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@Wingedangel
downlo, where do you live?
If you want you can pop round to mine and I will give you the frame rescue 101 course.
Basically you attack any bits that are ok with a dremel and a tiny wire brush, worse bits with a battery drill and a slighly bigger wire brush, treat them with rust killer or rust neutralising paint and then you touch them in with yellow filler primer, nib them back and touch them in..with red paints to darken you use a little blue, and to lighten a little orange...
when they have dried the paint might have sunk so you ad more paint and eventually it will be proud, leave it for a week or two to harden and then cut them back with 800 paper and then t cut them in...
always t cut the frame first...though don't use silicon polish...as it can fish eye the paint.
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sorry to hijack the thread...
though it is staying top of the pile this way...someone buy this amazing frame!!!!**
halfords do good car paint which is maybe £5 a tin...it's durable and hard wearing and they have a good range of shades,and they will accept lacquer, whatever you do don't use graf paint(ie molotov or montana, they are wall specific and don't harden properly and you can't over paint and they go mental if you then add 'real' paint, they pickle to fuck)...anyway...you then get whatever is closest to your bike... and then away you go...use cheap make up brushes to touch in they are cheap enough to throw away though good enough to hold there bristles.