Reply To: Any Cudaheads running a 1×9 setup?

Mixalive’s prep methods were spot on but I differ in what to do about the rust. Having done a dozen old cars in the last 20 years, I swear by Jasco Prep and Prime. You simply have to brush this stuff on, dunk your parts, or in your case fill the tubing. This stuff converts rust from ferrous iron to iron phosphate, in other words it changes the chemistry of the rust back to steel (that’s a little oversimplified but you get the idea). Leave it over night, drain the frame, discard the polluted solution, let dry for a few hours and repeat if the rust is really bad.

Here’s the link:

http://www.wmbarr.com/product.aspx?catid=103&prodid=221

Before you get into any of this or spend money of chemicals, check for bubbled paint on the chainstays and around the bottom bracket… if you have some, do not assume that they are surface rust. Use a stiff wire or ice pick to open the bubbled paint, poke that wire around and see if you have a complete rust through (i.e. cancer). If so, recycle the metal or make a wall trophy out of it. Sorry brother, cancer in the stays is nothing to mess with, the frame is wasted!

Good luck and keep your fingers crossed!

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