Recent content by ourmanflint

Re: How much for these shipped to Londinium? Cheers

Would also be happy with an Eddy Merckx fork which was probably made by De Rosa anyway.

Very very nice. Is that colour an official De Rosa one? Just about to start my '73 rebuild

very nice indeed

nice colourway!

Excellent. I wouldn't mind the levers, they definitely look the part Paypal OK?

I used to work in the paint industry in the 1980's and the only thing that changed was the use of solvents, lacquer used to be fast drying using toluene or Methyl Ethyl Ketone, I think both of those fell out of use because of health worries, but the lacquer itself, the resin, is still the same...

They would have used an acrylic lacquer I would have thought. Modern coatings are better, but might need a bonding coat of something between the chrome and coloured tint

Re: Interesting idea. Never thought of that

I'm going to spot restore all the scratches using liquid mask and tinted clearcoat. Hopefully I'll find someone to supply me a color matched acrylic lacquer that I can apply using a small airbrush. When that's done, I'll look at re-chroming the large area on top tube if possible, I imagine that...

1981 Frame

Just the info I needed, many thanks indeed!! ;D

Yeah, lots of UV damage on top tube and fork fronts, colour elsewhere is pretty good though. Any idea what type of lacquer they would have used circa 1981?

Had a good look at the frame over the weekend, and it's a beauty!! Needs some restoration though, but this will be done tastefully, so spot retouching scratches etc with a suitable tinted coating. Lots of pics here https://imgur.com/a/d2iCL

I didn't get it in the end, but there's one on ebay for about £165