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A Little Pedal Resto Today whilst the Family were watching Movies - PIC HEAVY

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Picklez:
Not my best efforts ever but had a set of Skyway Pedals that were in need of a work over.

I picked these up a couple of years ago from an old member on here. They were in a pretty bad way, cages painted white and axles look like they were painted with under-seal. Then a while back I was fortunate enough to source some NOS cages from US ebay and some reproduction end caps from the magic man that can make most things moulded  ;).

Anyway this is how they started the day off:







A quick strip and rinse:



and they looked like this (under the dodgy paint the axles were quite heavily surface corroded):



and the degreaser looked like this (no sea gulls harmed in the process, but that is my wife's toothbrush in the background  :2funny:)



A couple of minutes on the bench grinder and the axles came up just about acceptable:



Three coats of satin black on the axles and a lot of elbow grease on the bodies and I got to this:





Then the nos fixing kit came out of the plastic for the first time in 30 odd years:



Unfortunately I wasn't happy with a couple of the nuts so off for a quick coke bath:







Still not perfect but a bit better:



Then piece them all back together gain:





They're not perfect, but a damn site better than they started the day. Hope you enjoyed  :daumenhoch:

Bfellows:
Love a good resto thread  :daumenhoch:

hokuspokus74:
Very nice turned out well for a few hours work  :daumenhoch: i'll send ya my pedals ive a few sets to do  :-\

MartyC:
Come up a treat and look as good as NOS  :daumenhoch:

NORTY40:
Nice resto , came out great  :daumenhoch:

Did you paint the body's  ?

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