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Title: Make dull stem shine
Post by: adeshere on November 01, 2005, 01:16 AM

I have a dull unpainted stem which sort of shines.

Can anyone suggest a way of making it shine like a mirror or is this not possible without re-chroming ?

Title: Re: Make dull stem shine
Post by: OrgasmDonor on November 01, 2005, 02:24 PM

cover iy with glue and sprinkle some sequins on it, instant bling, DAN-DARE has full bike builds like that :D

Title: Re: Make dull stem shine
Post by: oberonspacefruit on November 01, 2005, 02:41 PM

polish it

Title: Re: Make dull stem shine
Post by: ORB on November 01, 2005, 02:45 PM

did she?

Naughty Parrot

Title: Re: Make dull stem shine
Post by: oberonspacefruit on November 01, 2005, 02:47 PM

yeah. it was behind the door too.

Title: Re: Make dull stem shine
Post by: gjs on November 01, 2005, 05:57 PM

smash a mirror and glue all the bits onto the stem..Mosaic stylee :D :D

Title: Re: Make dull stem shine
Post by: Moose on November 01, 2005, 06:53 PM

You piss-taking barstools, ya.

Cheapo method - get some Autosol from Halfords (or some Tesco's) and give it a good polish. Won't quite shine like a mirror but might be shiny enough.

Expensive method - take it to a metal finishers and get them to polish it.

Title: Re: Make dull stem shine
Post by: Rombloke on November 01, 2005, 08:52 PM

heres the key

400-600-800-1000-1200 grit wet and dry sand it
then autosol....then peek....then t-cut....and it will end up like this
by the way this tuff neck was black
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/DSCF0058.jpg)

Dave

Title: Re: Make dull stem shine
Post by: Bren Gunn on November 01, 2005, 09:06 PM

Bloody hell Dave, that looks crap mate, give it to me and I'll get rid of it for you...

Bren ;D

Title: Re: Make dull stem shine
Post by: Rombloke on November 01, 2005, 09:28 PM

really...ok brenn pm me your address

;)

Dave

Title: Re: Make dull stem shine
Post by: gjs on November 01, 2005, 10:40 PM

Looks like ya polished it too much,I can't see the tuf neck engraving :D ;D

Title: Re: Make dull stem shine
Post by: Rombloke on November 02, 2005, 05:25 PM

that one was black with screen printed logo and tigers head...this one i got from john at bones on saturday, it was blue, same as the base pictured, but was a bit beaten up, deep gouges etc so decided to polish it tonight...15 mins later it looks like this...yum

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/DSCF0002.jpg)

Dave