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My New Project arrives after a 44 year wait!
Rozabikes Tim:
The sound of those adds a zero to any price surely!
Laverda Dave:
A bit more progress to report with Ratty.
I managed to get some industrial paint stripper from a mate who had a drop left after stripping his Ford Pop Hot-Rod. Despite being ‘industrial’ it still struggled and it took three coats to remove the paint from the tank. The PO said he had painted the black over the original yellow, there was no yellow at all on the tank so maybe it is another tank. There is some filler but this is a light coat as there are no dents in the tank that I can see and all is good around the seams. I filled the tank with DEOX-C and boiling water and wrapped it up in the NASA blanket to keep it warm whilst it does its work to remove the internal rust.
I replaced the wheel bearings before taking the completed hubs and new DID rims to a retired gent who has laced wheels for me previously. I dropped them off on Tuesday morning, at 3pm on Tuesday he called to say they were ready! I collected them this morning, £250 including the stainless spoke sets for both wheels and labour, pretty good value considering a stainless spoke set is about £85 per wheel.
Today I’m going to be soaking and scrubbing the various rubber components, I done it once but when they dried out they were still really grubby. I’ll use some rubber restore to bring them back up to a presentable condition.
Johnny4428:
Nice work there Dave! £85 for a set of ss spokes sounds reasonable.
taysidedragon:
The tank looks pretty good. Get some protection on there before it starts rusting! 😟
Laverdaroo:
Good progress Dave, that’s bloody cheap for laced rims including the spokes in SS. In fact a veritable bargain
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