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Goose resto stage 2

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theRuler:
how are you polishing that to make it so shiny?

i have a nickel plated goose frame waiting in the wings. was gonna paint it, but if it will polish  . . .

Moza:
As the ruler said spill the beans mate, it might save me powdering the GT, afterall i did let you buy the goose lol


Lee

Waxintaxin:
Lol

Ok , so far i have stripped the paint , and started to polish , the first stage is to clean the crap off , i used a de greaser and then fairy liquid and hot water, this gets all the old crap off.
then give a good clean using autosol , not too much just to get it going , then i used Peek with a dremmel and the polishing attachments that come with it, I also use a bigger polishing mop on a drill , but find it skates and dings the frame. 

once its starting to shine you can see how much plate you have left and decide how harsh a polish you can use , i have a fair bit left so am using autosol to really polish it , with dremmell . this is slowly taking layers of nickel off giving a good shine.

I will then use wonder chrome to clean off the residule as this is a good cleaner and will not remove anymore nckel

I have spent about 5 hours on it so far , and expect twice that to finnish.

I have agreed with myself to leave this one in its original finnish and not get it re nickeled , so i need to keep going to make it a real good  frame and forks, it will have a few bits of bare metal , but that kind of adds to the character i think

Rich

kdw712:
i used a mop on the drill for mine came up a treat

but what can you do to stop it tarnishing 15mins after you stop polishing ???

theRuler:

--- Quote from: kdw712 on June 06, 2006, 12:16 PM ---but what can you do to stop it tarnishing 15mins after you stop polishing ???

--- End quote ---

paint :)

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