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Scott_Fear
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Made a fair bit of progress on the SSCX build. This is how it looked when i got it:
A total horror show, not heavily used but dirty and unloved.
The stickers had been degraded by the sun light so proved to be a nightmare to remove. Each sticker broke into two layers, the top 'clear' layer with the design on and then a brittle white lower layer which tore apart instead of peeling up nicely.
I tried a hair dryer, but as they were so brittle it didnt make much difference. So now, in possesion of some very sore fingers, I got to about this point...
...and realised that the glue was going to be the next issue, as you probably have guessed, it was all hard and sticky. I got a lot of it off with lots of acetone before I gave up with aching hands again and regretting not being somewhere with better ventelation. I decided to go to my LBS to use their heated enzyme parts washer.
This worked very well and with a liberal application of GT85 to clean it I managed to toally strip back the frame and fork, then bring up a nice finish. I also internally coated all the tubes I could get too with GT85 to give them a bit of rust proofing and then drilled a drain hole in the BB shell. Also cleaned and repacked the headset.
Thankfully most of the paint has been protected by the bastard stickers.
Crap orignal cranks went to recycling heaven and a new GPX BB and some spare 165mm Rival cranks fitted to, I need to do some shuffling of chainrings on other bikes to free up a 110mm black narrow wide to use on this.
Wheels are on my to do list, rims seem fine and they're both true, but the hubs are dirty and will benfit from a full service. That being said @cake said he may have some wheels for me so we'll find out next week. Got home to fine the inline setpost I'd orderd has arrived too.
The chain was so filthy I couldnt tell how worn it was, so I popped it in the dishwasher on the hottest cycle and some how that managed to blue it. Turns out it was just dirty and not that worn at all.
Also found a good chainring to use with the Rotor cranks for the 29er