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that's nice. What did you use to clean the rust up on the front shifter. soft wire wool and elbow grease or something else?
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I use a variety of techniques depending on the parts.
For larger items electrolysis is useful. For a lot of smaller parts, oxalic acid (or any similar acid) will convert the rust.
For a single small part, I get the Evaporust. It is excellent. And then apply polish to seal the component.
https://evaporusteurope.com/
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Cheers. Yep, I'm gonna live with it. It was just that thing of putting it on for the first time and it not being what you imagined. I'm quite happy with it now. There's gonna be a lot of patina on the parts (I actually chose the colour with rusty parts in mind) so it's fine.
To be honest, I've not been very methodical and used different cleaning methods as I've gone along. At first the wd40 and tinfoil trick but I also soaked stuff in a citric acid and warm water bath and then rub them lightly a copper kitchen scrubber, which I think worked better with less elbow work (and less toxic). A lot of the parts weren't too bad under the layers of greasy dirt and the awful 70s 'gemtape.'
Big_Block
nonowt
Thanks @7ven
Slowly building up my Ellis Briggs after a few false starts and generally laziness. Although I don't really have room for it as a full bike...
Pictures of it as bought and as a work in progress