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Title: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: SAND N DIRT on September 28, 2005, 04:01 PM

I am confused. So please help me. The aluminum SE (PK rippers) should they be polished or not?

Title: Re: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: theRuler on September 28, 2005, 04:51 PM

its your choice
mine was powdered black from the factory

Title: Re: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: OrgasmDonor on September 28, 2005, 05:01 PM

they were brushed as opposed to super shiney, but super shiney is super shiney, and looks lush. :D

Title: Re: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: SAND N DIRT on September 28, 2005, 05:09 PM

What is lush? Well, anyway MY POINT is that I want to have a SE PK which is fuzzy. Not that shiny. Not cool for the brand SE.

Title: Re: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: theRuler on September 28, 2005, 07:23 PM

polish it then!

or give the excited fat kid in my AV some rags and he'll do it

Title: Re: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: oberonspacefruit on September 28, 2005, 07:41 PM

is it powdered graeme? that takes some comin off...i pity the fool that try's it

Title: Re: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: Waxintaxin on September 29, 2005, 10:23 AM

original finnish was ball burnished , so thats what they should look like IMHO

Rich

Title: Re: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: theRuler on September 29, 2005, 10:42 AM

Quote from: oberonspacefruit on September 28, 2005, 07:41 PM

is it powdered graeme? that takes some comin off...i pity the fool that try's it

inspector mors will take care of it  ;)

Title: Re: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: ORB on September 29, 2005, 01:02 PM

Powder is a bitch to get off if it is thick.

I have just done a frame and it took me a day to do it.

Nice excuse to play with a the heat gun though.

Title: Re: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: theRuler on September 29, 2005, 01:27 PM

i only assumed it was powder
maybe i will be lucky and its just 2 pack!

i'll try the mors on an inconspicuous area
the downtube i reckon  :)

maybe i'll just strip some areas and go for a half polished half paint look.

Title: Re: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: SAND N DIRT on September 29, 2005, 01:31 PM

this frame I am doing aswell is think aswell >  a heat gun is a good option!

Title: Re: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: Rombloke on September 29, 2005, 02:26 PM

ok...lazy striped his pk and it was a pig to do....so i think he took it somwhere to have it dipped??? not sure tho...but even that didnt really do the trick as the welding on the pk's is very deep and bulbous(word of the day)....and wax is right, ball burnished was the correct finish which a satin sheen kind of look

correct me if im wrong but i'll prob delete it if you do!!!

Dave

Title: Re: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: diesel on September 29, 2005, 02:36 PM

Rich is correct:

The original finish was called Ball Burnished

Note* its was not lacquerd afterwards

The process is much like polishing stones, the frame is placed into a tank filled with small ball bearings and then gyrated / agitated, thus polishing the frame.

Finding someone with a tank big enough might be a task in itself.

Title: Re: SE aluminium bikes needs to be fuzzy. Or do they need to be polished?
Post by: lazychubs on September 29, 2005, 05:42 PM

yeah i did try inspector mors and struggled .got a paint shop to do it they coverd the whole frame in it then cling filmed it after .i fink he was a randy git lol
he got rid of most part from welds tho .that was a copper wire brush for that job