Take it/send it to a painter/powder coater who has experience with medi blasting lugged frames. They can clean off that brass flashing pretty quickly.
If you want to DIY, then get a set of riffler files and a roll of good (like 3M) 80 grit production cloth. Use the files to back the abrasive cloth and get into all the nooks and crannies. If you're in the right frame of mind, it can be quite relaxing work.
Cool frame btw.
Alistair.
Oops! "media blasting".
Sorry.
Alistair.
Is the top tube rippled? The photo has a color change right where a impact ripple could be. I'd just sand/file the brass flash away some and do a little shore line clean up too. Andy.
Andy Stewart
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Last edited by e-RICHIE; 12-16-2015 at 03:14 PM. Reason: names addes
that's the way it came from the factory, right? Why make something into something it never was?
I'm just having some fun and practicing bicycle frame stuff. For one day, I will have a torch and a box of tubes.
The Peugeot came to me like this-
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When I apply the Rustoleum, all my modifications will recede and it should look factory fresh.
Jeff Hazeltine
Last edited by e-RICHIE; 12-16-2015 at 03:14 PM. Reason: names added
my suggestion is twofold. First, get your heat control better than that French guy and don't make a mess in the first place. Second, filing lugs is no big deal, but filing tubes is bad. So try really hard not to touch the tubes with a file. Bonus suggestion, start out with lugs that aren't that complex.
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