Today's D-Day.....ie decal day.
I hate putting decals on....i know
@Peachy! The decal king will probably tell me all the tings i did wrong, but here goes.
It would also like to point out i know nothing about putting them on.....so any ramblings here you decide to listen to you do entirely at your own risk!
Firstly.....i took loads of photos of the frame before it went away for powder, these also had a rule in so i could mark the positions back on the newly painted frame.....useful.
Second, i always spend some time marking these positions with a glass pencil. I also mark out the tube centres.....see 1st photo.
Then i simply find the middle of the decals and apply them to the lines or a relative distance apart.....presto.
I was even lucky enough to be able to (with some heat) remove the original shop foil decal and reuse it after spraying new adhesive to the rear. That was quite important to me as it was a shop i new very well ( my best mate working there till it closed). This dates to a galaxy far far away when dialing codes only had 4 digits and the number just 5!
Its also a very sad reminder, for an ex independent bike shop employee, of how many of these fabulous small shops have been lost to the faceless likes of CRC and Evans.
Just where i worked alone there were at least 5 that have been lost.....a few survive, but sadly with each loss goes a raft of knowledge and skill.
I learnt tons as a kid from the guys i worked with, many who had spent their entire lives in shops and racing......and no.......at no point did i go on an insurance approved, 2 day, Shimano dedicated training (read sales) course.
Sorry rant over......
One other nice thing is that several of the NOS parts ive ear marked for this build, came from the same shop when it sadly closed in the 90s......ive never found an appropriate use for many and my recent clear turned up a fair bit of gold.....which some out you have benefited from too!
So really im now into the build after a good frame polish......