What have you tinkered with today?

Originally Posted by R1ffR4ff

You can bring them up even better if you use a Brass Wire brush drill attachment but if you use this method you MUST wear overalls and safety glasses/googles.The Brass wires can come of and stick in cloths and scar the skin and the Safety Glasses/Goggles for the eyes.

Brass wire brushes can remove a lot of the final corrosion and leave a nice,"Burnished" finish or if once used and you don't like the finish the Metal polish usually works even better after the Burnishing.



https://www.toolstation.com/wire-bru...xoCZjgQAvD_BwE

£2.51

That is not a bad idea. I used Emery cloth on the replacement front header I bought. It does exactly the same thing and removes the top surface of the SS, leaving a sort of burnished finish that comes up pretty well with a bit of Autosol stainless cleaner. Either mechanical method will remove a bit of the metal’s thickness, but then so will the chemical processes (Harpic &c). The SS on the original pipes is pretty thick and seems to be good quality, so it will take quite a bit of scrubbing and polishing.
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AO.


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[SV650rules]

R1ffR4ffs brass brushes will probably do the least damage to the stainless steel as it is a lot softer than the SS and far less abrasive than emery cloth.

Originally Posted by SV650rules

R1ffR4ffs brass brushes will probably do the least damage to the stainless steel as it is a lot softer than the SS and far less abrasive than emery cloth.

Use those then.
AO.


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[R1ffR4ff]

Originally Posted by SV650rules

R1ffR4ffs brass brushes will probably do the least damage to the stainless steel as it is a lot softer than the SS and far less abrasive than emery cloth.

You are right.The soft brass is quite gentle on the metal and leaves a fine brass layer it seems.This gives the burnished look but as said this can be easily polished off with some Autosol type metal polish.The burnished look also seems to corrode slower

Happiness is: a 75W soldering iron. After many years of making do with my (perfectly good for electronics) Maplin soldering iron in the garage, I recently bought myself a 75W soldering iron for joining wires and heavier duty jobs.

I tried it out yesterday (fitting some LED indicators to my K6). It is the business for joining wires: no more waiting 5 minutes for the iron to warm up, or not having enough heat, this makes nice joints in seconds. I wouldn’t want to use it near electronic components, but what it does it does very well indeed.




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[Chris_SVS]

New handlebars,cables, bar tape and tyres on my non motorised cycle

Originally Posted by Chris_SVS

New handlebars,cables, bar tape and tyres on my non motorised cycle

Cool banana - road bike?

[Chris_SVS]

Originally Posted by Othen

Cool banana - road bike?

Indeed, this fine steed - it also got a new saddle last week as the stock one was starting to creak and was doing my nut in

Originally Posted by Chris_SVS

Indeed, this fine steed - it also got a new saddle last week as the stock one was starting to creak and was doing my nut in

Cool bike.

How do you find the disc brakes? They are a step too far for me.


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[Chris_SVS]

Originally Posted by Othen

Cool bike.

How do you find the disc brakes? They are a step too far for me.


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I absolutely love them, over my last winter on rim brakes I went through 2 wheelsets yet the discs and pads on this are the originals from August 2015..

Much like moto brakes I'll give them a good clean every so often and touch wood *points at head* never had any issues.