Raleigh Record Sprint - Teenage kicks

[3wheeler7]

Ref the eyelets, if it's only a "show" bike go to WH Smith and buy one of their silver fibre tip pens and carefully touch up the eyelets prior to rebuilding the wheels.

 

[jim haseltine]

Take a look at the first pic in this thread. I don't think that colouring the eyelets would be an acceptable solution for a man who polishes his hammers.

 

[3wheeler7]

Point taken! But if my memory serves me correctly the eyelets in concave Weimann rims are not stainless steel therefore if the OP were to go down the road of removing the powder coating he would be left with a bare unprotected surface on the eylets thus he will have to polish them regularly (as he does his hammers!)

 

[Y282]

On my year the bar tape was this crappy pretend suede stuff that all the flock came off as soon as it rained. I've gone for padded vinyl black stuff, looks very period.

 

[3wheeler7]

Perhaps my memory no longer serves me correctly, the attached advert says the eyelets are nickeled brass, mine on my Raleigh Corsa or was it my Raleigh Rapide (memory not working again) definitely looked rusty!

 

[Supratada]

They defintely are not magnetic. The one I used the fibre glass pencil on shined up lovely er ly.

 

[Supratada]

Worlds Strongest Rim. I've seen a video about that.

 

[Supratada]

Trouble is, when I google Brass eyelets for bike rims, all I get is cloth and leather working eyelets, or evenm stationery ones, and a very twistedf part of my mind is making think I can "overclad" the existing eyelets with brass ones. That's a rubbish idea I'm sure, hence loking for a way to clean off the PPC.

 

[jim haseltine]

How about a modified drum sanding attachment from a minitool? You could then have a sanding disc with a spigot that could centre in the eyelet hole. It'd take some fettling to get the sizes correct. I'd be inclined to use it as a hand tool rather than with anything powered though.
Photos are awful but I mean something like this

 

[3wheeler7]

If you just want to remove the powder coating on the tops of the eyelets get a suitably sized spigotted spotface cutter, push it into a small file handle and give it a quick twist, job jobbed.