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And finally (for the moment) the Swinnerton:
I was planning on freshening it up by replacing the bar tape, perished tyres and tubes, tired saddle, and cleaning everything else - if only it was that easy. The RH pedal was fully seized in so I had to get new cranks... and they didn't work with the BB axle length so that was replaced too. I didn't want to run the old chain on the new cranks so it got a new chain and cassette. I recabled the brakes whilst changing the bar tape, and switched the STX RC rear mech for an LX from the parts bin that was in better condition.
I had planned to fit a modern shape bar (a Deda Piega) until I found out that the stem clamp was too wide to go round the curved part of the bar. Similarly the pads of the mini v brakes caught on the fork blades so I kept the XT canti brakes.
So out of all three projects this gave me the most headaches. I think that it came out well though.