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goony73:
Cheers Guys!

Joe I am well pleased - Thanks for selling that frame me! Re: the paint - the whole thing was bead blasted - all the chrome taken off and then etch primed and sprayed buy the same guys who did the car panels - needless to say its like glass - amazing finish and TBH better than any powder coat I have seen.

OK mags... this is what I did!

1) cleaned with stiff scrubbing brush and fairy liquid to remove most of the dirt after removing all the ironwork
2) sprayed over with viakal (this is a bathroom treatment for removing limescale) and left to soak for about 15 mins then rinsed - this also does whiten the colour
3) into the big plastic box (90 litre capacity) with 10 litres of thin bleech, a dash of oven cleaner, a sprinkle of washing powder and then topped up with water to cover everything. leave for one week!
4) remove and wash again with soap and scrubbing brush - this is when you really see a change.
5) any last marks / paint dab with nitromorse paintstsripper and repeat step 4)

The paint stripper  really does work on cleaning the mags but it is not an even finish - the soaking does give you a better clean white finsh all over but is sometimes not quite aggressive enough to remove all the crud. If you mix up the steps above you should be able to find a way that works.

The Redline:
Thanks Gooney,

this mix sounds a little bit strange & dangerous, but no pain no gain
your my "Chemical Brother" Dude!  ;-)

regards
Alfredo

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