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I read a few other posts - you do great work on bikes and your blog.
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Great stuff Allan! I have a Winter cycles cx bike sitting here with a top tube dent that I would love to have fixed. I just don't have the skills to do it! I have been wondering how it is done for quite a while.
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Interesting. I learned something new.
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I would ask a painter. That's definitely not my specialty. Haha!
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Lolol!!!! I do it for the fun but figured I'd make enough to cover material and tooling for the tube block I made. Plus enough to take my son out for a milk shake.
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I wondered why you made your block instead of buying one from Paragon or Bicycle research.
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Nice! Definitely something I had considered on one of my bikes in the past.
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I recall when removing dents in cars that the metal also stretches a bit, which is one of the reasons that it is hard to get the original metal perfect, without the bronze filler. I tried this a few times with purchased frame blocks. At first, I tried to do it with out removing the paint--not. Then, like you, removed the paint and greased it. Where I failed was that I didn't understand the final step of filling with bronze. Bondo doesn't work, at least for long. Nice explanation. You could advertise this as a business. $50 for the work, another $50 for shipping to you and then to the painter and that is cheap to remove a dent which might be reducing the value of a frame by much more than that. The cost of repainting is likely the wild card here. There is a very nice frame on the classifieds right now, with a dent, but to replicate the entire paint of that frame would be prohibitively expensive. I've often wondered how hard it would be to repaint just the damaged tube, trying to either match paint or create a new paint scheme.
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