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She's finally arrived - Changa Build
Picklez:
Awesome find, cheers Toby :4_17_5:
Glynnyboy:
Awesome thread, loving the attention to detail and little updates on why. Going to be one awesome build.
Butts mentioned you the other day actually. Not a lot understand what it might actually take to try bring a part up to standard whilst remaining sympathetic to originality. You don't actually get that from anyone not in the game I think. When you want stuff as right as possible that understanding is important.
Nearly there now. 8)
Picklez:
--- Quote from: Glynnyboy on February 14, 2021, 02:39 AM ---Awesome thread, loving the attention to detail and little updates on why. Going to be one awesome build.
Butts mentioned you the other day actually. Not a lot understand what it might actually take to try bring a part up to standard whilst remaining sympathetic to originality. You don't actually get that from anyone not in the game I think. When you want stuff as right as possible that understanding is important.
Nearly there now. 8)
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Thanks Glynn, coming from you that really is a complement, builds like yours, Terry's, John's, and many others serve as inspiration, so kind words like these mean more than anything.
Say high to Jonathan for me, nd warn him ... I'll be back, soon!
Picklez:
So, time for another instalment. The chain :crazy2:
So, this has been a saga that's been going on for as long as the build has.
From the start I knew what chain I wanted for this. I have a little perversion (well, more than one, but bmx build wise, a desire) to try and get one of my OG parts on any build if possible. With this girl it was the chain. I'm lucky enough to still have mine from BITD. In ?85 when building a DP (from saving money from many Saturday's mowing every lawn going in the local area) I hit the LBS up one week to buy many of the parts needed that I could not salvage from the predecessor to the build DP. One of those was a chain. At the time I picked up this lovely looking thing marketed as a GT hollow chain (blue box, emblazed with the emblem we are all now familiar with, I can still picture it to this day). A chain now more commonly referenced as an IZUMI slotted chain. Well luckily, sitting in a box of bits I still have it.
Fair to say, when I started the build it was in a heck of a state but up for a challenge I thought might as well give it a go.
Here it was last spring, when the build and thread started.
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So, first task (having popped my CA-bath virgin bubble) was to (naively) give it a bath as a first step to bringing it up to spec.
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Yeah, that didn't go too well. The black links lost their colour and the silver links oxidised with a horrible black tarnish type finish :'(
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So, lots more work to do. This involved many tens of hours?
First effort was to nail it to a board and attack it with a Dremel fitted with a small rotary brass wire brush
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Well weeks passed (along with many Dremel wire brushes), on and off doing that. Didn't work too well, and don't seem to have captured any pictures, so obviously nothing positive to write home about with that effort.
So, stopped f-ing about and got the big toys out, and hey presto progress:
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Picklez:
So, feeling a little better I offered it up to the build. Only issue was I wasn't overly happy with the colour, it looked much to ?gun metal? for the rest of the build. Not deterred I started talking with Butts about the chance of getting it chromed. So, after a few chats that was the plan. Strip it:
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And get it chromed
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But unfortunately, the chrome really didn't take well enough for this build, even after two attempts. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming anyone, it's just that when built back up it wasn't to the std of finish I wanted for this build, yes, I'm a tart.
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So, after a period of despondence a plan needed hatching. Another false start ensued. A repo chrome Izumi. Well, that was never going to last was it. Nothing wrong with that chain, and it will be on my next build, but it wasn't going to cut it on this one.
So, fast forward 3 months (to February) and a possible alternate Izumi slotted candidate came up for sale on the Museum. After much negotiation it landed at my house a couple of weeks back:
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