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83 Mongoose californian resto thanks to JimmyP and Crazypaving

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Threaders:
Well....... Its been a year in the making and its finaly here :-\
This is what I scored of the bay for the grand total of 26 pounds all up. This was last summer.




Some nice welding work on the seat tube, I am sure you will agree  ;D ;D (not done by me)

Anyway, I soaked the frame in citric acid powder for a couple of days to see if the chrome could be saved, but it did s0d all, so decided to treat it with some kurite and give a coat of white hammerite :-[. I left it for a couple of weeks and then sanded down the whole frame to get the paint nice and smooth.

This is after sanding.

Fast forward a few months during which time I rattle canned over the hammerite and did some colour sanding plus laquer and also scored the rest of the parts from ebay and bmxmuseum.com. I got the decals from jimmyp and bars from crazypaving and the final bits arrived this morning ;D ;D

And here she is:






From a foot away, the paint looks pretty good and what it lacks in perfection, it makes up for in durabilty. (I dropped a spanner more than once on the frame when tightening stuff and not a mark!!)
This will  be a rider and am just waiting on some used white tyres to arrive, then I will change over the new ones and be ready to roll :D :D

brettypeeps:
Now that looks much better :daumenhoch:

Great job

pickle:
Nice......gotta love a goose!

Threaders:
I know about the chain. Its normally a habbit of mine to always take out one too many links and end up with a chain to short then have the headache of trying to hammer the chain pin back in :-[ , so this time I made it slack. I figure when I change the tyres, ill pull the rear wheel back a bit to tighten it. Im still not sure about the coaster brake. Never had one before and had to take this one apart and regrease to get it working as it had seazed up.
Its working fine now, but I have heard some horror stories about riding with them. Guess ill ride it slow to begin with.

john4130:
whatever you do don't crank full speed and then try to bunnyhop with a coaster. i watched my brother do it about half an hour after fitting one. he went straight over the bars and face in the dirt. funniest thing i've ever seen.  ;D

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