Old Puch Mistral frame - CRACKED!

sarkozy · 07-02-2011 7:05pm #1

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?

GTDolanator · 07-02-2011 7:09pm

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

sarkozy · 07-02-2011 7:17pm

I definitely wouldn't do it myself.

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

purethick · 07-02-2011 9:14pm

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.

sarkozy · 08-02-2011 12:04am

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

purethick · 08-02-2011 9:46am

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

Old Puch Mistral frame - CRACKED!

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