Couldn't believe it actually worked! :)

[Swivel]

Lads, bought some Haro copy bars from Jon, these were described as rusty and in need of a re-chrome and when they arrived they weren't in good shape which I knew anyway. I don't have an acid  bath as yet but thought i'll try something I read about on the web. I took a 1-metre length of kitchen foil and scrunched it up into a ball, then poured a very small glass of coca-cola (one for me also with JD in it  ) and dipped it into the coke and started rubbing the bars. No lie, about 15 mins later and not a lot of elbow grease to be honest, here is the result. It basically took off all the rust easily and after a quick once over with Brasso wading, the result is very good, no need for a re-chrome at all. Very happy. What do you reckon? Just need some Bob Haro Vector decals now...   

Matt 


Here is Jon's piccy of the bars before:



And here's the bars after i've had a good go at them:

[munners]

Wicked! Always like new ways. Cheaper than oxalic! looks great mate.

[BrianP]

wow!

nice one, they look well now.

Brian

[kdw712]

i've used the scrunchie foil truck before
not tried it with coke

those results speak for themselves - amazing !

[Swivel]

Thanks lads, yeah it really has amazed me.... just shows you what coca-cola can do to our stomach's eh?

[munners]

Ive got loads of rust in my belly so it should work wonders.

[Swivel]

Haha Because it worked so well I dug out the kuwi from the loft and had a look at that, only thing is that the chrome really has pealed on that so can't do my foil trick on it unfortunately... will try it on my survivor Ammaco though that's for sure as it really did work well.

[bodamus]

Wow great job I shall be trying that at the weekend.

bodamus.

[kuwahero]

Bacofoil & Coke. Make mine a double. Lol

Great result Matt. I'm going to give it a try tonight.

p.s. Take it you got the decals ok


Marc

[Swivel]

Marc hi mate yep got them thanks a lot, top stuff... also Ian, you should give it a go mate it really does work... also pour one for yourself and stick a large vodka in there

[Dhillon]

Cheers for the tip Matt!   

Damn good results on the bars

[bmxmatt1974]

cheers for the tip, will be trying that

[Swivel]

Try it lads, it really works... also you hardly use any coke too... I think I used not even a quarter of a small whiskey glass full to do them bars, so to do a whole frame you'll probably use a glass or two. Its certainly a cheap way of removing rust from chrome that's for sure. Then afterwards either use autosol or something similar to buff them up to a bling finish