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Offline rick1970

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stripping coloured brake levers advice
« on: February 05, 2011, 08:45 PM »
hi,got a set of pink dc tech 4 levers i want to strip back to alloy is this possible and what do i need to do ?
any ideas thanks..  :daumenhoch:

Offline southern andy

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Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2011, 08:47 PM »
Oven pride or caustic soda if they're anno. Paint stripper if they're paint.

I think the standard colours are Anno but i'm not sure on pink.
One build a year, the only way to get it right. No rushing involved.

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Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2011, 08:48 PM »
pink are painted so nitomors
messy job  :-\

Offline rick1970

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Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2011, 08:53 PM »
excelent cheers for that chaps ,was hoping it would be a diy job rather than send away.thanks  :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:

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Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2011, 08:57 PM »
it is dity
nitromors from halfords
paint some on ( use gloves ffs )
watch it bubble
scrape it off

Offline rick1970

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« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2011, 09:06 PM »
it is dity
nitromors from halfords
paint some on ( use gloves ffs )
watch it bubble
scrape it off

;D yeh remember me dad using it on dinky cars years ago amazing stuff to watch :LolLolLolLol: cheers pal

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Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2011, 11:16 AM »
If your repainting just wet flat them and repaint, no need to remove all the old paint,

Offline Andy68

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Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2011, 08:18 PM »
Gonna play Dad now.......... Wear eye protection!!!!! A couple of yrs ago I stripped an old engineers wooden tool chest. I'd finished. picked up some wire wool I'd used and a blob of stripper flicked up off it straight in to my eye! :shocked: The pain...... 3 weeks later after loads of hospital visits I was told I was lucky not to lose my sight...... Would hate it to happen to anyone else.

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Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2011, 09:56 PM »
put them in a tin with nitromores in overnight and watch the magic in the morning :)

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Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2011, 10:59 PM »
Gonna play Dad now.......... Wear eye protection!!!!! A couple of yrs ago I stripped an old engineers wooden tool chest. I'd finished. picked up some wire wool I'd used and a blob of stripper flicked up off it straight in to my eye! :shocked: The pain...... 3 weeks later after loads of hospital visits I was told I was lucky not to lose my sight...... Would hate it to happen to anyone else.
ouch!! Goggles it is then in a tin overnight..don't plan on repaint maybe just back to alloy then lacker or polish cheers lads :daumenhoch:

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