Anyone know where I can get a bottle cage insert replaced & cheap respray done? Pref near to High Wycombe/Oxford/West London/Reading/Newbury area. Thanks
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frame repair & respray
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Posted 2 years ago #
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no such thing as cheep unfortunately
I'm doing a DIY job at the moment and its costing a fortune in stuff!
£6 nitromors
£7 x 3 for hammerite rust treatemnt, primer and topcoat
£2 white spirit
£4 brush
£5 gloves
£3 glass paper
+ lots of effortNext time its off to argos!
Posted 2 years ago # -
I think I've found a srayer on a local ind estate, but I need to get the bottle cage insert replaced first - any ideas anyone?
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http://www.argoscycles.com/www/renovation-pricelist.htm
In Brissle tho.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Hmm Argos want £110 for painting frame only! Looks like the bottle cage repair is going to be cheap though, still nothing more local to the chiltern hills?
Posted 2 years ago # -
try API,mine went via shop(The bike shop on pinner road,north harrow)
Posted 2 years ago # -
API bikes look more like it & only in Chelmsford, I'll give them a ring in the morning thanks.
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i think Vernon Barker (Sheffield) wanted about £6 to re do a bottle mount, i was then going to take it for a respray some where else much, much cheaper. clearly being in Sheff is no use to you but it should give you a good idea of cost.
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Hmm Argos want £110 for painting frame only! Looks like the bottle cage repair is going to be cheap though, still nothing more local to the chiltern hills?
But it's worth it.
I had my Inbred repaired and sprayed by them, in the 2-pack epoxy. It's virtuallly undestructable. I dropped a spaeer on the TT and it bounced off without leaving a mark. A year later, it still looks like new.
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Sadly my frame is only worth about 2p & I just wanted to tart it up to match the forks I'd just bought, £6 bottle cage mount repair plus local respray looks like the route for me. Thanks
Posted 2 years ago # -
dickyboy
any joy with the respray? if so where did you get it done?
Posted 1 year ago # -
powdercoat is much cheaper for getting a frame done, not as nice as a good enamel but if it's not for a posh bike it's this hsould not matter. Should be able to find somewhere for about £40-60 ish.
RE: frame repair, there are lots of small frame builders all over the place who would do little jobs like this. I would ask at your local proper bike shop (i.e. old man with encyclopaedic knowledge of campag group-sets, central member of local club e.t.c) he / she will no doubt know someone who does simple frame repairs locally.
Alternately I've read that some mapp gas and a boss from ceeway would work. Never tried though only over used mapp on copper fittings for plumbing.
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Steel or aluminium frame?
There is a thing called a Rivnut that can be used; which is effectively a blindrivet /poprivet type of insert that can be fitted into the hole in the frame and already has an M5x0.8mm thread.eg page 51
http://www.vartools.com/catalogue_var.pdf
DV-17305although not very commonly used it can be fitted to steel/ aluminium etc frames
Posted 1 year ago #
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