Show us your…. Shiny parts
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MuchAlohaNui
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Polishing is another thing I would like to learn to do proper. What is your tooling, pads and compounds setup comprised of? Or did you do all of that by hand?
I sand by hand with 800 to 1200 grit. Then I bought a polishing set for the drill at the DIY store. It comes with a rag wheel and blue and white polishing paste. I have a pillar drill, so it works quite well. Finally, I use polish and go over everything again by hand. Until it's enough for me. I use "Elsterglanz" aluminium polish. I know it from my childhood and was always satisfied with it. So it's not a professional material.
MuchAlohaNui
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Awesome. Thank you. You're in Germany? What else are you going to polish?
Yes I'm from Germany.
I have a couple of headbadges lying here that I need to finish and polish, then a couple of cranks and the topcap of the cattlehead could do with a saying and also polished.
MuchAlohaNui
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Howdy. In the middle of re-anodizing these old SRP 'The Brakes' 2.0 cantilever brakes. Been a fight and a half with etching, anodizing and dying. I have about 20 hours into these with all the redoing and troubleshooting 
MuchAlohaNui
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Bumperino? Nothing shiny since the end of June? Or did some stuff get lost in the site hack?
Anywho, for the (never ending) Serotta ATi build like the brakes above.
Action Tec titanium chain rings DIY anodized purple, teal & green.
Anywho, for the (never ending) Serotta ATi build like the brakes above.
Action Tec titanium chain rings DIY anodized purple, teal & green.
27motorhead
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His build thread is awesome and the home anodising experimentation is amazing with lots of detail.
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1994-serotta-colorado-ati-and-a-lot-of-diy-anodizing.455334/Oh and it's quite a nice frame I guess.
MuchAlohaNui
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I'm taking that.
It's detailed so I can go back and check my notesHis build thread is awesome and the home anodising experimentation is amazing with lots of detail.
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1994-serotta-colorado-ati-and-a-lot-of-diy-anodizing.455334/Oh and it's quite a nice frame I guess.
. Thanks for the plug!
