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McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
front forks by Macabe Thiele, on Flickr

How do you remove the plastic shield/cover that sits between the top & bottom section please ?

I'm assuming that the painted section is laquered as there seems to be corrosion between the alloy section & the paint - does anyone know what colour they were painted in originally ?

Clearly I need to strip mine back to bare metal & re-paint them to something close to original finish.

K2-K6:
To remove plastic/rubber covers, get them much warmer first to provide more flexibility. Then you can usually gently prise under the bottom edge to start wriggling them up.

They only "clip" into a groove near bottom edge and won't take much to encourage them to move.

Finish was just a fine brushed/burnished plain aluminium with lacquer over that to give them a final look a bit like an oven door in stainless. 
As you see, once the lacquer is breached the corrosion creeps along underneath it in those spidery trails.

taysidedragon:
A lot of people polish the alloy and leave it like that. I got lazy and painted mine with aluminium colour paint.

Athame57:
K2-K6 has it down to a tee! As for the finish, I removed the old paint and now keep them polished with Autosol, they look great. Same with the brake caliper arm, it's really worth the effort!

heli_madken:
Have a go at polishing them they do seem to be one of the parts that polish easy. If you still have lacquer on the surface I recommend Frost strip Gel - https://www.frost.co.uk/frost-strip-gel-500ml/ it really is like Nitromors used to be, reassuringly nasty to use so make sure you wear thick rubber gloves!

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