Latest addition

Harng Goh said:

or I
could even go have a look at one of those cheap-as-chips arc welders
in Bunnings and work out how to do it myself.

1) whatever you buy, practise on similar size pieces of metal first
2) Only do short spot welds at 12, 3, 6, & 9 oclock.
3) Letting it cool down between welds will help
4) Make sure you wire brush very well all the places where you intend t
weld.
5) make sure the welder has a standard 10 amp plug.

Quoted message said:

If you buy a mig gassless, you will need a good set of wire cutters.

< I seriously doubt if a cheap arc welder will be any use, For something
as small as the metal in the hb, a 1.6mm rod is still too big, so it
must be clean and a quick weld, otherwise everything is going to start
melting away very quick. I recently found out that my 20 years old, not
so cheap arc welder can not handle 1.6mm rods, Despite the control label
on the front indicating it can, it quickly immitates a dull light globe
on any stick up.

Good luck.

You would be better to oxy it, but that isn't cheap.

Hmm, if you weld it alltogether, can you still adjust the bearings on
that size?

Terryc said:

Harng Goh said:

or I
could even go have a look at one of those cheap-as-chips arc welders
in Bunnings and work out how to do it myself.

1) whatever you buy, practise on similar size pieces of metal first
2) Only do short spot welds at 12, 3, 6, & 9 oclock.
3) Letting it cool down between welds will help
4) Make sure you wire brush very well all the places where you intend t
weld.
5) make sure the welder has a standard 10 amp plug.

Quoted message said:

If you buy a mig gassless, you will need a good set of wire cutters.

< I seriously doubt if a cheap arc welder will be any use, For something
as small as the metal in the hb, a 1.6mm rod is still too big, so it
must be clean and a quick weld, otherwise everything is going to start
melting away very quick. I recently found out that my 20 years old, not
so cheap arc welder can not handle 1.6mm rods, Despite the control label
on the front indicating it can, it quickly immitates a dull light globe
on any stick up.

Good luck.

You would be better to oxy it, but that isn't cheap.

Hmm, if you weld it alltogether, can you still adjust the bearings on
that size?

Thanks for the pointers. Practise, practise, practise first. Even
though it's no great loss if I stuff up on this hub, I would still
prefer not to ruin it. As you've suggested, the idea was to do 4 small
spot welds to fix the drive cone to the hub shell.

As I see it and from my reading, the inner bearing on the drive side
won't be needed. There will still be two more bearings - the outer
bearing on the drive side, and the bearing on the non-drive side. Both
can still be accessed by removing the cones.

Harng Goh said:

Here's my latest addition:
http://www.qweop.net/2007/03/08/postie-bike

Dude, that's so cool!
I would (almost) swap you my Raleigh track just to be able to ride an AusPost bike around London! 🙂

thehippy.net

Harng Goh said:

Here's my latest addition:
http://www.qweop.net/2007/03/08/postie-bike

I picked this up recently for the cost of a meal. Tyres and tubes had
perished so they were the first to be replaced with some cheapy spares
I had lying around.

You lucky lucky [censored], I've been trying to track down a postie bike to use for stupormarket transport. Damn. poobumwee. I want one.

Failing that, the commuter tractor will be pressed into service for shopping and I'll have to finally get around to building up the Felt frame as a daily driver/commuter. Had this plan for about two years + now. Oh well, all good things take time & I'm also after a budget-priced donor bike with either Deore XT/XTR/LX. All reasonable offers considered. Hell this is sounding like a ad. Call us now. 😉

cfsmtb said:

Harng Goh Wrote:
You lucky lucky [censored], I've been trying to track down a postie bike
to use for stupormarket transport. Damn. poobumwee. I want one.
<snipped>
cfsmtb

If I ever get sick of it, you can have first dibs on it.

These could all be the same bike (as I only saw in passing) but I've
seen other postie bikes on Nicholson Street (Abbotsford), Gertrude
Street, and one locked up on Swanston Street.

On Mar 14, 12:04 pm, cfsmtb <cfsmtb.2ne...@no-

mx.forums.cyclingforums.com said:

Harng Goh said:

Here's my latest addition:
http://www.qweop.net/2007/03/08/postie-bike

Quoted message said:

I picked this up recently for the cost of a meal. Tyres and tubes had
perished so they were the first to be replaced with some cheapy spares
I had lying around.

