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The mystery Kink. Mystery solved...
Midschoolfool:
Fork has been stripped and primed. Long story short, two layers of paint, decal (yes they left it on) and then powder. It sucked, five layers of stripper.
The drops were a particular pain in the bollocks.
They did come out nice though, so there's that. OK. So now I know they only have a decal on the right side leg. This helped. It meant I only had to get one decal sort of right. This was yesterday's attempt, as well as 5 in the bin. I even stuck one layer on upside down :LolLolLolLol:
This was today's attempt.
The black is slightly twisted. However, I like that. It looks like a shadow instead of an outline. The red however? yeah that's good, that's very good. I won't be making any more of these. Mick, what I can do is send you the artwork. It will be way easier and cheaper for you to find a company over there and get them properly printed.
We march on.....
Midschoolfool:
It's satin. Will get clear soon. Will paint the steerer tube black.
Played with parts.
Found the seat clamp.
And a headset.
Seat came today too.
Midschoolfool:
Realised the decal would not work as it was. Not on red. There would have been red on red, making it vanish in spots. Good thing I used to hand cut all of my decals before I got a plotter really.
Clear coat next.
Mikku:
Too many posts to respond to!!! ;D
In no particular order, yes, I had a similar-ish feeling when looking up at the Twin Towers but I think that was just vertigo/acrophobia!! I did go up to the top though and scared myself stupid! :uglystupid2:
That rear hub and wheel look sweet! Good job there mate! :daumenhoch:
No worries about the sticker - I've got way more than I need, so was just being greedy. Fwiw, I don't think they look too bad on the red fork but yeah, red on black would be better.
Midschoolfool:
OK no worries man. Yeah I needed to add that black outline for sure...
I swore up and down I was going to use the Salt cranks. It's almost a paradigm now. I sold the SNAFU cranks for ?80 plus shipping. I regretted it a bit as obviously I could have put them on here. Last night I decided to have a look on Ebay. Already been through the sites, nothing on sale nothing I wanted any way. Then I found these.
I knew what they were. They are KHE's most expensive cranks.
They're NOS, couple of small chips (pretty much like the SNAFU when I bought those). They were 45 quid. So, I got a better set of cranks* and am 35 quid richer.
* As I say, these are KHE's elite cranks. The arms weigh under 600g.
As for an axle? I have one. A Profile Cro Mo one my friend repaired for me (remember those bum cranks I had to restore?). So, not only am I up 35 quid I have better cranks *and* I get to use up that axle. Which is what this build was about from the beginning.
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