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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: DoubleD on October 19, 2011, 01:16 PM

Title: O.g colur of the alu ripper
Post by: DoubleD on October 19, 2011, 01:16 PM

How to get the original alu colour back  of a o.g ripper

i knew  they did no shine like chrome : Who knows a how to ?

Title: Re: O.g colur of the alu ripper
Post by: MartyC on October 19, 2011, 01:41 PM

They were a ball burnished style finish, have a look at Meticulus recent Ripper build here: http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=133352.0

No shiney shiney finish there ;)

Title: Re: O.g colur of the alu ripper
Post by: Waxintaxin on October 19, 2011, 01:49 PM

Ball burnishing an item frame sized is difficult as no one has the equipment to do it. tanks are all too small ( all that i have found ) so no real way of doing it propoerly tbo

Title: Re: O.g colur of the alu ripper
Post by: meticulous on October 19, 2011, 01:53 PM

its also called barrel rolling, where the frames are put in barrels with very fine balls....

something like this!

Title: Re: O.g colur of the alu ripper
Post by: DoubleD on October 19, 2011, 05:55 PM

aha  kind of hard to do i notice hmmz   i will get a solution for it, some way or the other way

but the  soap bath is doing the ripper very well
its  really in good shape after all these years