DYNA-TECH DIABLO

[Andy Mann]

Hi all, my new project arrived yesterday 1994 Raleigh Dynatech Diablo AL.(frame and fork)
Bonded titanium/cromo frame and U.G.L.I fork.
been looking for one for ages always aspired to own one when i could only afford an mtrax,got
one now so on with the show
won it for £50 on ebay, this is a paintwork restoration project the laquer has badly peeled on the exposed titanium tubes and the aluminium lugs and fork crown have oxidised under the paint causing it to bubble up. im stripping the downtube and toptube paint with stripper being carefull to avoid the bonded lugs i will then polish these and im going to sand back the rear triangle and fork crown,prep and repaint both.then hopefully get some new seatube decals from Gil.
im thinking of building up with '94 deore lx 7spd, or i do have 90% of a 97 8spd stx rc group which is in great condition.

heres a few starter pics and i will add more as i go
cheers
andy

 

[xxnick1975]

Good commitment

 

[ultrazenith]

Signing up for updates. I love Dynatechs and I'm interested to see how the paint restoration goes.

 

[mk one]

Looking forward to the restoration

 

[cherrybomb]

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Think I'll pull up a chair too.

 

[Andy Mann]

DYNATECH

evening all, thanks for the interest guys. anyway been busy on this all weekend locked away in the shed so far ive stripped the corroded parts down to bare and rust treated, 1200g wet & dry rest of frame to give a good paint key and primed. next day i flatted back the primer and followed this up with two cans of fords finest panther black. and the next day i applied the first coat of lacquer.
i still need to sort decals for the seat tube and then topcoat lacquer.
also forgot to mention the fun i had polishing the two titanium tubes. once i peeled all the flaking clear coat i had to strip the paint from the ends of the tubes and then set about polishing.
had to rub back with 2 then 3000 g w&d paper the attack it with autosol, not looking to bad but forgot to take pics of this before i masked up :facepalm:
tell me what you think of the UGLIs, something different? i had to strip the crown due to oxidisation but couldnt help myself with the wet and dry and autosol. still might paint them yet :?
anyway enough twoddle heres the pics so far..

andy

 

[Gerard]

Nice job so far.

 

[xxnick1975]

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Absolutely stunning work, well done!

 

[cherrybomb]

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How did the painting go? It's not been very warm recently.

 

[mk one]

Looking good, have you done that before then!?

Like the idea with the forks, might look ok once on the bike and match the ti tubes.