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So, I bought this new in about 1987 and at the time it was a beautiful pearl white with chromovelato gold lacquered headlugs, forks and stays.
Some years later, I gave it to my brother in law who criminally took a rattle can to it and turned it into a 90's flouro monstrostity!
Anyway, I now have it back and am pondering on what to do with it. initially it was just going to get stuck on the turbo trainer (and it might still do that) but I've been picking away at the nasty paint and thinking that maybe I could just strip the paint off and polish up the chrome (it appears to be chromed all over) - but how to get the paint off?
I'm sat here looking at a can of Nitromors.....is that a good idea?
I'm not too bothered about the gold lacquer - I'm not sure there'll be much of that left - but getting it back to chrome and polishing it up might be nice, even if there's a bit of corrosion here and there
Any thoughts??
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