SaltHammer Savannah Sand Flats Silver King (1935 Monark Silver King) - Aug01 FINISHED! What A Blast!

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I saw your bottom bracket and immediately thought of this:
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Cool, it's some LYN. PD police id number. It had a Long Beach bike tag on it when I got it.
Big change over the past couple of days


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Did some more polishing tonight.
Got the cast headtube done.

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Just after I took the above pic, the frame fell over and I got some shiny new dings on the headtube from the asphalt. :mad:

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Oh well, I'll smooth them out a little on my final pass, but I'm not to worried. This frame has plenty of now polished scratches and nicks.

Here is the unpolished side of the fork.

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And the polished side

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Pretty sweet improvement on the front of the frame.

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I also painted a basic fender dart on my scrap test fender to get a feel for color.

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How are you even typing? Your hands must be like vulture claws at this point, well worth it though, the frame looks awesome. All that tedium is paying off. Keep on rubbin' it's looking great.:thumbsup:

If he's not wearin' gloves his fingers are probably black but I'll bet he's havin' a ball. That looks like some fun polishing. Coming out sweet!

Triple dart on the triple duck?
 
Someone asked what my process has been for the cleaning / polishing. Nothing fancy, but here it is.

To start with I had to get the crud off. I'm not sure if it was an old varnish or some scaly corrosion. I had to go over all of the cast pieces inch by inch and scrape it all off. I did this with a dull 5in1 and a small utility knife.

I just made up the rest of the process based on what was close at hand.

First pass, cover area with a little rubbing compound. Start with 1000 grit wetsand using simple green sprayed on as the "wet" part. Cleaning it off every now and then, Then continuing with simple green wet sanding until I feel like I am down to a polishable level on the aluminum. I did this using small 1/2x2" strips of 100 grit sandpaper and my fingers.

Followed by red buff wheel on a drill, Applying red buffing compound block to padding now and then.

Followed by putting some MAAS polishing creme on the frame and using the buffing wheel on a drill again.

Followed by the MAAS again and a hand polish with a rag.

That's all I have done so far. I'll probably follow later with a buffing wheel and the white compound block and some more MAAS (both with the wheel and by hand)
 
Continued polishing tonight.

Got the fork finished.
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Then time to get the tubes dones.


Downtube

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Mid tube before

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Mid tube polished

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And then the top tube. Only thing left is the seat tube.

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Then I risked life and limb to get a fireplace pic. This is the only time you will ever see a bike inside of Queenfish's house. If you guys stop hearing from me, drink a toast to me at my wake.

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HEY MAN! What about the insides of the stays and forks....

Merle. :crazy:

The casting surface on those spaces is much rougher than the rest of the bike. I don't believe they were ever polished.

Plus, since I am using the Mooneyes, those areas won't be seen.
 
So, knowing bare aluminum's propensity to 'gray over' or oxidize, how do you plan to keep / preserve the shine on the tubes / lugs?

Haven't decided on that yet. I was thinking of clear coating it, but I really hate to do that. I saw some stuff called ShineSeal, but it is freaking $60 for 4oz!!!!!!! I'll probably just wax it. Not sure how well that will hold up to our brutal humidity though.
 

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