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POLISHING ALLOY WITHHIN AN INCH OF ITS LIFE - WHY?

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ron burgundy:
I don't like this over buffed stuff, I think it looks tacky... think coin rings and big fook off hula hoop ear rings...

Some one post a thread on how to make alloy look new... as in not shite :)

RATTY:
In defence of the polishing, bitd a lot of us walthamstow boys (and loads of others) went through a stage of removing all the stickers off the frames and removing all the annodizing and polishing any alloy parts with autosalvol or something similar. Cav Strutt started this from memory and was a protest at the factory teams, he said the stickers were advertising them (dig at mongoose if i recall). The polish instead of colour phase lasted until I retired in 1983.
We spent hours removing the anno and polishing with the wheels still built. So although polished parts were not factory standard, they certainly had a part in the early history of bmx.  :daumenhoch:

OrgasmDonor:
i had a squared tuf-neck BITD that i took to school n polished up on a big fook off industrial thing and I, and every ones else, loved it, but now i have to agree i much prefer an original finish, ive put a tuf-neck on my ghp which was faded as fook so i stripped it and thats it, it would easily buff up perfect and be a minter but then the look has gone, i could have polished a bit to make it look loved but i just left it as is "original". however i do enjoy buffin up midschool alloy but that is deffo a case of polishin a turd in oldschool eyes  :LolLolLolLol:

Jt:
no offence to anyone, as all points are valid, but my opinion is i didnt realise there were any rules ???

i like a good custom build, more so than just re-doing something from back in the day...

anyone can look at a picture and replicate....

dont get me wrong, history has its place, but if someone wants to polish something then cool, crack on...

jmho

Jt

Bigplinky:
Must admit Johnny in the main I agree with you don't machine polish as it removes the original machining marks which IMHO take the character of the part away. However if something is so knocked and scratched to be any good other than really heavy duty polishing then why not.

I think it's good when people advertise for colour swaps or exchange good parts for bad so that original finishes can be preserved on the good parts or good anno is not stripped just because it don't fit with the colour scheme you have at the moment.

If anno is scratched but not to many dings on the part then I think the Donors approach is the best strip the anno (with oven pride) and then just a light polish with autosol

Their are only a limited number of original finishes left in the world and if they can be saved they should be

But I always found Rippers blinged only using Autosol

guess I'm just a sad old git like JJ then  :daumenhoch:

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