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Glynnyboy:
When I got the cranks it was just spindle, bb & crank arms. That left me looking for crank caps . Had a delivery this morning, just over a week from Australia for some repo pro class crank caps. The guy at VRC cycles does some decent caps & badges to help get your pedals/ cranks up to scratch.
Also got a message back from MR Creations, the frame and forks are going in the end of March. Hopefully butts will have the rims chromed by then so I should be good for getting it all together in April 😎

Mikku:
This is going to look amazing! 8)

Glynnyboy:
As I said earlier the frame looks in better condition in those first pics than it is. I've got a date to send off to Mark Ralph now so I decided to give it a citric bath .lt's cleaned the rust off the nickle flake areas, I was impressed with the state it left the inside of the match box because that was full of rust. It gives  Mark a clean base to work his majic now. To me this definitely has crossed that survivor line and has entered the rat look region. My opinion on that is that I?d rather it be coated/restored so it's fully protected with the inside wax oiled. Although I do appreciate a good survivor I?d take a decent restoration over a ratter any day. After all back in the day I never dreamed of owning the history in 40 years time , it was the bikes I saw on the pages of bmx action bike that I wanted.

Glynnyboy:
Got sent these pics today from Mark Ralph . He had some problems with coating the frame because of its condition. He tackled it by clear coats of resin to level out any discrepancies due to the nickel peel areas. Then the colour went on. It's going to be curing over the weekend ready to ship back to me next week.

bobafett:
Sexy  :coolsmiley:

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