Recent content by Agent Orange

Cheers for info and more than I thought to be honest. Frame is in bloody good condition. I do tend to look after my kit. Helps it's probably seen less than 20 miles, all on road, in the last years! :) Give's me food for thought as my plan was to move as many of the parts over to a Santa Cruz...

I suspect if you have zero oxidisation on the frame the finish will be fine. You will only know this once the frame has been stripped. Depending on the quality of the finish you want and the extent of any oxidisation based on my experience I wouldn't recommend you get them to deal with it...

Solent Powder Finishers. They have a good reputation but I'm so/so based on the work they did for me. Put it this way I wouldn't use them again and I have had far better results from powder coating in the past from other companies. Unfortunately those companies no longer exist...

Any ideas what my 1997 P7 is worth? I think it's a 17" but not sure. I should have the original angry Orange seat in a box though I don't recall seeing the original bars recently. I've had it from new and whilst I used it a fair bit in the first year or so hardly at all since. I never could get...

Makes a bit of sense now thanks. They did try to remove it but were cautious of blasting it too much. I wish they'd have made my options clearer as in hindsight it looks like I could have take the frame after they'd stripped it and with a lot of elbow grease smoothed it down manually. Still it...

Not easy to see on the photos but try these. We suspect the original oxidisation came from a scratch in the down tube that cut through the original paint. Possibly because the frame wasn't absolutely clean when original painted at the factory the moisture managed to get under the silver base...

:) Heh I don't mind the extra cost to strip it back to bare metal and start again as the annoyance I'd get looking at it each time would be worse. I guess my question was more can I smooth it right down? I assumed there would be nothing wrong with smoothing the oxidisation down but given the...

Hi Hoping someone can help with alu frame restoration advice. Recently took a 7005 alu MTB frame to a powder coaters in Eastleigh. The frame was originally finished with a translucent paint over a silver/chrome effect base. Once stripped it appears the aluminium had oxidised under the silver...