Rear frame loop

Tornado said:

Sounds like a reasonable approach...but does the heat damage the frame paint and what precautions are needed to prevent damage to other frame attachments?

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Ideally remove the fuel tank, otherwise there will be a larger damage area.

The paint will have disappeared well before the tubes get to cherry red, but it's definitely the best way to do it. If you go ahead with this you may as well do the job properly and add the reinforcement plates too.

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Cheers,

cliffa.

Tornado
Red hot hoop equals paint burns off but I use Simoniz Gloss Black aerosol acrylic black and primers for all frame painting and touch ups so easy to make good.
Looking at the pics from 2008 just angle the flame away from the shocks and tyre but you could cover it with a fireproof blanket.
The shock mount area and seat lock weren,t affected although they would have been warm. The fuel tank wasn,t on, potential for heartbreak as cliffa suggests.

Torontonian said:

If none of the above works , try using mind bending energy. Spoons and forks have been bent by pure concentration . Focus intently without interruption. Use the FORCE as an assist.

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Be careful with that, young guy at work tried it, two weeks later his penis dropped off.

KiwiNeill said:

Be careful with that, young guy at work tried it, two weeks later his penis dropped off.

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Did it soften first?

cliffa said:

Did it soften first?

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I would hope so, but heating up cherry red not an option...

I was picking up an order at Andover yesterday and noticed in their online parts list on most models under the Commando Frame Repair Items drawing, that most or all of the individual brackets, gussets and tubes that make up a complete frame are available.
This will be good news for anyone needing to repair or modify a frame, the Old Brits style reinforcing bracket not available though, just the O.E. parts.

I am in the middle of a rebuild. I was reading this thread the other day and thought that I have been lucky to not have bent my loop down having hauled lot of stuff back there when I was young and foolish ( the difference now is that I'm not young). It did get me to take a closer look at my loop.
Upon careful inspection, I determined that my loop was ever so slightly bent down on the left side. It was so slight that it took a great deal of sighting and using a straight edge to convince me that it was bent down.
So now what? I did not like the idea of heating it (and my acetalene torch is in another building) so I decided to cold bend it.
Believe it or not, the method I came up with actually worked. Never under estimate the power of leverage and a wedge. I put what I considered to be a tremendous amount of stress on it and left it over night. It is now straight.
I am not suggesting to anyone to do this. It could be risky putting this kind of load stress on your frame. It would be a disaster to twist something out of wack. I used 2 spots that I took to be the most rigid and it worked. See pics.

Good job there. Wish I had a cleared frame for this but alas I'm too lazy to strip it all down for this job. I will be attempting a debend with everything in situ.

Now that's a real wedgie !!

Nice bits of 4x2 ...or 2x4 depending which side of the pond your on