Before cleaning  |
| overview of the two chainstay tubes. The bump at the bottom left of the picture is for the rear derailleur cable housing. |
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| The RH chainstay tube has a clear tape protector on it. This area is damaged and dirty... |
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| The chainstay protective tape is coming off at the bottom front... |
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| This is the LH side chainstay tube, looking at the front portion from between the tubes towards the outside of the bike. There's a patch of adhesive left from some sort of sticker that used to be on the tube. Also, there's a area on the inner side of the tube where the paint has been rubbed through from the tire rubbing on it at some point... |
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| The LH rear wheel dropout. Near the adjusting screw, there's an area where the metal has been damaged by something pretty sharp and hard, causing the metal to peel back and create a very large metal burr. Will use a chisel to take off the burr.. Also, the area is pretty dirty... |
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| RH side rear wheel dropout with the deraileur hanger. The adjuster screw is missing it's "head." This area is very dirty also. To the right side, you can see the clear chainstay protective tape's rear end... |
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| closeup showing how dirty the area is... |
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| This is the rear brake mounting location on the seat stays. A little bit dirty... |
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| The LH chainstay showing the adhesive residue. I used an adhesive remover liquid to take this off. It came off nicely with the chemical remover. |
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| LH rear wheel dropout as seen from the LH outer side. There's lots of paint damage/chips all over the chainstays and the seatstays... |
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| Peeling off the damaged clear chainstay protector... |
After Cleaning
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| The seat post clamp area, after cleaning |
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| This is the last area of the top tube that needed cleaning (had to move the frame on the repair stand to get to it). The sticker is not too bad. The letter "G" is a little bit damaged... |
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| There's a couple of small dents in the top tube but it's not too bad. Should not have any structural effects... |
