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Polished Alu frame weatherproofing

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sawzall:
do you mean this one,i polished it in feb and not touched it since,still as shiney 8)

duncan:
That's the one!
Gorgeous welds on that Ripper frame.

The Cannondale frame I'm working on blends the weld into the tubes, the frame looks almost as if it was cast as a whole unit.
So no nice beading to polish up, but I hope it'll still look good.

My Dad reminded me that the Cannondale lifetime guarantee for the frame probably just went out the window. Never thought of that before I started.
I've almost finished the wet & dry now, may get it polished tonight.

duncan:
Finished the polishing. Still needs waxed, but I wanted to see how it looks built up first. Hope I can wax over the rub-on decals without lifting them.
In this state, the frame gets marked extremely easily, and as someone else remarked it's very difficult to polish out any grease smudges.

I decided to put on some black decals instead of the silver, I could change them at a later date.
The forks are Cr-Mo, stripped, de-rusted, polished then lacquered. The Simonez acrylic lacquer from a can looks fine, not sure how durable it will be.
I coated another Cr-Mo stem (not shown here) in Plasticote clear lacquer, and it has crazed, no idea why, sudden temperature change?

Put on some GT bars and a Redline Forklifter, it remains to be seen whether the bars will be too high when the wheels are on. Might have problems fitting the brake levers and gear shifters too.
Just for fun, but if it works I might keep it like this for a while :)

sawzall:
nice job mate 8)

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