[quote=“room203”]^ yeah this was a good read until this page.
i rescued this bike from a chainlink fence at a friends place. it was locked up with the cheapest possible combination lock/chain you can get so i easily unlocked it by feeling where the numbers needed to be. it has been sitting there for as long as ive been at school in that town. 3 years. i know for a fact it has not moved in over a year for sure. its a rent house and the tenants have surely rolled over a couple times since the first time i spotted it sitting there. i was going to fix it up myself and sell it at cost, but i had too much other stuff going on and i didnt want it to keep sitting in my yard so sold it to a dude for $15. its fixed now.[/quote]
80s world sport? i’ve got one of those lying around that i’m trying to get rid of.
I’ve liberated two bikes, both were in similar condition to the one that you were attempting to liberate. I knew that if I got caught it would suck so I made sure I could be quick. I used an oxyacetylene torch to cut the lock on each bike, it took about 12 seconds, and then I was gone. Oh, I didn’t steal the bikes at the same time, there was about a 2 year period between them. And yeah, it was stealing, I only wanted the bikes because they were good frames. One was a Ciocc (who the fuck abandons a Ciocc?!) and the other a Miyata 912.
I see abandoned Raleighs and other shit all the time and have no interest in them at all. Would I liberate another bike? No, not unless it were on my property or something.
[quote=“rotharpunc”]A bit risky cus you have to be really careful with the shit, but I worked in the office at a place that did zinc plating and they used a diluted hydrocloric acid bath before plating the parts, they got the HCL in a less diluted form( I think 37-40% regent?) there was some surplus they were going to dispose of and I ended up snagging a bottle, and this shit will eat through metal easily(I was doing etching on steel light switch and outlet plates) but I would imagine if you didn’t dilute it would eat through a krypto with little problem and would be less obtrusive then bolt cutters or a scissor jack.
Disclaimer: please for the love of tarck do not try this if you don’t know how to handle shit like that, if you are actually trying to steal a bike(in that case I hope you do get hurt) or in anyway that is going to harm a person, property or the enviroment, I only intend this to be for people engaged in the legitimate liberation of abandoned bikes.
My best find: Giant OCR3 50cm in mint condition, untouched in covered bike rack near UW Madison for 2 semesters and half the summer.
Most recent find: Old Centurion of low end quality under a pile of brush while helping LBS clean their adopt-a-trail.[/quote]
Negative. HCL is not going to eat through a thick ass piece of steel, unless you put it in a bath for a while, then maybe. this method would be horribly ineffective.
I was thinking more along the lines of fucking up the pins in the cylinder
I still don’t think that’d do you much good. Try it sometime and let me know how that works out. It will rust the fuck out of any steel other than ss though.
[quote=“shitmittens”]I’ve liberated two bikes, both were in similar condition to the one that you were attempting to liberate. I knew that if I got caught it would suck so I made sure I could be quick. I used an oxyacetylene torch to cut the lock on each bike, it took about 12 seconds, and then I was gone. Oh, I didn’t steal the bikes at the same time, there was about a 2 year period between them. And yeah, it was stealing, I only wanted the bikes because they were good frames. One was a Ciocc (who the fuck abandons a Ciocc?!) and the other a Miyata 912.
I see abandoned Raleighs and other shit all the time and have no interest in them at all. Would I liberate another bike? No, not unless it were on my property or something.[/quote]
i think our point is that it’s not stealing if its abandoned regardless of your motivation for said liberation. i don’t liberate every abandoned and locked bike i see and it doesn’t make me a thief when i liberate a nice one.
sort of the same argument as squatting. and you can get fucked doing that, too.
[quote=“rotharpunc”]A bit risky cus you have to be really careful with the shit, but I worked in the office at a place that did zinc plating and they used a diluted hydrocloric acid bath before plating the parts, they got the HCL in a less diluted form( I think 37-40% regent?) there was some surplus they were going to dispose of and I ended up snagging a bottle, and this shit will eat through metal easily(I was doing etching on steel light switch and outlet plates) but I would imagine if you didn’t dilute it would eat through a krypto with little problem and would be less obtrusive then bolt cutters or a scissor jack.
Disclaimer: please for the love of tarck do not try this if you don’t know how to handle shit like that, if you are actually trying to steal a bike(in that case I hope you do get hurt) or in anyway that is going to harm a person, property or the enviroment, I only intend this to be for people engaged in the legitimate liberation of abandoned bikes.
My best find: Giant OCR3 50cm in mint condition, untouched in covered bike rack near UW Madison for 2 semesters and half the summer.
Most recent find: Old Centurion of low end quality under a pile of brush while helping LBS clean their adopt-a-trail.[/quote]
maybe a small amount of thermite?
Thermite is awesome shit. I mean, they use the shit to put railroad tracks together. It’s gotta be Bad ass.