The Betty

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I gathered up some new parts for the build. I found a black L.E.D. head light for the bike, it will have very little shiny chrome on it.

 

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I finished preparing the rims and smoothed out the welds. I drilled and chamfered the holes for the new larger 12 gauge spokes before sending them to powdercoat.

This will be smoothed further.

 

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Yay! Box of parts back from powdercoat! Grape ape!

Black S-2's

I had the spring for the fork powdercoated too.

 

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First new part on the Betty. New Schwinn sticker on the chaingaurd.

 

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Front wheel build.
Box of 12 gauge spokes and a newer front hub to go with the freshly black powdercoated rims.

All laced up.

And trued.

I had to mount a tire up to see how it was going to look.

Adding new parts is the fun part of a build after all the cleaning.

 

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Frame is back on the work stand and the first part is put on. The head badge.

 

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When I was at the Ann Arbor swap meet I found a nice rear rack and new reproduction tail light for the bike. I know it's not the period correct piece for the bike but it is a custom build and I think it looks cool.
As purchased with the mounting clamp and struts.

The new light.

Fits the rack perfectly.

I took it to work.

For a visit to the glass bead blasting cabinet.

Cleaned up nice.

Ready for powdercoat.

 

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Next was to prep the Springer fork for installation.
The old bearing race looked great but was to small for the newer fork, so I opened it up a bit with a dremel.

Then I made a race driver on my southbend metal lathe to drive it on.

I seated the bearing cups.

And installed the fork with clean and repacked bearings.

I think the purple spring looks cool.

Not much chrome.

 

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Black handle bars and the black headlight went on next.

 

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Next was the copper crank assembly with clean and repacked bearings and the kickstand.