Protect downtube changer braze-ons

[Cope]

Just picked up a frame which I've had sprayed. A very good job. However, somewhere in the communication process I didn't mention that I wanted the braze-ons (I think that's the term) where downtube levers would go to be sprayed too. This frame won't need or use them.

Obviously in their present state they are vulnerable to the elements. Can I get caps or something to go over them, or should I ask the sprayers to spray them for me?

 

[spandex]

Why where they not sprayed with the frame?

 

[vernon]

Why where they not sprayed with the frame?

Are they not a bearing surface and as such should not be painted as a matter of course?

I have seen them protected by a couple of drilled dice and very neat they looked too.

I wish that the person who converted a Flying Gate frame that I'd bought to fixed wheel had taken the trouble to fit protectors instead of hacksawing them off. It would have made the restoration to gears somuch easier.

 

[Cope]

How about these, with adjusters removed?

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/cid/AWQG...ube-Cable-Stops-with-Barrel-Adjusters-416.htm

I spoke to the frame sprayer, who said I should have been asked whether I wanted them sprayed or not, as many folk prefer not. However, I wasn't asked.

They have said they'll touch up the bosses, but I'm a bit loathe to trek back to the spraying place with the frame - adds several days before I can use the frame. Maybe that's just silly... :-/

 

[andrew_s]

How about these, with adjusters removed?

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/cid/AWQG...ube-Cable-Stops-with-Barrel-Adjusters-416.htm

When I converted my bike to fixed, I just left those on (with adjusters) rather than have naked lever bosses.

 

[Wobbly John]

I've got some plastic beads (in the contrasting colour to the frame) on mine held on with M5 screws. I had to drill the hole a bit larger on the side nearest the frame.

If anybody asks what the 'balls' are for - i tell them "just for decoration, nowadays"

 

[Joe24]

I just left the ones on my old fixed uncovered. They had been painted though.