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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: ED209 on February 12, 2010, 06:59 PM
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So tell us what things you have done that have gone wrong or been total cock ups ...
if all the pitfalls get listed here then it might help others not suffer the same cock ups.
"if you never make any mistakes then you never make anything at all"
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buying an 08 super tuff burner :idiot2:
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Not really had one myself Ed but i do remember a lad of here sending a frame and forks to SBD to get it powdered which Dan did a great job on only for the lad to find the forks that should have gone with the frame under his desk after the frame had come back . :D ;D
Can't remember who it was ??? .............................................. ............................... ED ::) :LolLolLolLol:
Turned out great in the end though ED :daumenhoch:
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:LolLolLolLol:
Thats evil that Joff ;D
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Just been looking through old pics
Twin pinch flights on my gen1... what was i thinking... :idiot2:
And ive had a cheap powder job done on an s&m dirtbike... it looks shite!
I've got everything for it, it just needs the frame stripping and doing again and i just cant be arsed at the mo... :-\
After 2 years ive yet to build an old bike im happy with
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Fancy a good chrome one :D
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tried polishing a stem without sanding it down first, it was covered in little dimples after polishing, had to start it all again. used the z-rim stencils instead of decals, when i painted them the paint got under the stencils and just looked like a blob. when fitting a 3 piece crank the top hat washer wasnt flush with the back of the spider it stuck out about 1mm causing the spider and chainwheel to waggle about, after about 3 hours of doing a basil fawlty i sussed it, sanded it down until it was flush, sorted, i could go on but it might sound like i dont know what im doing :D
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tried pulling some decals off a streetbeat and thought i was doing really well until i noticed 3 lumps of powder missing from the frame :LolLolLolLol: wasnt laughing at the time. i use a hair dryer now :D
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Nah I can't remember who it was either - would never do that myself :2funny:
Not really had one myself Ed but i do remember a lad of here sending a frame and forks to SBD to get it powdered which Dan did a great job on only for the lad to find the forks that should have gone with the frame under his desk after the frame had come back . :D ;D
Can't remember who it was ??? .............................................. ............................... ED ::) :LolLolLolLol:
Turned out great in the end though ED :daumenhoch:
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just nitromorsing my t.a frame,hope its the cold thats burning my hand and not the nitromors :'(
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Tefore, cranks on his Vincent. :LolLolLolLol:
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bleaching the cat :D in a tub with my z-rims >:D
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trying to get a ding out of an XC-11 cage,managed to snap it in half.
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trying to get a ding out of an XC-11 cage,managed to snap it in half.
how did that happen dave? was you bending it? have got a cage to do see so glad i read this first :daumenhoch:
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I think THE biggest mistake is simply rushing a build, I've been as guilty as anyone on this and it never looks right
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yes i was bending it,but VERY,VERY lightly. would think twice if i were you.
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yes i was bending it,but VERY,VERY lightly. would think twice if i were you.
i will ;D have already bent it a bit and was gonna give it a tap with a hammer :LolLolLolLol: might leave it :D
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Bleaching a set of white alloy tuffs & didn't know you had to protect the alloy hubs :'(
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b366/claire169/Pool006.jpg)
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fresh yellow coat and decals on 84 pro performer , then squashed the bottom bracket races with a vice(over tighting), chipping the colour off left ,right and centre :idiot2:
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couldn't get a pedal of a crank ,,,so i got the petrol sthil saw on it to cut the crank arm in half
a year later i found out they where aerospeeds :2funny:
not really but that would be funny :LolLolLolLol:
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that is bad the gay pensioner
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Just remembered that I drilled my cock once whilst putting some rails on a skateboard.
Accidentally like.
Obviously ::)
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Try to straight a bented DC Tech 7 lever....but broken :tickedoff:
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oh yeah I broke a tech 77 lever trying to put a bend in it. The other stuff I've done was censored for some reason? :LolLolLolLol:
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new school tuffs >:D. killed some KKT pedals with costic soda :daumenhoch:
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Not a recent thing but when I was a kid I took some anno off a tuff neck with caustic!! And A mate called looky asked how I did it!!Two days later He brought a stem shaft to kenton bmx track that was once part of his Tuff Neck.
He had only left it overnight!!
dood stuff that Caustic soda!1 And Gary I thought you would know better ha!!!
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sounds like he did a better job on the stem should have give him my pedals :daumenhoch:
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soaked some mushroom 2 tone grips in boiling hot water to get off the bars only when i pulled the coloured part completely ripped in 2 :knuppel2: chucked it on the floor,picked it up and chucked it back on the floor with some very choice words being mentioned :yahoo_silent: