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Title: Yellow Tuffs (restoring)
Post by: RichG41 on January 12, 2012, 08:14 PM

Hi

I recently bought a set of yellow tuffs off here, the front looks as though it's be rubbed down all over with very rough grade sand paper (I'll post a photo shortly) there are deep gouges all over, I only paid £55 for the pair so I didn't expect perfection  :2funny: but I was just wondering has anyone on here tried rubbing Tuffs down with gradually finer sand paper? I didn't want to make them worse but I'd like to improve them or at least reduce the gouges.

Any help would be much appreciated

Cheers

Rich

Title: Re: Yellow Tuffs (restoring)
Post by: rad_pitt on January 12, 2012, 08:19 PM

Yes mate, and worth the sore fingers and hassle. I work from 240 to 400 to 600, wet and dry. They'll come out nicely. Re-dye will also inevitably follow  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Yellow Tuffs (restoring)
Post by: MartyC on January 13, 2012, 03:44 PM

As above, lots of elbow grease and various grades of wet and dry and they'll look like new in no time.

Title: Re: Yellow Tuffs (restoring)
Post by: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on January 14, 2012, 12:53 AM

slowly slowly catchy monkey

and sore fingers  ;D

Title: Re: Yellow Tuffs (restoring)
Post by: russ j on January 14, 2012, 12:56 AM

got to agree with all the above.I did a set of Blue Tuffs and i started with a 350 working up to a 1000.A lot of hard work and sore fingers but well worth the effort  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Yellow Tuffs (restoring)
Post by: RichG41 on January 14, 2012, 08:31 PM

Hi

Thanks for all your comments, I know it'll be worth the effort now. I'll post some before and after pics once done.

Thanks again  :daumenhoch:

Rich

Title: Re: Yellow Tuffs (restoring)
Post by: Gashead on January 14, 2012, 08:33 PM

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=137999.0



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