Italian project: F.Moser Lo Sceriffo - San Cristobal-ish - exact model still unknown (Columbus Aelle)

Wow they look new :)

Trying to clean the glue from the handlebar :

Tried WD40, Ecover Multi-Use, Oven cleaner (Cif) and Ecover cream cleaner...nothing moved a single particle off the handlebar.
Is acetone the only way ?

Apperently white spirit works.

Shall give it a try. The Acetone-free nail polish remover also didn't work

That's because it's acetone free :(

Careful with the oven cleaner: it eats anodising :(

has it worked?

I know that it's Acetone-free :) I tried hoping they'd put something similar. They didn't.

I stopped using the oven one right away as it was leaving a white patina on the handlebars indeed.

Haven't tried the white spirit, need to buy it first.

What does it taste like? :/

Like what it says on the tin :p

Yumsk!

Any particular reason you don't want to use acetone? it'd almost certainly do the job and only costs a couple of quid if you ask for it behind the counter at boots.

No one, just I don't have it :)
Yesterday I went to Halfords and got a bottle of White Spirit, will try that tonight.

When a site reports tubing weights, what do they refer to?
Frame alone, no forks I suppose? What size usually ?

Anyway, I weighted mine (57cm) and it comes at 2095g whilst this site says Aelle is 2300g:

http://astrocycloalpine.weebly.com/columbus-steel-tubesets.html

The fork alone is 722g

The Columbus Catalogue from the 80s states that a full Aelle frameset should weight around 2345g.

mmm

Thanks @Vince :)

Lovely Gipiemme Dual Sprint hubs and double butted spoke sets:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/anidel/15475955498/in/set-72157646491197974

Did the white spirit work

haven't tried yet and didn't manage to grab the seatpost for you. tomorrow morning, sorry

White Spirit didn't work, so I gave up with the handlebars for now.
Turned my attentions to nipples and spoke that @Vince sold me.

Left the nipples and the pieces from the skewers (which I dismantled) soaking in a bit of Mucoff for a while and then cleaned them with a rag.

They came out clean.

A set of spoke was clean enough, but I still went thru them one by one and cleaned them with a rag full of mucoff. The other set is not dirty, but lost its shine.
Idea on how to recover it?
They are stainless stell.

Just build my first wheel. Of course needs truing, but I'll let the LBS do that for me for now.
I hope I did it correctly :-D

(mostly I hope I didn't use the rear wheel spokes on the front one :/ some do look longer than the others...)

Pink Benotto is pink:

(just delivered from the USA)

As soon as the brake levers are clean and ready (handlebars and stem are), I'll wrap both colors (one color per side) and we'll see.

If I go for pink on the Moser, I might use the white on the Holdsworth.

Glad to hear the spokes & nipples came out well, saves you a few pennies.

One set did, the second is still black (on one side only) and can't figure out how (and if) I can clean it up :)

Issue is your spokes and hubs were laced to shallow rims, @Vince. I thought mine were shallow too, but it seems they are not. They should be still fine, but either I put the rear spokes on the front or they're too long as some spokes were very tight and some were quite loose.
It could be they'll get to the right tension and position once trued.

I recall you told me it was easy to spot rear from front spokes, what was it?

The rear spoke were dirtier than the front spokes due to rear drivetrain grease, that's why they were easy to spot... Now you have cleaned them, no idea...

Unfortunately I do not have photos of how the wheels were laced (2x or 3x) and I don't know much about building wheels.

No the rear ones are still dirty. They have one side pitch black :) so I used the right ones on the right hub. Cool.

I'm lacing them 3x. All righty, at home I'll double check I did it correctly and will follow Sheldon's advice on giving them a bit of truing myself. Otherwise I'll go to a LBS.

I'm considering what to do with the rear (black on one side) ones...if I can't clean them I might go for new ones.