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I've now got all of the paint off the frame (as ever the last few bits took the longest time to do) and I've stripped the paint off the forks. The paint came off really easily off the forks, presumably because it doesn't adhere all that well to the chrome underneath. The chrome underneath the paint is immaculate, as you'd expect, while the rest of it was pretty poor. I've spent the best part of an evening with full-fat Coke, aluminium foil and Alusol getting the chrome looking better, and here it is:
In order to get the frame ready for painting, I've also done something I've been meaning to do for a while, which is to add some bottle cage bosses. My brazing's not really up to the job, and I haven't got the cylinders for my oxy-acetylene set yet, so I resorted to rivnuts. They should do the job - they do on plenty of aluminium and carbon frames.
So, rivnuts fitted - these are the ones on the seat tube:
and a test fit of the bottle cages:
Next stop the spray booth, for some etch primer.