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Shimano DX Pedals restoration advice

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Bigplinky:
All the DX pedals were painted

I just stripped a blue pair that had been hand painted black to try and get a blue pair again and what happened hay presto a silver pair (I thought they were anodised but apparently not)

The original coating looks like a white base coat with a candy type colour appied over it, apart from black ones which are plain black. Just for info the shimano logo is always the same colour as the pedal I sanded the logo silver on my original black ones (as most people did).

Later

Andy

P.S. I think powdering them would make them pretty slippy as the coating will take the sharpness off the pins

mivvi:
Thanks Andy. Well that's something I didn't know, I would have bet my arse on the coloured ones being anodised, learn something new everyday. Im positive the ones I have are original and un-touched since new though and they have the Shimano logo in silver (As in no paint on it)?

fatboymal:
Marcus,

Biagio has told me before that the blue were painted (and the black obviously) but the gold were anodized. Don't know for sure but I have a feeling the red were painted also. None of them had the raised lettering in silver, but as Andy says lots of us sanded them back to silver BITD.

I still have one pair of NOS gold left, and am having to resist putting them on my new school ride, they would look rather sweet!

oberonspacefruit:
red were painted,as mine stripped in nitromores,right down to the alloy.

ORB:
Blue were coated in this funny plastic stuff, but Nitro tears it off.

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