stopped searching started tinkering £50 budget(lots of pics)

[oldtired]

probably the wrong time to post this what with the frantic efforts for MK at the mo , but i'd like to enter this for the skip fodder section at MK via proxy as i can't make MK this year , 


got this of a rad member just because first it was cheap,  (nice one D) second i liked and still do like the look of it , had a bash at searching for an id but with not much luck , i've set myself a £50 budget for this,   as one of the reasons for getting the f+f was to find a use for a bunch of parts i have lying around, you always end up having to buy something so i thought i do it justice and spend as little as possible  , 




so set to with the nitromorse (fekin stuff burns like fook  )





noticed a dink on the chain stay and the horible seat stay, seat post junction with crimped tubes, quality  , so bit of chemical metal and a bit of sanding,




all in all not a bad result, brazed frame cleaned up ok , time to dig out the old head set after a quick blast of paint to keep the old rust away,   " feck me it dont fit "   the head tube is to big , shim shiminey shim shim sharoo's then , short story made long i had abit a thin ally so made these, fits perfect now



then came the crown on the forks or rather lack of  ?



more substantial shim needed here , chopped up on old stainless pan ,shaped it on the old akisu's,  then final fit with an ally spacer meant i had to bash it in place 

[oldtired]

color change and bung on few other bits,  crank set next , but i think i'm going to break into to the budget again for this as the one on it is a non starter, its possibly and i,m still looking into this a 1938 williams?  date stamp research is never easy  , spent £6 so far on paint   

[Darren Wood]

Your doing that proud i liked the look of that and asked about it but you had just got it 



Looks to be in good shape after a nice bit of RESTO keep us updated 



WOODY

[sawzall]

nice bit of resto there i like the budget builds as

most of us started with cheaper bikes bitd

[Daletsunami]

Top work mate, it's looking great and love the work you've put into it 

[sid1972]

British racing green  - awesome job! 

[oldtired]

cheers fella's    crank set is probably going to a new one looking round at the mo for something that'll look right, i've got an mtb one that looks ok , looks like an early bmx alloy crank,  but can,t quite get the chain alighnment , also got this, origonally a diamond back about 84 ish but its a real tight fit in the forks, which  is odd because the mid Fusion one fits fine ? the Sugino i think will be  more fitting to the period , but i like the look of the fusion?      ,  has anyone got a seatclamp cable hanger/stop ? rather than opting for new one , tight budget an all 

[sid1972]

get rid of the fusion mate - that sugino one is lush..

what's up with the original crank looks ok to me and era is right also, get it polished. 

[bobafett]

Cool resto diary - keep it coming 

[oldtired]

reply to sid1972, do like the sugino it was in a sorry state and was just about welded into a Wilson cruiser i've got ,i'll get round to finnishing off the polishing at some point ,   as to the crank set still  , the bottom bracket was gone not bad but the cups were dinted in the shape of the race but the crank itself is a bit worse for the ravages of time, as i said i'm trying at the mo to date it mainly for curisosity , it posibly did have a cottered three piece on origonally but even low end bmx's had cranks that looked more in keeping with the bmx look , even the lowly halfords turbo's had a set of sugino's on i think?  ,   unless of course they weren't available which would date the f+f earlier than i think it actually is , its more likly i think that the original set was trashed or traded    and this set was nicked off granddads old bike when he wasn't looking , plus its a 47 gear so would have to go with an 18 rear , although who knows  ?  still nice logo on the chainring  , can't work out if its N or Z on the arms, N dates them to 1928, Z dates em to 1962 and 1963 with C and D suffix ?   

[oldtired]

  ,  ok put crank set on hold for now but , looking at wheels now,  ,  again the best bits from the junk collection  one set single skin allys in black spraybomed at some point so need a fair bit of cleaning , 20X175, the other set is a set of skinnies double skinned aero shape ish 20x1.5 i think not the real skinny mini or sew up size?   is it 1 3/8th's ? don't need as much cleaning        ,both in keeping with the low end cheap build, it's difficult to decide without a set of tires, amber wall comp three types probably  ,

[fischflo]

it would be good to see an exemplary bike with a set of such skinny wheels, cause aero shape is interesting; they seem a bit damn thin ...

LOL lofi bike 

[oldtired]

yeah skinny but there pretty strong im 5'10 and shall we say of average build for my age    ( fat fooker  )  , ive road em pretty hard what with my Biggles dive bomb landings and there still true and round , i think they were supplied as stock on a Heavy Tools Stinger which is in the loft at the mo, that was the full cromo one in the HT series so i suppose they're bit tougher than a normal skinny again mid schooly but fit with the stem,  strange thing is they actually look better on the f+f than the blk set because the tubes on the frame are real narrow,  just over an inch or so,  the blk set actually looks to wide for the frame , almost like an mtb looks  with a fat tractor tires,       









you can't realy tell in the pics but its odd how much the skinny set look like there supposed to be there?  i think i'll go for them , of course there is as always an emergency back up plan  not sure about these though  ?       

[fischflo]

....feck the backup

ok, a really cheap skinny bike then  

http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/schwinn/12718

[not johndub71]

Just looking at those forks and I had some like that on my camo/anodised gold 1st bmx.

[griff]

Jimbo mate what happened to the rest of this thread
Was just enjoying reading through it again after it popped up, only it doesn't go past the first page now?