Hi everyone
I have a turner 5 spot HL frame that I love and am in the process of revamping, new brakes, tyres, forks, bushings etc.
It is currently in its original silver colour, with a polished rear end, has anyone had a very good experience with a particular company in terms of refurbing frames esp with regard to repolishing a rear end? Its has a few areas looking a little tired.
As for the front end, any respray specialists that have done a great job at reasonable cost for the front triangle?
Any help much appreciated.

Just had my Ventana done. Same deal really, polished rear end & painted front triangle. I used a kit to polish up the rear & the results were excellent. Has three “mops” with graded soap. Very easy to do with a power drill clamped in a BD Workmate.
I stripped the front myself, & after abandoning the idea of polishing it (hard work!!!), I had it powder coated locally. Cost me £20. paint finish is excellent, but low choice of colours so wishing I hadnt of had the rockers anodised as I’m not that keen on it now. 🙁

IMAG0657 by pten2106, on Flickr

takisawa2, what did you use to strip the paint off the front end? The paint seems to come off fairly easily in your photos. I’m stripping a powdercoated swingarm at the moment with nitomors but I don’t get any bubbling of the paint and its a right ballache to get it off!

Just Nitrimors. To be fair, the Ventana stuff literally fell off. Used very liberally, left for 30 mins, then more applied until it bubbled. The rest scraped off with an old credit card. Took about 4hrs in total. I’ve known frames in the past that have defied Nitrimors & have had to be dipped.

are the rear ends just polished aluminium and not plated? (sorry for my complete ignorance. I has always thought the ‘polished’ end was an effect caused by plating) if so I have polishing mops, compounds and a top end makita drill so that will save some money if that’s the case.