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Geordie:
thanks lads, quality advice as usual, i'm going to take some pics of the bare frame this weekend and i'll post them up then i think it's polishing time. i've found out a little more about the ballburnishing over the last couple of days, it's done in wooden barrels which are full of small metal balls to which they add a small amount of water and cleaning solution the balls vibrate or turn around in the barrel which ballburnishes the item. we've been told that it's still possible to have items up to a foot in length done but nobody knows of any company in the uk that can handle anything the size of a frame. se must have had specific  equipment made to do the frames bitd. ;D

Waxintaxin:
The finnish on the originals was ball burnished , and this process is suppose to keep the alloy shinyish, if you polish it out , it will dull with time , as personally i like them dull not super shiny i would hold out for a ball burnishers , there has to be one somewhere.

Rich

Geordie:
there is m8 but none with big enough equipment to do a frame :D

Waxintaxin:
That sounds like a challenge  ;D

I will try and help

Rich

Geordie:
quality m8, are ya going to make a huge ballburnishing machine a-team stylee from a few old bits of junk you've got lying around?
 :LolLolLolLol: if you are count me in if i can be face man cause he never does any work and gets all the birds......... ;) ;)

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