You lucky lucky [censored], I've been trying to track down a postie bike
to use for stupormarket transport. Damn. poobumwee. I want one.

Failing that, the commuter tractor will be pressed into service for
shopping and I'll have to finally get around to building up the Felt
frame as a daily driver/commuter. Had this plan for about two years +
now. Oh well, all good things take time & I'm also after a
budget-priced donor bike with either Deore XT/XTR/LX. All reasonable
offers considered. Hell this is sounding like a ad. Call us now. 😉

--
cfsmtb

There is one out the front of Open Road Cycles at the moment I
believe, will be more for being from a shop...

Harng Goh said:

If I ever get sick of it, you can have first dibs on it.

Oi! You're forgetting the guy who
1) pointed you to the ebay ad
2) got his hands dirty on the bike
3) tested the strength of your JB Weld with a few trackstands...

PiledHigher said:

There is one out the front of Open Road Cycles at the moment I believe, will be more for being from a shop...

I saw that red thing too, as I whizzed past down Blackburn Road... it even has the front basket still attached.... From the half a second that I looked at it, it said Malvern Star on the down tube and didn't have an Aus Post sticker....

cfsmtb said:

Harng Goh said:

Here's my latest addition:
http://www.qweop.net/2007/03/08/postie-bike

I picked this up recently for the cost of a meal. Tyres and tubes had
perished so they were the first to be replaced with some cheapy spares
I had lying around.

You lucky lucky [censored], I've been trying to track down a postie bike
to use for stupormarket transport. Damn. poobumwee. I want one.

The Bike shed at CERES has almost a dozen of them at the moments,
without the front baskets, but with the frame attachments and a couple
of shelving brackets you could know something up bigger and lighter in a
couple of minutes.

We're looking at aprox $100 each

Cheers

Joel

Joel Mayes said:

The Bike shed at CERES has almost a dozen of them at the moments,
without the front baskets, but with the frame attachments and a couple
of shelving brackets you could know something up bigger and lighter in a
couple of minutes.

We're looking at aprox $100 each

Decisions, decisions, just got a excellent offer for much required computer hardware for $100 ... now there's this postie bike frame for $100 ... but the computer hardware will enable me to earn more $, therefore will be able to buy more bike stuff... Ah hell, can you hold onto a frame for about a fortnight or do you require a deposit? Are they flying out like hotcakes or not?

BTW - heard about CERES scoring an amazing benefactor in Saturday Age? Wow! 😉

cfsmtb said:

Joel Mayes said:

The Bike shed at CERES has almost a dozen of them at the moments,
without the front baskets, but with the frame attachments and a couple
of shelving brackets you could know something up bigger and lighter in
a
couple of minutes.

We're looking at aprox $100 each

Decisions, decisions, just got a excellent offer for much required
computer hardware for $100 ... now there's this postie bike frame for
$100 ... but the computer hardware will enable me to earn more $,
therefore will be able to buy more bike stuff... Ah hell, can you hold
onto a frame for about a fortnight or do you require a deposit? Are
they flying out like hotcakes or not?

BTW - heard about CERES scoring an amazing benefactor in Saturday Age?
Wow! 😉

Well they've been hanging around for a month now, I doubt they'll all
sell over night :-) (and if they do I've got a second frame postie bike
in the shed which I could maybe be talked around to getting rid of
(I've been trying to talk my partner into riding it when we go shopping,
which hasn't worked, mainly I think 'cause I made the mistake of
rebuilding her touring bike recently and she's not into riding anything
else ATM))

Cheers

Joel

cfsmtb said:

Decisions, decisions, just got a excellent offer for much required computer hardware for $100 ... now there's this postie bike frame for $100 ...

What hardware are you after?

hippy

Snuffy said:

Harng Goh said:

If I ever get sick of it, you can have first dibs on it.

Oi! You're forgetting the guy who
1) pointed you to the ebay ad
2) got his hands dirty on the bike
3) tested the strength of your JB Weld with a few trackstands...

Didn't think you wanted it. OK, you can have first dibs on it then.

Does anyone have any ideas for a basket for the front? It has brackets
attached to the head tube for the basket. I was thinking I could just
bolt on any strong wire basket (like the ones that supermarkets used
to have before most changed to plastic) but I can't for the life of me
think of where to find one of those (except at the supermarket).

hippy said:

What hardware are you after?

The new display monitor, just got a excellent offer I can't refuse. Saves my eyes too. 😉