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bert4142

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Acorn mag resto
« on: January 24, 2012, 08:13 PM »
Picked these up from fellow rad member as a project to see if i could restore them, they were pretty rough when i first saw them.   :-\
The freewheel was rusted on and the hubs were seized.


Then after stripping the hubs off and sorting bearings, mags were put in bleach for couple days and then cleaned, hubs wire wooled and bolted back on after a little polish up.
Now looking like new!
This is the front one so far.   :smitten:


Now i am waiting for a new bearing on rear as had to smash it out when putting in vice to remove freewheel. Hubs had a polish and will post up a pic of rear once put back together.



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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2012, 08:16 PM »
Top job there  :daumenhoch:

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2012, 02:39 PM »
Looking great

The wheels i used to run BITD :-)

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2012, 03:11 PM »
I had the first versions with thinner spokes! Acorn Magnums? they were soooo flexy... I hope these a better.

Great resto  :daumenhoch:
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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2012, 03:47 PM »
No, they're just as bad  ;D

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2012, 03:56 PM »
Nice work  :daumenhoch:

Thats the advantage these have over tuffs, at least you can remove and replace the hubs without destroying them

Probably where it ends though  :)
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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2012, 05:28 PM »
Excellent job that man  :daumenhoch:

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2012, 05:49 PM »
Cheers chaps im glad with the end result !
Also finished some alloy hub skyways today but although they come out nice they aint as white as these.

Had to seriously greese up the hub to stop it being attacked and it worked.
May have to go back in for another bleaching with fresh bleach to see if it makes any difference.

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2012, 11:19 PM »
Well done!you achieved much better results than i had!I had a set of 'creamy beige' acorns which were still nos and not nearly as bad as yours were!I had them in bleach for 5 days and they just laughed at me!I followed the resto sticky to the letter and the wheel in the sticky is an acorn too albeit an ammaco stamped one.I gave up and sold them on!! :daumenhoch:

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2012, 12:03 AM »
they come out real good.
i got a set of aero zytecs im just about to have a go at bleaching.
if i remember though they were more of an off white than these were.
spin forever though.skyway should have gone down the sealed bearing route years ago.
dave the bmxing gypo


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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2012, 12:21 AM »
they come out real good.
i got a set of aero zytecs im just about to have a go at bleaching.
if i remember though they were more of an off white than these were.
spin forever though.skyway should have gone down the sealed bearing route years ago.


You'd have thought they'd have been in there first with sealed hubs  :-\,,,,but

Skyway did sealed bearings in their 1984 3rd gen Graphites,Dave  :)




There were 3rd party companies who made sealed hub conversions for Tuffs that were bolted on too



Those Acorn's came up a proper treat  :daumenhoch:
« Last Edit: January 30, 2012, 12:24 AM by Hunterdubber »

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2012, 12:31 AM »
you had to be posh to afford them fookers back then though lol.
i remember a place just up the road from where we lived in penkridge started doing a bolt in conversion but never lasted long  :-\
dave the bmxing gypo


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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2012, 03:13 PM »
I got a black pair of these on my GT, roll really smooth, the rear has never run true, but they take my weight OK. Also just got a NOS pair in cream (Shop soiled) for £40 off the bay, I'm hoping to get them whiter, with the bleach method, these will go on my boys ride (Or he'll get the black)

bert4142

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2012, 03:34 PM »
I dont know if it is relevant but i used 50/50 bleach to water, 6 litres of each. was a strong mix, then rubbed em down with scourer and fairy powerspray.

Then rinse and dry.


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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2012, 04:09 PM »
I got a black pair of these on my GT, roll really smooth, the rear has never run true, but they take my weight OK. Also just got a NOS pair in cream (Shop soiled) for £40 off the bay, I'm hoping to get them whiter, with the bleach method, these will go on my boys ride (Or he'll get the black)

They sound like the ones i got!from bankrupt_bike_parts??I used neat bleach,8 litres of it i think and still no result!!report how you get on dude,be interesting to see if you have a better result!! :daumenhoch:

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2012, 04:31 PM »
Yeah, I got a pair of the cream ones from Bankrupt.... a few weeks ago also. Let me know how you get on with the bleaching, love to see the end result before I do mine.

Steven

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2012, 04:56 PM »
Yeah, I got a pair of the cream ones from Bankrupt.... a few weeks ago also. Let me know how you get on with the bleaching, love to see the end result before I do mine.

Steven

bloody hell,the way the ebay ad sounds like he only has one pair!! :idiot2:

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2012, 05:51 PM »
They sound like the ones i got!from bankrupt_bike_parts??I used neat bleach,8 litres of it i think and still no result!!report how you get on dude,be interesting to see if you have a better result!! :daumenhoch:

Yeah, I got a pair of the cream ones from Bankrupt.... a few weeks ago also. Let me know how you get on with the bleaching, love to see the end result before I do mine.

Steven

They are from the same place, got the coaster brake on mine (which I hope to take off) I'll try the bleach out and let you know how it goes.

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2012, 11:47 PM »

No getting a good result with the bleaching  :-\

I think the trick is to use decent branded bleach  ;)

Don't buy pound store special  :crazy2:

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2012, 11:58 PM »
Great transformation :daumenhoch:

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #20 on: January 31, 2012, 10:21 AM »
Excellent job  :daumenhoch:

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Re: Acorn mag resto
« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2012, 10:27 AM »
I used parazone bleack if thats of any use to you.

Thanks for the comments fellas  :daumenhoch:

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