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Old Puch Mistral frame - CRACKED!

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  • 07-02-2011 8:05pm
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    sarkozy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭


    A friend of mine gave me an old Puch Mistral Somethingorother at the weekend. The frame is a much better fit for me, which is great, but it's in bad nick. Unfortunately, stripping it revealed a few problems. The frame tubing says it's 'Puch Original 2500 High-Tensile Steel Tubes', same for the fork blades.

    The brace for the brake between left and right seat stays is cracked on the crank-side. That's pushed the right seat stay out about a centimeter. Then I noticed the right drop-out is cracked where it meets the right chain-stay and is out of alignment slightly. Once I bring the rear rear end into where it should be (i.e. the same width as the lock-nut distance), things are mostly in alignment.

    My question is: can these cracks be welded? If so, where would I go to get this done?
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    GTDolanator
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    they can be but i wouldnt let a diy or inexperienced welder do it.Could be very thin tubing and blowing a hole in it would be very easy.It may also need to be jigged for the welding depending how out of alingment the frame is.Throw up a photo


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    sarkozy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭sarkozy


    I definitely wouldn't do it myself.

    It's a nearly identical problem to this lad: http://www.lfgss.com/thread52111.html.


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    purethick
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭purethick


    Mercian in the UK are one of the best in the business - they renovated an old Viking Vision 531 frame for me a few years ago. Absolute quality job. Have a look at their pricing here.


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    sarkozy
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    Hmm, my frame isn't so high-end that I want to pay that much money if it can be avoided. Any other ideas?


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    purethick
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭purethick


    sarkozy wrote: »
    Hmm, my frame isn't so high-end that I want to pay that much money if it can be avoided. Any other ideas?

    I doubt you can get the frame repaired properly for little money....give Rothar a call to see if they have any ideas or any second hand frames you could use instead


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