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polishing up arayas?
mark 2:
--- Quote from: customparts on August 31, 2009, 12:56 AM ---I can help you with this problem if you go to the second page on the anodising price list in the tech section you will see some of the work I have done. For £20 its mess free for you and you get the results you want. It will probably cost ya more to buy all the stuff to polish it ya self. I don't want to put people off but I would not recommend stripping aluminium for 20 mins in a solution, you lose a lot of metal and if ya don't get all sticky and other hard to remove bits off the solution disolves the aluminium around the crap making it hard to polish.
I'm not saying this to gain work as I have enough but I'm looking out for you guys
anyway let me know if you are interested
cheers
Paul
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That's what I was getting at, I know Paul does a first rate professional job from what I've seen, charges just £20 (trust me , that's cheap, £40 at my chromers, £30 p/ hour), add a few quid for 2 way postage and it's all done for you. I just had a bee in my bonnet about doing the bike myself but it's a pain in the arse to do and end up with an amateurish result.
russ j:
I stripped these using caustic soda,then took all the brake wear out of them starting with a 350 grade working up to a 1200 grade wet/dry.Then polished them up starting with a Sisal mop with the Brown compound,then onto the White stitch mop with the Green compound then onto the G mop with the Blue compound and the finally finishing with the Pink compound with another G mop.
A lot of work but well worth the results.But as said above,the amount of time it took me (about 3hrs a wheel ;D) it would have been more cost effective to send them to Paul at CCA.....
Anyway here's my wheels:
I did haver them annodised Blue afterwards at CCA:
and now they sit proudly on this (not to everyones taste on here i know ;D:)
Russ..... 8)
daz bmx it!:
Mint work there Russ :daumenhoch: I'm far to lazy to spend hours on stuff anymore ;) CCA is probably my only option now ;D
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