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87' Mongoose decade build (put together for a look see)
EDBANGER:
I did indeed Mr67. I was able to go to him and collect so he couldn't really get away with it. I paid cash on delivery. He seemed like a geniune nice bloke too, can't believe he's been doing that. You want his address? :LolLolLolLol:
Some more extremely vital pieces aquired over the weekend including the head tube badge. Nice condition 880 and A750 too. I was watching an auction on a complete bike when the guy took it off early. I contacted him just to see what price he'd been offered and he told me he wasn't prepared to let it go for silly cheap and decided to break it. I managed to dib dobs these beauties. I only need seat post and bottom bracket set now and I'm on the road.
So, plan of attack is going to be as follows I think. Citric Acid bath on Frame, forks and bars to remove the little bit rust there is. Get the levers, seat clamp, spider, calipers and possibly spin tech powder coated (I need to do a little research into getting and reapplying the spin tech decals though). Stick it together and feel pleased with myself.
Mr67:
Thanks but no i got my money back and was able to find another decade, Im glad you didn't get ripped off. Regarding the spin tech decal i think del's decals can do them, his decade decals he supplied me are bang on and arrived with in 3 days of ordering. The olny missing part im after is also a mongoose frame badge. I would love to see it when its finished.
EDBANGER:
Mr67 - to be honest I didn't think I'd ever find the head tube badge but I just randomly e-mailed some guy from ebay after he took his decade off to ask him how much he'd sold it for. He said he hadn't sold it and had decided to break it instead. I dib dobs the head badge and brakes and was well chuffed.
I've been pretty bust of late so haven't really had time to do much up until this evening. I've just sat for about 2 hours with some tin foil rubbing off the little spots of rust of the frame, forks and handle bars. As a result I now have stained grey fingers tips and the skin on my thumb is peeling like a banana. On the plus side i'm happy with the result.
Had to start doing something with it as I've just bought a GT Performer to restore aswell. It hasn't arrived yet and the Mrs doesn't know about it. It will go down slightly better now that she's seen me actually doing something with the other one I've already got ;) The performer is in a little bit worse a state than the decade rust wise so I've got some citric acid to do the bulk of the work for me.
Now then, regarding the dia-compe 128 levers. If I wanted to have them repainted how would I take the pots and bits off? Is it possible? Is it worth it?
Mr67:
God i dont know, i picked up a mint set of locking Lee Chi locking ones with the decade and i used tech 5 levers on the other.
hokuspokus74:
so you putting the pro-class rims on it?i was going to put them on my build but there going on my streetbeat,have 3 sets of them but i got the og skyway oe with the F&F and a few other parts but still on the search for the other parts,so what parts you getting powdered,whats the choice of colour for it?
graham
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