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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: gossa on September 21, 2007, 12:42 PM
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Got one of the last USA built flovals in baby blue. thinking of polishing it, does anyone know who can do a cracking job? Alternatively anyone got a ball burnished one to trade?
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Just aquired this last month (Loopy Floval) , it was originally Painted, came out a treat,
I believe PK Radman (Lee) got Biagio (at Vert-ego) to do the Polishing work, so may be worth asking Lee.... :daumenhoch:
I love Flovals, any pics of yours? What year is it ?
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g48/noahnhenrysdad/P1000064.jpg)
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Not sure what year mine is, I reckon 96'ish. Baby blue with chrome landies. I love it because the geometry is pretty 'now' and I want to race it next year. It's got a mix of old and new school parts including a Shimano DX seatpost (havene't seen many of those around here).
Not sure if it's going to polish up well, if not i'm going to powdercoat it white.
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That is a sweet one, MonkeyB !
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Ok here's mine, i've just put more details in the chat area for opinions on my winter project.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd42/clivegossa/DSC02361.jpg)
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Monkey are those pads cali lite or repro's?
Cheers
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send it to Paul at Custom Colour, he odes ace polishing but be sure to tell whoever polishes it not to polish out the welds
:) DINGO :)
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Monkey are those pads cali lite or repro's?
Cheers
they're Repro's from JJR in Belgium mate - didn't want to pay £200 plus for originals !
Looking for 24" Blue Araya's or UKAI's for the Floval, if you know of any :)
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Just looked at my saddle angle, i'm running a shimano dx post back to front, do you reckon shimano were anticipating the future there and made it reversible? Uncanny!
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have a go yourself mate,i did this with a bench polisher,it was well oxidised and damaged it had been outside for 5 years behind my garage...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y77/sawzall717/engine007.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y77/sawzall717/engine004.jpg)
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send it to Paul at Custom Colour, he odes ace polishing but be sure to tell whoever polishes it not to polish out the welds
:) DINGO :)
yeah, can be an issue, there are a couple of slight 'flat' areas where the welds were polished just a little too hard on the Floval, but not really that noticable....
good call though Dingo
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the secret to not polishing out welds is to use a slower motor ,takes a bit longer but its worth it to keep them lovely welds ;) i use a 1400 rpm motor which less than half the speed a polisher would use ;)