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My buffing kit arrived today.
3 sets of buffing wheels, felts and compounds.
Before I set to reducing my frame to aluminium dust, are there any words of warning from the collective?
Will be back after a quick spin around the Derwent reservoirs.
Any advice appreciated.
Cheers, Paul.
my advice is wear a wind/waterproof of some sort - the weather's still atrocious 🙁
bah - was hoping for a new super-diet 🙁
Look out for traffic, and it's also a bit slippy
Thank you - sage advice, all heeded.
Back safe and sound, dry and warm.
Now off to polish something.
Pics later if it works
keep your grumble pics to yourself please!
keep your grumble pics to yourself please!
Euphamism?
Too many small scratches to polish up anything just using the kit I had bought, so ordered some cutting compound which has landed today.
Testing on some old ally flat bars commences in an hour.
I will watch with interest to see how it goes!
Tip, use wire brush to clean of mops and do it often. Dont use too much compound.
Edit
That was a bit serious for me. Wear only an apron and wellies whilst polishing.
Better!
i fancy doing this to a set of XTR cranks i have
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Cranks look luuurvley....photo-shopped image but luuurvley.
Ok, here are my very first attempts at buffing. They are on an old ally flat bar from a 91/92 Kona Cindercone (still riding the frame!). They were black, then rubbed down to a crap brush finish and finally thrown in the parts bin for a few years. This is what they looked like:
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After a sequence of cutting compound and three stages of polish they look like this (2hrs):
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Now off into the garage to have a go at the Corratec Ream Bow
Someone loves apples !
