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Front forks - Nick Hood - 03-03-14
What is the best way of restoring the fork legs. Rub it down or remove the lacquer with something first ?
Re: Front forks - Mattsplat - 03-03-14
Or use www.mailorderrepairs.co.uk
Very reasonably priced to get your forks refurbed/painted/coated.
No affiliation to me, just a recommendation
Some of his work can be seen on FB.
https://www.facebook.com/MailOrderRepairs
Re: Front forks - Sloth - 04-03-14
I bit of autosol and a lot of elbow grease dude
. 1200grade wet & dry for raised rusted areas but be gentle and you can get away with filling pits with a very small quantity of araldite, wet & dryed smooth with the leg.
Re: Front forks - darrsi - 04-03-14
I used paint stripper, thinners, wet 'n' dry, then silver wheel spray and lacquer from spray cans........did the job job nicely.
Been a while now, still looks fine.
Re: Front forks - stevierst - 04-03-14
If you ride all year round, refurb as the guys above said, then once the paint is fully hardened cover each fork leg in paint protection film.
I used just bog standard fablon sticky back plastic from a stationers, it's worked on every bike I've had, and my bikes work hard all year round. Never had to repaint a set of forks since using it!
Re: Front forks - Deefer666 - 04-03-14
Buy some 2nd hand fork bottoms and take yer time polishing them to a mirror finish and then rebuild the forks with the new bottoms on