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Woke up in a could sweat about what I'd done to the Dart. I'd been careful to use old 1200 grit to flat the paint and other than the bare metal areas only dusted lightly so I was hopeful I could sort it.
Luckily it didn't take much to carefully take off most the new top coat without damaging what was underneath. I hit a few areas with a polishing compound and it came up like new so was a huge relief. I'll need to the pop out the headset out to clean up the head tube and get some gloss black to sort the main tubes as these had significant paint removed previously. But for now I'll leave it as is whilst I decide what to do with it.
Essentially this is too good to be a ratbike and I need to decide (again) if it's the right bike for crap weather/lock up etc. Pretty sure I can get this frame back to it's best so if anyone is interested in it drop me a pm.