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tmuir
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I just removed the cylinder and wheels from the Sr1 getting it ready for a degrease tomorrow and discovered the black on the top is not completely caused by corrosion, at some point someone has painted the top of the cowling black so with a bit of work the chrome work may come up good enough to be left as is. 
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Mamodman123
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Good news Tmuir! Hopefully it will polish up well! Hope it does anyway!
The paint might have saved the chrome!
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Can't believe somebody painted it. But maybe a lucky find for you mate. Fingers crossed. 
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If you remove that little bit of rust coming through it will probably be ok
Lucky it's painted, but you often think why people do that?
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| Mamodman123 wrote: | If you remove that little bit of rust coming through it will probably be ok
Lucky it's painted, but you often think why people do that? |
Tasteless nurks!
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| yosa wrote: | | Mamodman123 wrote: | If you remove that little bit of rust coming through it will probably be ok
Lucky it's painted, but you often think why people do that? |
Tasteless nurks! |
 Black is the new chrome didn't you know Yosa
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This seasons SR1 by Amani. Note the elegant simplicity, for daytime or evening.
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| yosa wrote: | | This seasons SR1 by Amani. Note the elegant simplicity, for daytime or evening. |
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I suspected black paint as the 2 rear rivets on the cowling were black but didn't know for sure until I removed the wheels.
Don't think it was to touch up the firebox as it looks original, but I'll know more tomorrow once I've cleaned all the grime and soot off.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| What a lovely little roller, look forward to seeing progress. |
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Did I polish a bit too much?
Shined flywheel and wheel next to an unshined one.
Spents ages with a rag and brasso.....
No not really bought a new stictched wheel for my buffer just polished fly wheel but wheel took it through grades of W&D from 180 to 600 before polishing.
Now another 3 wheels to go.........
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| Top dollar job .. .. |
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Excellent job. Made me all the more intent on changing the coarse wheel on my grinder to a polishing mop. 
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No Tmuir, it looks fantastic. I bet your arms ache after that though!
Sometimes the wheels have corrosion on them, luckily yours look to be perfect or there abouts
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