Bike Yakult? How to treat the inside of a steel frame
bluechair84
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Does any one have any advice on how I can protect my steel frame? I've noticed brown rusty water inside the seat tube, I suppose it's expected that water will penetrate here but how can I protect the inside from rusting too much?
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a light spray of WD40. works well as does allowing the frame to dry out after washing.
there is some proprietary frame preserver."Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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ok good tip, I guess I'll leave the seat tube out in future to try and let it air.0
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http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/ ... aver-10220
and maybe drain the water out before storage."Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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Waxoiling the frame might be a good idea, just ask at you local garage.0
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Stewwmb wrote:Waxoiling the frame might be a good idea, just ask at you local garage.
but Waxoil does not like heat and has already ruined one forum members disc brakes after he followed his Dad insistence on using Waxoil."Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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nicklouse wrote:Stewwmb wrote:Waxoiling the frame might be a good idea, just ask at you local garage.
but Waxoil does not like heat and has already ruined one forum members disc brakes after he followed his Dad insistence on using Waxoil.
NEVER put waxoil in a steel frame - EVER
It causes more problems than it solves.Now that we are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. ROMANS 15:10 -
Whytepeak wrote:nicklouse wrote:Stewwmb wrote:Waxoiling the frame might be a good idea, just ask at you local garage.
but Waxoil does not like heat and has already ruined one forum members disc brakes after he followed his Dad insistence on using Waxoil.
NEVER put waxoil in a steel frame - EVER
It causes more problems than it solves.
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I'm loving the Ceeway website, might add a few tubes to my shopping list and get designing my own frame! It'll be a dogs dinner mind...0
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Stewwmb wrote:Waxoiling the frame might be a good idea, just ask at you local garage.
I remember many years ago when I was a kid our council house got renovated.
After the builders had finished they left some cans of expanding cavity wall foam behind, the kind of stuff that looks like the wife's hair mouse but then it sets and goes hard.
I decided, in my 13yr old wisdom, to fill the frame tubes of my Redline RL20 BMX bike with this stuff:
"That'll never flex now" I thought, and I was right.
It also weighed the same as my mate's mum's Austin Maxi!
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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They rust a bit from the inside but unless you are planning on retaining this frame as a perfect antique specimen for the next 50 years I would not worry about it. Just keep it stored in a nice dry place and maybe give the seat tube a squirt of WD40 from time to time.You only need two tools: WD40 and Duck Tape.
If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.0 -
Try this stuff, ACF-50
it's better than WD-40 at preventing corrosion.
Also I just found this on another forum about corrosion testing carried out by the canadian army.
http://pubs.drdc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc53/p526285.pdf0 -
how a bout a few bottles of hammerrite krust? http://www.hammerite.com/uk/products/rust_removers.html £4 a bottle i think0
