Ernbar
I live for the CABE
I couldn’t resist the price so got this 51 lady Shelby from fellow caber Kirk Thomas. I’m hoping to get the wife motivated into riding it but something tells me I will doing most of the riding on this one.
The gooseneck, truss rods and rims were painted over with a metallic grey greenish paint that polishes up almost like chrome. Using lacquer thinner I removed the paint from the gooseneck and truss rods revealing good chrome underneath.
I may strip the rims later on to remove the paint but wonder how the chrome will be under it. Right now it doesn’t look bad at all. Using Flitz the paint polishes up to almost a chrome like finish.
The paint is simply in amazing condition. Unfortunately a knuckle head in the past used a bunch of reflective tape covering up the hand painted pin striping on the fork. I read a thread here in the CABE about using a heat gun to remove the tape.
Using my heat gun and a plastic spatula the tape came off really easy. I then used Lift Off to remove the sticky tape residue .
The gooseneck, truss rods and rims were painted over with a metallic grey greenish paint that polishes up almost like chrome. Using lacquer thinner I removed the paint from the gooseneck and truss rods revealing good chrome underneath.
I may strip the rims later on to remove the paint but wonder how the chrome will be under it. Right now it doesn’t look bad at all. Using Flitz the paint polishes up to almost a chrome like finish.
The paint is simply in amazing condition. Unfortunately a knuckle head in the past used a bunch of reflective tape covering up the hand painted pin striping on the fork. I read a thread here in the CABE about using a heat gun to remove the tape.
Using my heat gun and a plastic spatula the tape came off really easy. I then used Lift Off to remove the sticky tape residue .
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