Lemond TVT frame: Bikefanclub.com

Any help would be appreciated.

I've got an Lemond TVT-built carbon from from the "Z" days. It's come apart three times now. The first time I sent it to Calfee for repair. It was a chainstay tube coming loose out of the dropout. Second time I was able to do the repair myself by doing some research on bonding carbon fiber to aluminum. It was the other end of the chainstay coming loose from the bottom bracket.

Now, both chainstay tubes have come loose from the BB shell and I'm not going to fix it until I have a solution for my problem. I want to find a way to re-bond all of the joints. Anyone have any knowledge or direction to point me for information on how to un-bond the joints and then re-join them. There are some great compounds out there for doing the repairs but, I feel my luck has run out for not having a catastrophic result from one of these incidents. Besides, my wife will probably kill me if I don't do something more permenant. She wants me to get a new frame (she cycles and has a titanium frame so, it's not that incredulous of a suggestion) but, this Lemond frame fits my form and cycling style so well, I hesitate to mess with perfection.

Thanks in advance,

Khan

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