Recent content by pinkfloyddan

I just bought a Dewalt orbit sander for my restoration hobby to remove old paint and rust from bikes and to polish up chrome. But, now I am wondering if it is an angle grinder that I should have bought. For the work we do, should I have gotten this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BM ...

I will probably still keep the tank on there until I find the entire light system. I found this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... NA:US:1123 But I also think this came from a girl's bike.

Ha! I think I will just return them because I didn't really want to use this color but decided to go with what I can see on the bike still. Plus, I need extra money to buy parts that are missing. Anyone know where vintage Huffy Eldorado Parts are sold?

Wow, I had to double take, too. It seems like all three of us found a Eldorado is very similar shape. That's weird.

Where is a place I can get parts for this, I am wondering? I also wonder how can I know for sure everything it is lacking? I just greased everything down with Liquid Wrench for the night and spent about 70 bucks on supplies, such as gray primer, the gloss paint (going with merlot wine) sos...

Do you know a place where I can find parts? I need to find the light fixture to this bike and how to install it. The wiring appear to be still there. Thank you. I am excited and getting ready to go to Lowes to get some steel wool and some primer. I'd love to know what year this bike is.

Here is my bike

Hello everyone, I live in Virginia and I just picked for $50 an old Huffy Eldorado. I don't see an option to attach photos here but it's pretty old and definitely rusty.. The chain was hard as a rock and broke in half. Can someone recommend a place to find "how-to" information on restoring...