Schwinn Debutante...I'm a Glutton for Punishment...

[GTs58]

...and a Tetanus shot...

Just don't stick your finger in her tank hole and you'll be fine.

 

[rollfaster]

I miss the one owner 61 I found five minutes from my house, 100 percent original bike. Yours should clean up nicely.

 

[HARPO]

I miss the one owner 61 I found five minutes from my house, 100 percent original bike. Yours should clean up nicely.

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It's not going to be anywhere near that one. WOW!

 

[juvela]

I miss the one owner 61 I found five minutes from my house, 100 percent original bike. Yours should clean up nicely.

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a deb very ready for her coming out party!




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[HARPO]

This Debutante is proving to be a real bitch...at least on her neck . The bolt is stuck and just won't budge. No problem loosening the ring, but that !@#$%^ bolt really has me angry. I'll try again tomorrow taking off the front wheel and shootingWD-40 into the head tube.

I have the headlights (bottom section) soaking in Evapo-Rust tonight along with a few bolts. But I don't think there's any way I can straighten out that front rack. That took some hit! To bad...

Fenders are more pitted than I had thought, and if I can't get the paint to come back decently, I'm going to start saving parts (wheels, handlebars, etc.) that I'll strip off. Too bad. I had higher hopes for this girl.

 

[phantom]

I know what you mean. I recently had a stem stuck in the fork that was a real M%^&$#. WD40, penetrating oil, rubber mallet for about 15 minutes at a time for three or four days. I was ready to give up. Wala, day five, another whack and it came out. I felt like Rocky running up the steps.

 

[HARPO]

I know what you mean. I recently had a stem stuck in the fork that was a real M%^&$#. WD40, penetrating oil, rubber mallet for about 15 minutes at a time for three or four days. I was ready to give up. Wala, day five, another whack and it came out. I felt like Rocky running up the steps.

It's the bolt in the stem that won't turn. I'll try again today, but I'm not to hopeful.

 

[coasterbrakejunkie1969]

I don't think there's any way I can straighten out that front rack. That took some hit! To bad...

I had a similar situation, it is nearly impossible to counteract the impact it took to damage mine. I could not brace it in any way in order to straighten it out. Maybe try running it over in the opposite direction that it was damaged hahahah

 

[juvela]

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rack -

it looks like the cold-setting force required to move it back toward alignment might be adequate to break loose one or more of the crossbar welds

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stem -

just stay in there with your favourite penetrating oil and give it some taps every few days

may take a fortnight but it will eventually free up without you doing any permanent harm to it

it could be a two-stage process; once you get the expander free the stem itself may also be seized...patience


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[HARPO]

Got it out!! Larger handled socket wrench, plus hitting it with a mallet.