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Offline Redline

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Suntour XCII's Resto
« on: September 28, 2009, 05:40 PM »
Just finished these XCII's fellas.... wadda ya think?

They were a bit rough to start with so I stripped the cages, polished them up and had them re-anodised. Then just painted in the lettering as I think it looks better than the decals you can get. Painting the lettering is a piece of piss as well... just blob the paint over the lettering then wipe over with white spirit - the paint stays in the recessed lettering and just wipes off the top surface. Had to polish out some deep scratches so lost a bit of the bottom edge of the lettering but still think it looks pretty trick. Then polished up the bodies, fitted NOS Suntour screws and put new decals on the bodies  :daumenhoch:

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neiljonarcus

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Re: Suntour XCII's Resto
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2009, 05:56 PM »
NOW THATS NICE RESTO WORK WELL DONE FELLA  :4_17_5:

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Re: Suntour XCII's Resto
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2009, 06:16 PM »
sweet!!!  :daumenhoch:

get a white paint pen and fill in the text, before it's fully dry use a cotton bud and thinners to lift any excess from the cage.. 'or not ' because they do look great!  ;D

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Re: Suntour XCII's Resto
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2009, 06:17 PM »
NOW THATS NICE RESTO WORK WELL DONE FELLA  :4_17_5:

High praise indeed, coming from the Main Man in resto work.... cheers dude  :daumenhoch:

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Re: Suntour XCII's Resto
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2009, 06:19 PM »
sweet!!!  :daumenhoch:

get a white paint pen and fill in the text, before it's fully dry use a cotton bud and thinners to lift any excess from the cage.. 'or not ' because they do look great!  ;D

That's pretty much what I did fella... problem was that the bottom of some of the lettering got polished out when removing scratches so there's nothing to fill  :daumenhoch:

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Re: Suntour XCII's Resto
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2009, 06:21 PM »
is this what you do inbetween checking out your lodgers knickers.....   :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:

top stuff there fella, you have so much patience....   or time!!!!! ;)
R.I.P  O.M. Far short of the finish line...

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Re: Suntour XCII's Resto
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2009, 06:22 PM »
NOW THATS NICE RESTO WORK WELL DONE FELLA  :4_17_5:

High praise indeed, coming from the Main Man in resto work.... cheers dude  :daumenhoch:


MAIN MAN  i am just a low life bmx freak  :LolLolLolLol:

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Re: Suntour XCII's Resto
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2009, 06:28 PM »
is this what you do inbetween checking out your lodgers knickers.....   :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:

top stuff there fella, you have so much patience....   or time!!!!! ;)

 :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: .... won't be checkin out my new lodgers knickers though dude - she's a minger  :uglystupid2:

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Re: Suntour XCII's Resto
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2009, 06:30 PM »
NOW THATS NICE RESTO WORK WELL DONE FELLA  :4_17_5:

High praise indeed, coming from the Main Man in resto work.... cheers dude  :daumenhoch:


MAIN MAN  i am just a low life bmx freak  :LolLolLolLol:

... yep.. you da man ... haven't seen ya do an average job yet dude. I'd like to say when I grow up I wanna be an N2CUS resto king... but it's too late for that as I'm a 42 year old low life BMX freak  :LolLolLolLol:

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Re: Suntour XCII's Resto
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2009, 06:55 PM »

yum  :coolsmiley:
mongoositis - an expensive disease......

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Re: Suntour XCII's Resto
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2009, 07:13 PM »


pukka, just need to learn how to do chainring bolts up now

justin

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Re: Suntour XCII's Resto
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2009, 08:14 PM »
Top job well done mate  ;)

Keep up the good work  :daumenhoch:

sid1972

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Re: Suntour XCII's Resto
« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2009, 09:30 PM »
sweet!!!  :daumenhoch:

get a white paint pen and fill in the text, before it's fully dry use a cotton bud and thinners to lift any excess from the cage.. 'or not ' because they do look great!  ;D

That's pretty much what I did fella... problem was that the bottom of some of the lettering got polished out when removing scratches so there's nothing to fill  :daumenhoch:

oh yeah, should have read the text, rather than just looking at the pics... sorry!  :-X

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