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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.'
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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?