I must admit was very poor at craft, design and technology and am more office loser than handyman. I keep seeing amazing jobs where people take battered parts, put some love and effort in and end up with epic (usually cheap) shiny new looking stuff!
My step Dad though is a wizard with stuff like this, but we need a bit of a leg up the ladder!
RUSTY LEE
Having bought Oxalic acid and dropping nuts in it, we noticed that it fetches off all the rust, but coats I white stuff. Using a dremmel and brass spinning things this seems to fetch up OK but not mint. How do people deal with rust using Oxalic? Is everything safe to drop in it or does it eat metal?
PLASTIC FANTASTIC
We looked at buying a buffing wheel as we saw people buffing plastic seats. Does this work an would a £299 buffer be good enough, or are there places that restore plastic?
METAL MICKEY
You see a pair of Shimano DX for $24 and they are wrecked. If I got them to the UK do places restore such things with gouges out them etc?
To do at home is it a case of file down the burrs, fill the damage, sand down and spray / coat or are some pedals beyond repair?
Despite watching every episode of American Restoration, think I am light years off being able to do this!
Thanks in advance!