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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: Taipan on October 24, 2018, 03:52 PM
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How do I clean up and polish a ball burnished ripper? Its been stuck in a lock up for years and looks what is like a Haze all over it? I have lightly gone over an area with very fine wire wool and it is shifting leaving underneath a pretty good shine,but this is gonna take an age to do ;) anyone ever cleaned up one before? lmk any tricks of the trade you've used please :daumenhoch:
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Mine had been in a shed in Alabama for years and was covered in oxide particles. I gave it a SUPER-LIGHT clean with some Mother's Aluminum polish and it was spot-on after that. It still had the original downtube decals on it so I used the aluminium under the decal as a reference point.
Good luck and get some photos up.
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thx fella I'll get on the net for some mothers' :daumenhoch:
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polishing alone won't get you that 'ball-burnished' look again - you could end up just polishing it away (so go easy)
there was a thread somewhere about a guy who apparently could redo this finish but I think he was based in US or Oz
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http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,146089.msg1430895.html#msg1430895
found this thread searching for 'ball burnish'
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I’ve got one of these hanging up in the cave, be interested to see how yours turns out ;)
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Have you got a picture? I never touch my burnished Ripper, except to just ‘clean’ it. Anything more than breathing on it and it will start to shine.