Rob_STT🌴USVI
'Lil Knee Scuffer
Hi again everybody. I posted something on the Birds of a Feather introduction. I believe I used the wrong approach of bringing this topic up.
To that end I’ll open up a new topic. Specifically it has to do with the temperature for making Schwinn steel malleable, under these circumstances.
I was also concerned about whether I should gypsy steel in water or not and whether I can do structural damage to the bike by just trying to heat it up with a propane torch. Here is the post that I did in birds of a feather.
I am wishing for comments about the process before I go ahead and do it ………
My Post : Hi everybody.
I recently bought my dream Schwinn, a 1956 Corvette from eBay.
Unfortunately, the genius who packed it, for some reason, took out the lower bearing case and some other genius (may be me) dropped the frame to put a kink in the front of the fork. It has a slight egg-shape to it
Having been a inhabitant of boat yards for many years, I thought the best way to make a perfect circle in the frame would be to use boat saving hardwood bungs.
Having been the son of an auto body shop person, I figured that the way best to bend steel in bumper bracket is by heating it red hot with a torch and hit with a ball peen hammer, wearing safety goggles and gloves.
I bought those things to do the job. My theory is the heat the steel in the fork just enough to drive the bung down to make a perfect circle.
Any comments?
To that end I’ll open up a new topic. Specifically it has to do with the temperature for making Schwinn steel malleable, under these circumstances.
I was also concerned about whether I should gypsy steel in water or not and whether I can do structural damage to the bike by just trying to heat it up with a propane torch. Here is the post that I did in birds of a feather.
I am wishing for comments about the process before I go ahead and do it ………
My Post : Hi everybody.
I recently bought my dream Schwinn, a 1956 Corvette from eBay.
Unfortunately, the genius who packed it, for some reason, took out the lower bearing case and some other genius (may be me) dropped the frame to put a kink in the front of the fork. It has a slight egg-shape to it
Having been a inhabitant of boat yards for many years, I thought the best way to make a perfect circle in the frame would be to use boat saving hardwood bungs.
Having been the son of an auto body shop person, I figured that the way best to bend steel in bumper bracket is by heating it red hot with a torch and hit with a ball peen hammer, wearing safety goggles and gloves.
I bought those things to do the job. My theory is the heat the steel in the fork just enough to drive the bung down to make a perfect circle.
Any comments?