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POLISHING ALLOY WITHHIN AN INCH OF ITS LIFE - WHY?

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harris:
im with you on all that jj ,if its bashed up and really passed it then maybe polish
but if just nicks and scratches a good clean and scrub then leave it alone.
if its not good enough for your show bike then sell it and wait for a minter.
i buy bikes so others dont restore them well some still do but its all for the originality.

mileyboy:
how's it done then?-do these guys have polishing wheels-is it a dremmel job-just curious?

MartyC:
I remember bitd me and my mates would strip and polish everything!  Many a Saturday morning spent stripping stems, brake levers, brakes, pedals, rims, hubs and spending ours with Autosol, elbow grease and a polishing wheel polishing them.  They may not have come standard like it but a hell of a lot of us used to do it.

I remember the first time we used caustic soda, our eyes streaming and nearly choking as well as destroying a tech 3 lever  :D.   Warren King's dad went mad when he first found out what we were doing in his garage with no protection and no ventilation  ;D.  Garage door open, marigolds on, adult supervision and a polishing wheel afterwoods and we had blinging brakes like wou wouldn't believe - way better looking than the ano silver ones  :daumenhoch:  We even used to take parts into school to use the tech rooms there at lunchtime to polish stuff.  I also made a couple of "power disks" from alloy but although they polished up really well they were wank as the alloy was not up to job and they would twist, the crank would muller the fixing hole and the chainrings would stretch the mounting holes.

MartyC:

--- Quote from: Rom Bloke on January 12, 2008, 10:33 AM ---john...dont give it all that....you love a good polish!!

Dave

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Ahh, a good polish, one like this...



Or like this...



 :LolLolLolLol:

dwain dibbly:

--- Quote from: mileyboy on January 12, 2008, 11:37 AM ---how's it done then?-do these guys have polishing wheels-is it a dremmel job-just curious?

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im just in the middle of a "how to polish alloy" at the moment.
im doing a pair of 24" ukai's and and hubs. it will go through all the steps
and tools needed.
i should have finished by the end of the weekend :daumenhoch:

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