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White Tuffs - should i or shouldnt i (opinions please !)

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squigly:

--- Quote from: J.T Racing on February 10, 2011, 12:34 AM ---somebody was adding hydrogen peroxide and getting good quick results, but i'm not validating any home chemistry experiments :-X

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blimey, never thought of giving them a perm !   :crazy2:

so here's Steves ingredient list:


--- Quote ---Mine only needed a few hours each to soak ... there's no time scale and it depends how bad your wheels are really  Undecided  Just make sure you keep a keen eye on things to make sure the hubs don't get ruined in the process  Wink

I used boiling water (enough to cover one wheel), a 2 litre bottle of cheap bleach with a cup full each of caustic granules and washing powder. The oven cleaner was the spray foam type which I applied and left to soak before they went in
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seems a bit hectic, but looks like it works, my hubs are mint with no corrosion so they'll just buff up and there are no gouges out of the rims either so should turn out top notch <fingers crossed>

P.S. Still need a frame to bolt them too, kinda open to offers too as i'll only know what i want when i see it, until that opportunity arrives i'll pop them on a flatland bike i have here.

wildon:

--- Quote from: dordymush on January 15, 2011, 01:47 AM ---
--- Quote ---I left my white tuffs in bleach for about 2 months and it done feck all 
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mine was the same.
sold em to steve p as they looked totally wrong next to the new white powder on my T/A.
dont ask me what the hell he put em in but they came out better than new.
i think he said a mix of bleach and costic sodea and something else lol.
pm him he might still know the mix.

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Nice one .. i had a look through his thread .. i'll give that a go  :daumenhoch:

spesh:
i used hot water neat bleach and salt and it worked fine
took two weeks with a top up of hot water and bleach and stirred twice a day

squigly:
Any tips on removing a sproket thats been in situ for the best part of 20yrs, penetrating oil has never really worked for me all the years i've worked on cars, sure it keeps the item moving over rough threads AFTER you've cracked it free, does heat work on a tuff hub ?  or do i just need a bigger hammer ?

brettypeeps:
Due to the fact you have alloy hubs and a steel freewheel you are likely to have some dis-similar metal corrosion there so I would be soaking it  in penetrating oil for a day then take it to your Local Bike Shop (LBS) where they have a tool that should remove it.  :daumenhoch:  Generally they won't hammer off.

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