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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: Glynnyboy on November 04, 2016, 12:22 PM
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Were silver dx painted or just bear cast alloy?
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Never owned a set personally, but from NOS ones I've seen for sale over the years they were all bare alloy very lightly polished.
Google 'NOS Silver Shimano DX pedals' and plenty of images come up showing them like that too.
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Yeah I missed out on a set on eBay last week. The pics looked like you could clearly see cast marks but they were really shiny like they were either painted with something or chemically brightened to achieve the shine whilst leaving the marks.
I have some nos red ones & the cast is easy to see.
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Aren't they clear anno'd?
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They are bright silver anodised Glynn.
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They are bright silver anodised Glynn.
That's what i thought too
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don't think any were annodised, they were painted or bare alloy.
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I thought they were bare alloy, from what I've read all the other colours were painted
If the pins are steel then they's surely have to anodise them before fitting if that's the case?
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Anodised before the pins are fitted, the pins would be zinc plated, so you wouldn't see any real difference in colour.
Someone must have a nos pair to show us?
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The black set I refurbished was painted if that helps.
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here's an interesting read*
http://www.vintagebmx.com/community/lofiversion/index.php/t4004408.html
* if by 'interesting' you mean a load of people arguing the toss over paint vs powder vs ano with no concrete verdict at the end :teef:
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here's an interesting read*
http://www.vintagebmx.com/community/lofiversion/index.php/t4004408.html
* if by 'interesting' you mean a load of people arguing the toss over paint vs powder vs ano with no concrete verdict at the end :teef:
The black set I had tried the oven pride method would not touch it..
Had to use paint remover which worked a treat.. fistblump
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blue ones I've just stripped were definitely paint.
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i've stripped blue and gold and both were paint, also bought new silver ones a couple of times bitd and they were just bare alloy.
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Yeah I missed out on a set on eBay last week. The pics looked like you could clearly see cast marks but they were really shiny like they were either painted with something or chemically brightened to achieve the shine whilst leaving the marks.
I have some nos red ones & the cast is easy to see.
I got them :). If I had known you wanted them I wouldn't have bid.
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No worries. Can't believe they fetched more than the blue ones either .
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I need them for the CC. Can't have a used set letting the bike down.
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All Dix pedals were painted,cast aluminium doesn't ano very well.
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All were painted. Silver were clear coated over fresh new ally .
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All were painted. Silver were clear coated over fresh new ally .
Does this mean if I want to strip my gold SXs then I need paint stripper rather than OvenPride?
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Even nitromors will strip DX pedals.
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All were painted. Silver were clear coated over fresh new ally .
Does this mean if I want to strip my gold SXs then I need paint stripper rather than OvenPride?
Sure do