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Center stand and spring bearings stuck
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: smoothoperator on February 28, 2022, 10:19:43 AM ---I think it possibly comes down to what tools you have available, everybody has a hacksaw but I'm guessing Ash you used a pillar drill? If I had six to get out I'd buy a pillar drill! Just one then get yourself a good hacksaw blade, I used a Bahco and had to grind away a millimetre all along the top of the blade before I could fit it through the tube. If you used an ordinary hand held drill then fair play to you Ash.
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I used a Makita mains hand drill .. kept going up in size in drills. Must admit the drills were good quality 'old-school' Dormer ones and I had them all sharpened by a guy at work. Interestingly, I drilled from either end until there was about a 35 mm plug left and tried to bash that our with a drift but it still wouldn't shift. Some of my bikes had been left out in gardens for years though, so pretty well corroded in compared with a bike that has been stored indoors/in a shed or barn for years or an import bike from sunnier climate.
Oddjob:
If it's super corroded just do 2 cuts opposite each other, the tube will collapse away from the walls making it easy to remove, or do 2 cuts about 1/4 inch apart and remove that section so it collapses inward then.
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: Oddjob on February 28, 2022, 03:47:18 PM ---If it's super corroded just do 2 cuts opposite each other, the tube will collapse away from the walls making it easy to remove, or do 2 cuts about 1/4 inch apart and remove that section so it collapses inward then.
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Sorry Ken but tried that too (cuts on opposite sides and two cuts close together and the remaining pieces were literally corroded to the walls of the tube of the stand ... every man to his own method though. I don't doubt that with one, which is not too badly corroded, then the saw cut method works fine though. Incredibly though, my really badly corroded ones were fine on the outsides, once bead blasted .. I guess that they get a coating of muck and oil to protect them for serious pitting.
Trigger:
Never cut one in all my time, Oxy acetlene works every time ;)
alexdecker:
Cut today, and it still won't come off. It is really badly corroded to the walls of the center stand. Gotta have to go to a pro, before I throw the whole thing down on the junk yard in anger!
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