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AshimotoK0:
What I  actually do Menno is strip the paint first with the 'banned for private use',  Methylene Chloride based stripper and then lightly bead blast the corroded areas. The other 500K0 tank I have here which I am sending you sometime , I hardly had to blast at all because the surface underneath the paint was pretty near perfect. I like to pre-strip paint of tanks because I often have several tanks and like to determine which is best to spend the paint money on. Some tanks have hidden horrors underneath the paint like large areas of filler and quite often the best one is not necessarily the best of the bunch to have restored after stripping .

The CD125 tank is still in Japan but when it arrives I won't strip it until I have sent you some shots of it. Perhaps I could get the frame  and swinging arm & chaincases  done in the UK and you could quote me on the  tank and smaller bits. I have no particular preference between yourself and Andrew ...you are both excellent painters who I would have no problem recommending on these forums I am on. You possibly have the edge on turnaround times.

Menno:
Please be aware that if you want the paint on the cd be exactly the same on all the parts you best paint it all together in one paintjob.
It is the best and only way to avoid colour differences.

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