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Title: Restoring Araya 7x's
Post by: Weeksy on January 01, 2010, 01:09 PM

Hi dudes,

Just bought my first old school cruiser, and you know what's it like getting decent OS rims in 24"....

So I am forced to make my existing silver 7x's lovely again.

What are your suggestions on how to do this? They are pretty good condition actually, with only a deep marks. They just have lots of faint scratches and are patinated - they look 25 years old!

Your help would be much appreciated

Thanks

Weeksy

Title: Re: Restoring Araya 7x's
Post by: MartyC on January 01, 2010, 01:19 PM

Strip them down and send to Custom Colour Parts who can tidy up the deep scratches, remove the light ones and re-anodise them to look like new again  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Restoring Araya 7x's
Post by: neiljonarcus on January 01, 2010, 01:30 PM

so easy to let some one do the hard work  " have a go yourself"    1st .................... if you carnt do then get some one else involved  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Restoring Araya 7x's
Post by: MartyC on January 01, 2010, 03:03 PM

Quote from: n2cus on January 01, 2010, 01:30 PM

so easy to let some one do the hard work  " have a go yourself"    1st .................... if you carnt do then get some one else involved  :daumenhoch:

So true Neil however, if he wants them returned to original colour best to let a professional do it with the og finish  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Restoring Araya 7x's
Post by: DIRTBIKER250F on January 01, 2010, 05:24 PM

I have just spent 3 hours Auto'sol'n my Chrome T.A, my fingers a fooking aching and although the forks are transformed, im still not happy with how the frame looks, gonna leave it until day time to decide wether to re-chrome it or not.

Least i had a go  :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: Restoring Araya 7x's
Post by: magna13 on January 01, 2010, 05:28 PM

i think some pictures to see whats what will help :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Restoring Araya 7x's
Post by: paullightowler on January 01, 2010, 06:38 PM

Paul at Custom just did my Arayas.
They are mint and so shiney without the hard work !

Title: Re: Restoring Araya 7x's
Post by: Weeksy on January 06, 2010, 06:08 AM

I will PM from youm form work fella.

I think we need to chat!

Thanks mate

Weeks

Title: Re: Restoring Araya 7x's
Post by: neiljonarcus on January 06, 2010, 07:47 AM

Quote from: paullightowler on January 01, 2010, 06:38 PM

Paul at Custom just did my Arayas.
They are mint and so shiney without the hard work !

paul keep the polishing up north mate   :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:



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Title: Re: Restoring Araya 7x's
Post by: Mattdub on January 06, 2010, 08:22 AM

Quote from: Weeksy on January 01, 2010, 01:09 PM

Hi dudes,

Just bought my first old school cruiser, and you know what's it like getting decent OS rims in 24"....

So I am forced to make my existing silver 7x's lovely again.

What are your suggestions on how to do this? They are pretty good condition actually, with only a deep marks. They just have lots of faint scratches and are patinated - they look 25 years old!

Your help would be much appreciated

Thanks

Weeksy

Paul at Custom Colour will re-finish in factory type silver anno , did a cracking job on some 7B's for Waxintaxin  ;) . They look much better IMO than polished .