11 on:** July 05, 2005, 02:02:33 pm »

Hey Jinder and all.

The repair looks good! Judgeing from appearance the weld looks sound. As Simon mentioned, the weld does need the dissipate some residual stresses built up in the heat affected zone. The Easton tubing is 7005 alloy and will self heat treat, but the alloy grain patterns needs some temperature cycling to settle

Polish that weld up! It looks cool!

Terry

jinder · « **Reply #12 on:** July 05, 2005, 04:01:08 pm »

Cool, I'll watch for that. The bike is "out of service" for about 2 weeks (waiting for my new air shocks). Hopefully it will cure in time for mid July.

I'll polish the complete frame this winter, Thanks Terry!

Matno · « **Reply #13 on:** July 06, 2005, 08:43:15 am »

Man, this is one confusing post! I didn't check the board for a few days, and without seeing the original post (which I assume you edited Jinder), I had no idea what you were talking about. Kind of figured it out, but I missed the pics of the damaged frame that I assume were there before the repaired pics were...

jinder · « **Reply #14 on:** July 06, 2005, 11:49:16 am »

Sorry man....

I added the "before" pics

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