First full polish

Well I gave the frame a first full polish mainly to see which areas of the bike need more work.

There are a few areas, such as the rear drop outs and a few minor areas which still have some of the original buff marks. But over all it's pretty good looking and that's just after using a rubbing compound on it and no heavy polishing.

Most of the parts I order are now well on there way and I found a place down town Stockholm that can build up the new rim on my old lefty hub. Not sure of ther turn around time, but as luck has it my vacation is postponed another week anyway.

Progress...

Well, I've pretty much managed to remove all the paint, with the exception of the paint inside the cable guides. Not really sure of the best way to attack that.

But the frame looks nice, although the bare aluminium will take a bit of working to make it more finished looking. I've decided to polish it as much as I can and leave it that way, no painting. I know bare aluminium can oxidize if not taken care of, but a good hard wax should protect it for the most part meaning it should only take a light polish now and again. I started with the head tube, since it's the area with a lot of welding. Ok the bottom bracket will probably be the toughest area but I don't want to put myself off polishing straight away.

Once again this will be a slow process to get rid of the heavier buffing marks that were there from factory but I think the effort will be worth it in the long run.

Heck what else am I gonna do for my two weeks vacation starting in a weeks time.

Anyway, here's a little taster of how the frame will look after spending short time polishing the head tube up, a huge difference compared to the raw frame finish.

Nitromors, Nitromors, my Kingdom for some Nitromors

fI know I've said it before, Nitromors is lethal stuff but god I miss it...

That being said I made some good progress today on the frame and at this point it's probably 95% paint free it's that last 5% where Nitromors would really have been useful.

Instead I'll be scrubbing like a §*?#¤%& to get those last bits off.

But damn it's starting to look great!