WA Bike Auction

[quote="SteveA"]For my fellow WA cycle collectors:


"Police Unclaimed and Forfeited Property Auction
[url="http://www.rossauction.com.au/auctions/index.php/view/27042005"][u]rossauction.com.au27042005Open ↗[/u][/url]

10:00am Wednesday, 27th April 2005

In Ross's showrooms, 241 Railway Pde, Maylands, WA"

There are usually 150 to 200 bikes for auction. Usually open for inspection before the auction. Mostly [censored] bikes that are so [censored] that people have not bothered to claim them, but there are occasionally gems.

I might try to get along to this one as I need an old bike to convert to SS.

SteveA
[/QUOTE]
tank you!
might head along for MY SS project....

I saw a medium framed avanti sprint in good condition there

Auction is tomorrow 10:00am. Inspection today 9am to 4pm and tomorrow 8am to 10am.

89 bikes on offer.

rossauction.com.au1Open ↗

I won't be there this time as I picked up 2 good 58cm steel frames in the last verge rubbish pickup (1 to build into a fixie/SS and 1 to ...?) and I would be stretching my 'licence to collect and rebuild old bikes at home' if I bought another. (Besides which there was nothing on the auction list that really appealed)

Steve(even if you're not in Perth, you could still waste some time reading the list)A

SteveA said:

Auction is tomorrow 10:00am. Inspection today 9am to 4pm and tomorrow 8am to 10am.

89 bikes on offer.

rossauction.com.au1Open ↗

There's even some digital scales in there 😕

F"want-to-buy-a-bike-little-boy?"Dutch

SteveA said:

I won't be there this time as I picked up 2 good 58cm steel frames in
the last verge rubbish pickup (1 to build into a fixie/SS and 1 to
..?) and I would be stretching my 'licence to collect and rebuild old
bikes at home' if I bought another.

Hacksaw - just keep a spare blade.
When verge strolling, keep a 6" shifter in pocket and dump the wheels,
etc if you don't want them, then apply hacksaw to least desireable
frame(s). Comes down to a compact lot.

Alas, my collection is 9 stripped frames, and 3 fish crates of pieces,
plus a dozen wheels from 12"- 28". Mostly for building trailers, etc.

flyingdutch said:

There's even some digital scales in there 😕

F"want-to-buy-a-bike-little-boy?"Dutch

And a Liquidarc MIG welder - could that be useful for anything bike related?

Steve(gotta get me some flip flop Fixed/SS hubs and build some wheels)A

SteveA said:

And a Liquidarc MIG welder - could that be useful for anything bike
related?

Nope. Great if you want to build your own steel hulled boat.
Mig is too big for bicycle building, except if you are an expert welder
and you would probably want something with more knobs and dials, plus
foot pedal.

quote='Terry Collins'SteveA said:

And a Liquidarc MIG welder - could that be useful for anything bike
related?

Nope. Great if you want to build your own steel hulled boat.
Mig is too big for bicycle building, except if you are an expert welder
and you would probably want something with more knobs and dials, plus
foot pedal.[/QUOTE]

So you're telling me its a big bugger? Wonder if it's unclaimed lost property or confiscated assets?

SteveA

SteveA said:

So you're telling me its a big bugger? Wonder if it's unclaimed lost
property or confiscated assets?

I don't know, try a google (not too helpful - the auction list was on
top and everything else was gone or useless). Or maybe
http://www.liquidarc.com.au (didn't work for me either {:-)

I thought Liquidarc was the CIG economic brand before all the yum cha
welders showed up. So it could be a bit old. Look at the paint work.
Most likely it is a light, home, occassional use welder.

The first problem with MIG is if it is gasless ([censored] welds), uses
(relatively) expensive little gas cyclinders (can you get them), or you
have to rent bottles at $20/month (BOC or Linde have the proverbials here).

You could probably use it to build a 30' boat or similar. The boat
reference was to the fact that when I first went to learn Oxy (class
full {:-(, I ended up doing stick and about half the class were "old"
guys making boats, etc. Including one guy that had made his boat, then
hired crane to lift it from back yard to trailer out front, where it
promptly fell apart. Huge sigh of relief. He came to learn how to
properly weld and not just tack {:-).

Using Mig is problematic for thin metals. You have to keep moving at the
same "fast" rate and there is a lot of heat flowing into relatively very
thin steel. Great for making HOLES if you pause, hic up or have an
unsteady hand.

If you have any physics knowledge left ask your self what you think a
pool of molten metal is going to do in a swirling 50 Amp electric
current {:-).

If you want to learn, go to TAFE and do Oxy-Actelyene I. Basically
brazing, which is so much easier, gentler and far less critical. You can
also weld (fusion) with oxy.

If you have the steady hand, then take TIG 1. Same process, filler rod
in one hand, but heat is from electric arc. More time critical but you
control the extra metal and you have far greater control over heat
inflow than Mig. TIG also does all your "exotic" metals.