Old Department Store Stepthrough fixie conversion.

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You can see in that picture that we're working by hand and with a small sander... also the crankset is still attached. A bit later I tried to remove it and totalled the cotter pin on the drive side. Had to grind it off

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>>987692
Here's where I'm at now. Sanding was way too much effort and couldn't get around the lugs. I used a dremel and some sanding thingys to get those. The rest took paint stripper. Did a few coats, letting sit for 30mins each to get to here.

>>987693
Shouldve used the stripper first

>>987695
Haha yeah. I just didn't want to buy any if I didn't need it.

>>987690
nice blog faggot

>>987701
th-thanks. I thought people here would be interested. This board is slow and I wanted to share.

>>987706
desu I am interested to a point, but the bike you picked to restore just doesnt get my mojo going. I will still peak in from time to time as you update your progress.

>>987693
>headset cups still in the frame

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>>987728
I can't get them out! What are you even supposed to do? Anyway I masked them off for the paint job.
>>987713
I found this bike lying around last summer.

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>>987803

You need a special tool to remove them.

>>987805
Not really.
Just bash it out with a fatass screwdriver.
And if you destroy it you get to have a new headset like you were supposed to anyway.

>>987690
Post more pictures, Mr. Skellingtong's brother.

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Just finished primer.

>>987805
Also I don't own a linear impact device (hammer)

>>988088
You don't own a hammer? What the fuck

>>988085
you might need to go to a shop for a bottom bracket chase and face. You got paint onto the side of the bb shell, and it looks like some paint got into the threads. Should cost you about $20 to get that fixed.

>>988085
>painted over the headbadge
>paint in the BB threads
Can't tell from the pic, but please tell us you masked off the headset at least

>>987805
>>987866
A proper headset punch is one of the easiest tools to diy, you just take an unwanted pair of straight handlebars, cut a slot in one end, then spread the halves apart to make the prongs.

>>988118
>you just take an unwanted pair of straight handlebars, cut a slot in one end, then spread the halves apart to make the prongs.
Doubting this. Do you have any evidence of this being done before on flat handlebars? I can believe a thinner piece of pipe, but what made you come up with handlebars?

>>988134

Not that guy, I think it's possible but why bother? A headset removal tool is like 13 bucks. I spend more on a pack of fucking cigarettes.

>>988118
I masked both those things off. Probably some paint in the threads but oh well. When I do the actual paint I'll mask the bb off better.

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Painting now. Still needs a few more coats. I masked off the bb shell better this time. So only primer got inside.

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>>988411
And here's the fork.

Welp. I'm poor and the co-op didn't have anything to convert my wheel to fixed. I'm too scared to suicide hub it, so for now I'm just gonna thread on a bmx cog. When I get some money I'll put on a nice wheelset.

Not familiar with Co ops but you could find a cheapo cassette rear wheel and put a spacer and cog set. I did that instead of buying an entire ss set from an old set I had laying around. Works great

>>988411
I like the colour

>>989321
The wheels I have rn are like 26" x 1 1/4. Would that be weird with a most likely 700c rear? I could try this.
>>989328
Thanks! I was worried that it would look weird. It ended up fine. I did a yellow outline on the lugs but that kinda sucked. Oh well.

>>989412
>>989412
>>>989321 (You)
>I'm not sure that would work. Your best best is to find something on Craigslist or buy a new cheep fixie set off of ebay

>>989547
Yeah. Just gonna keep checking local listings for a cheap set.

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Here's the wheelset with some 16T bmx cog. Cleaned them and they look brand new!

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Attached the fork. Have a yellow retrospec crankset coming in the mail that I'll put on. Hopefully my measurements of the BB were correct.