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I've been stripping and cleaning the Ron Cooper track that @pharoahsanders kindly sold me last year. I washed the frame, used paint restorer judiciously, then went for a layer of polish and three layers of carnauba. The paint looked good before. Now it shines that little bit more in the sun, and the brittle transfers look to have benefited from the treatment. Here are some before and after photos.
Next to rebuild it with some more appropriate bars and stem.
Most framebuilders file back the seat tube rather than the down tube, where the two meet at the BB shell. The theory is that the down tube takes the most stress between the pedals and front end, so they take material from the seat tube instead. Ron has filed the down tube on this one, just like the two other Coopers I've looked at the insides of.
Ron was an acknowledged master craftsman and learned his trade alongside plenty of excellent Gillott framebuilders. I wonder if he always treated his BBs like this and, if so, why.
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