Tange Switchblade colour?

[InFaasion]

Restoring this fork and stripped it down to bare metal after someone painted the legs in carrot orange. Now next step trying to come close to original paint. From the net I can't tell if it is gloss black or chrome black. Anyone who can help me out? Thanks!

 

[slackboy]

Mine were gloss black

 

[Elev12k]

Mine are black chrome

 

[Dr Dremel]

I guess with the clamped crown there would be fitting problems with paint? I just know them in black chrome or normal (silver) chrome.

@InFaasion: Maybe under the paint there is still the OG finish? Time to get the paint stripper out!

 

[slackboy]

 

[InFaasion]

Already stripped and it was down to bare metal without any old layers. Without any paint the legs are very loose in the crown so my guess is with paint it still fits. Crown is also painted, was originally bare aluminium.

 

[Tootyred]

Mine are gloss black with bare alluminium crown...

 

[Dr Dremel]

You guys with the "black gloss" finish: Is it paint or chrome? Should be evident at the dropouts ...

 

[InFaasion]

I assume it was painted looking at various pictures from original product. Dropouts are worn after inserting the wheel and that’s not the case when anodised. And if anodised I would have seen marks when removing paint from mine.

I ordered gloss black spray, thanks for the help and keep you posted on progress

 

[Dr Dremel]

*Anorak mode on* Anodizing is only possible with aluminium, for the steel blades it´s almost certainly black chrome finish Much harder surface, but it also can wear down.