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ripper clean up bare alloy any tips ?
Rodgy1970:
--- Quote from: SteveG on June 03, 2012, 10:57 PM ---I see, once you start messing with it you loose the original ball burnished finish, something I did on mine the first time it got scuffed unfortunately.
This is it as it is now, bit too shiny compaire with how it was new. I have re-fitted the DX pedals since the picture was taken and the whitewalls have calmed down a bit !
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Looks spot on to me and it will dull over time.
A guy in the states had one ball burnished recently and they start off a lot brighter than you think then dull down.
Moza:
I shall just have to polish it then let it dull down, does anyone know anything about the decal colours ???? Ive looked into the frame numbers and emailed Scot Breithaupt
his reply was "It did after i bought out all my contractors & created Scot Industries. . . b4 was mismashed. Sorry C ya" so at first the numbers dont mean a thing or they might do depending on who did the frame.
kungfunky:
What do you need to know ? about the serial number or decals ?
Moza:
--- Quote from: kungfunky on June 05, 2012, 02:34 PM ---What do you need to know ? about the serial number or decals ?
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I tried to date my frame the number is PK70069 ive asked Scot and he replied with what I posted. The decals on mine are black with pale blue kind of shadowing is that original. Ive only ever really noticed full pale blue decals
kungfunky:
--- Quote from: Moza on June 05, 2012, 02:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: kungfunky on June 05, 2012, 02:34 PM ---What do you need to know ? about the serial number or decals ?
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I tried to date my frame the number is PK70069 ive asked Scot and he replied with what I posted. The decals on mine are black with pale blue kind of shadowing is that original. Ive only ever really noticed full pale blue decals
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Well the good old "How to date a Ripper" debate... There are 2 lines of thought here, firstly I've talked to the OM in person and he confirmed the date stamps were infact random, but lets not forget he's been shall we say "busy" :D. Anyway the 2nd thought is this, all 79's were pre serial apart from the ones made in December which were stamped with PK2... now a few people have talked to guys who worked for OM on these bikes and the thinking for the date stamping is this.
There a few other that were specials "team" frames that had unique stamping also.
78 (JUs, BD-III's). No SN's.
79 (RTT,PK, DB-IVs'). No SN till later in the year, started with 2xxxx.
80 3x
81 4x
82 5x
83 6x
84 7x
so based on this yours would be an 84 and also has the correct decals for this. :daumenhoch:
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