Gramp’s 1941 New World - Trying to get it running as a rat rod bike

[Bozman]

Miq- Let me look though my parts boxes and see if I have a spare right side Torrington pedal post in stock. Welcome to the club! I've restored several lightweight Schwinns and I did a Wartime BF Goodrich Schwinn a few years ago. Let me see if I have the pics of the restoration.

 

[Miq]

Miq- Let me look though my parts boxes and see if I have a spare right side Torrington pedal post in stock. Welcome to the club! I've restored several lightweight Schwinns and I did a Wartime BF Goodrich Schwinn a few years ago. Let me see if I have the pics of the restoration.

Thanks Bozman! I'd like to see your wartime BF Schwinn resto pics if you can find them.

 

[MarkKBike]

What a wonderful project you have going there, great photos too.

 

[Miq]

Thanks MarkBike!

I worked on the coaster brake steel and bronze discs today. Here’s what they looked like washed off after soaking:

The bronze discs had a red tint to them and the steel ones were corroded. Both had grooves and wear on their surfaces.

 

[Miq]

Used double stick tape to hold the same type discs to a flat board while I carefully hand sanded them using 400 grit sand paper and a hand block. Some parts required more love than others. They all got individual attention and the group got worked over as a whole at times too. When they all looked pretty good, I flipped them over and did the other side.

Can you tell which ones I flipped already?

I performed the same sanding on the bronze discs too.

 

[Miq]

After a quick wash off they look like this:

Some look better than others but I don’t know how much I need to stress over this. The majority of the surfaces looked pretty even and most of the wear marks are gone. The bronze looked like bronze again and the steel looked like steel again.

These are the worst surfaces:

The sides got some love too.

 

[Miq]

Steel Discs

These are the worst surfaces:

These look pretty good:

 

[Miq]

They are fun to fidget with in your hand. I coated all of them with Mobil1 synthetic motor oil and threw then into a plastic bag for now.

 

[Miq]

Took the old tires off today. Any idea the vintage of this stuff?

Goodyear Rib - interesting diamond pattern.

 

[Miq]

This stuff used to protect the inner tube from the spokes. Now it’s crusty and needed to be chipped out with a plastic tire lever. Found some hand stamps inside the rim that are still readable. Pretty cool IMHO. You can also see how straight the sides of this rim are and how the spokes don’t attach directly down the centerline but alternate side to side.

Loving how ratty the rims look.