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I have a bike. It's an All  City. It's relatively new. It's not a special bike though it wasn't that cheap. It wasn't that expensive either. Today the derailleur hanger broke. 

It's an aluminum bit of crap. Proprietary. I could buy one. Well, the bike company has gone defunct, but it was owned by a conglomerate of a bike company. They may make the part for a couple of years. I want to ride the bike for more than a couple of years and, apparently, the hangers last about a year. 

That screw in the previous photo? Broken as well. It's reverse thread. There's a YouTube video on how to remove it. Mine was broken. The one on the other side is bent. I had to cut it out. 

This is a circa 2001 Independent Fabrication Crown Jewel. Omaha orange. I rode it a bunch. Sold it. Bought it back for cheap only to find out there were rust holes through the tubes under the paint. Garbage. Thankfully I didn't pay much for it to get it back. I'm going to use that dropout to fix the All City. 

Cut. Machined. Dry fit. I don't have a picture of it here, but the hanger is cut out so that it brazes on in the x and y axis. Lots of overlap for stability. 

Brazed. Clean. Eyeballing it, it looks like it might not even need any alignment. This is good because as I matched the geometry of the old derailleur hanger, there wasn't much room for a lengthy hanger that could be bent straight easily. 

Paint it pink. Instead of hiding the flaws I choose to enhance them. This bike is better now than it was yesterday.