Z1b "lockdown ebay" frame up build.

wrote:

wrote:

You gotta love the smell of burning steel in the morning 

 Mate, there was burning ME at one point.

 

I feel your pain brother, my missus thought I had been in a "nettle patch" (grinder rash  )

Ha yea been a while since i got welder time and i had upgraded to a "proper" mig and first time in a while with gas and not flux core, took a small while to sort the settings but came out ok in the end.

You obviously got that from the "what were they thinking ?" discount department ! 

Nice work on the frame!  Those long days can be a pain, but usually are well worth it in the end.

Nice work. Good to see a frame in that state being put back into circulation - somebody else may have just used that as an excuse to butcher it even more 

wrote:

Nice work. Good to see a frame in that state being put back into circulation - somebody else may have just used that as an excuse to butcher it even more 

I’m gonna plead the 5th on that given what I am doing currently 

nice work! Some nice beads laid down there! Nothing like striking an ARC!
I saved a nice stock frame someone cut the back tri's off of. Luckily I had a couple other frames. I made a jig on a good frame, I used battery box mounts, then transferred over to the one for welding, could not even tell! The new owner of the sold, titled frame was very happy!

blackozvet post=869949You obviously got that from the "what were they thinking ?" discount department ! 

You nailed it, as i was working on it i was trying to figure out the rhyme and reason behind some of the cuts, to figure why keep some things and loose others, it the exhaust that has me though, its perfect, not a blemish on it bar the back ends cut off.

wrote:

nice work! Some nice beads laid down there! Nothing like striking an ARC!
I saved a nice stock frame someone cut the back tri's off of. Luckily I had a couple other frames. I made a jig on a good frame, I used battery box mounts, then transferred over to the one for welding, could not even tell! The new owner of the sold, titled frame was very happy!

Tidy work your self there sir, have a 76 LTd frame as a donor, i know its borrowing from Peter to pay Paul but i do have plans to fix what iv taken.
 

wrote:

wrote:

Nice work. Good to see a frame in that state being put back into circulation - somebody else may have just used that as an excuse to butcher it even more 

I’m gonna plead the 5th on that given what I am doing currently 

 Ah but the difference is that you will have a running bike at the end of it all ,not a frame that will live in the rafters of a garage.
 

wrote:

Nice work. Good to see a frame in that state being put back into circulation - somebody else may have just used that as an excuse to butcher it even more 

Thanks mate, its a untitled frame but Ireland is one of the few places that you can get papers for a vintage frame easy enough.
 

wrote:

wrote:

Nice work. Good to see a frame in that state being put back into circulation - somebody else may have just used that as an excuse to butcher it even more 

I’m gonna plead the 5th on that given what I am doing currently