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The £120 complete skyway T/A story

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davym2112:
Bars and post out of the oxalic acid and looking much better already.
Before

After, should polish up well with a bit more elbow grease.


Surface rust came off the forks but a lot of the chrome has already gone .

Mattdub:

Very nice score & great project  :daumenhoch:

factory pilot:
Fantastic find mate :4_17_5:.....it gives us all hope and a renewed vigour to keep our eyes and ears open at all times.....cos you never know ;)

top work dude :smitten:
to quote a chav who drove passed me onto the way to a car boot a few years back.....'you bargain hunting cnut' :LolLolLolLol:

davym2112:

--- Quote from: Factory Pilot on October 31, 2012, 02:34 PM ---Fantastic find mate :4_17_5:.....it gives us all hope and a renewed vigour to keep our eyes and ears open at all times.....cos you never know ;)

top work dude :smitten:
to quote a chav who drove passed me onto the way to a car boot a few years back.....'you bargain hunting cnut' :LolLolLolLol:

--- End quote ---

lol, brilliant one. there are still a lot of old jems to be found around the streets here. An old lady who owns a market stall in Chinatown rides an ET with a metal shopping basket welded on to the bars !

Also an old man who rides his sons old Kuwahara Exhibitionist to and from the train station. He is asked to sell on a weekly basis but isnt interested no matter how much he is offered. I saw a late 80`s GT and a Kuwahara Bravo chained outside one of the tube stations last week. Left a note on the Kuwi but no response.

I was convinced the skyway tuffs had been painted, I asked the owner and he said they had just went that colour over the years. Still wasnt convinced so I tried some high strength paint stripper on them ( not the watery Sh1t we have in the UK, no silly chemical laws out here lol). This stuff goes through 2 pack in seconds and will shift powdercoat. Made no impact at all on the wheels so they actually have faded to that crappy brown colour. If they had been painted the brake blocks would have worn the paint off the sides

Tried scraping the surface with a stanley blade , comes off the raised spoke edges but would take weeks to do the whole wheel. See how much I had to scrape off just to get to the colour below in the photo.

I think best option short term will be to give them a quick sand and dye black , if I was back home I would get my mate to give them a go with the soda blaster.

CustardLips:
Cool find. Cool project. Keep us posted.  :daumenhoch:

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