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ebmbiker:

--- Quote from: Nurse Julie on April 07, 2022, 10:57:36 AM ---The part on ebay the Sye posted a link to is one of my eBay listings. If you're interested, PM me and I will give you a discount and do post at cost as I won't have yo pay ebay charges.

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Thanks for the offer Julie, but your item is far too nice for my project. I’ve found a rusty one that I’ll blast and powder coat.

On the subject of removing casting marks, I do. I filed all the casting marks off the R6 fork lowers and triple clamp before they were powder coated. I don’t like parts to look like a sucked boiled sweet, just tidied up. Which reminds me, I should start a post in the Project section

Oddjob:
It's like a piece of Chippendale furniture, do you want it still full of dry rot and woodworm or do you want to see it in all it's glory.

Shame, if you wanted a rusty one I had one spare, I like to just muck about with spare parts so I started to tidy it up. Now has no rust, no chrome, no nickel plate, no rough edges, no hammer marks where others had tried to remove it and failed. I'll have it chromed and sell it on after I reckon. Or maybe I'll use it on mine. Not polished yet but still fairly shiny.

deltarider:
Here is a good example of what I mean by 'satin look' and it's that original look I prefer. The Yanks have a habit of exaggerating and making anything as shiny as a mirror. Every new generation HD comes with more chrome. Not for me. With the satin look the bike looks original and in balance. By going beyond, other parts of the bikel come out imperfect. It will look unbalanced and vulgar like too much make-up. It's a good thing the mirror like look will not last long. ;) All a matter of taste ofcourse

Oddjob:
So you must hate the police bike James is doing as it's got quite a few unoriginal polished parts.

Oddjob:
Spotted this the other night when i was trawling for parts on Ebay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203913511655?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D3d5f94b864b74efba6527cb0823cb551%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D294893858854%26itm%3D203913511655%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057%26brand%3DHonda&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A0211aade-bdc2-11ec-8cb4-ca5e170857b1%7Cparentrq%3A3404779a1800a44c1f288d16fffdeaa2%7Ciid%3A1

That's supposed to be NOS but I'll be honest here and say that's an awful finish on it, rough, casting and machining marks all over the place, chrome is pretty poor IMO. However they have plated both sides of the lever.

Saying that I finished the old lever I was mucking about with the other day.

I also found the lever which came off the bike I'm restoring, I must have got it plated by R&S in Manchester when I took some parts to be de-chromed. forgotten about it TBH.

Now compare both of these levers with the NOS one and honestly say you'd prefer that.

Old lever, sanded, polished but not chromed yet.









Newly chromed lever, TBH I don't think there is a lot of difference between the two except the chromed one is shinier.

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