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Well as the title says, my dremel has been working overtime.

now have near mirror finish to my old stock clutch ' brake levers current ones chrome all flaked off,

'mirrors look awesome,

Been looking for reasonably priced accessories to replace some old plastic chrome parts that are damaged, anyone got recommendations as struggling to find parts.

Might struggle with these

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thanks

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I'd try fettling them corroded areas with the wirewheel/dremmel. Then try to match the paint up up, I recall hammerite do a very similar grey/silver in a small pot. Once dry, wipe them down with a acf50 rag.

If its chrome, buy a small tin of the spray chrome finish, spray a little into the lid, then brush it onto the areas reqd. Then same again, acf50 rag

Dont get it on the brakes or disc/s

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its the laquer that had failed and corrosion has got underneath. would need to use wet and dry paper before polishing

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Thanks for the advice, seen some YouTube clips on totally removing the lacquer and going bare metal polished. Like the sound of that lol

any ideas where I can get spares like the one below,

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Not familiar with this bike, but it looks like the part number is 5KS221100100 , but this is the entire rear arm - which I assume includes the plastic covering. (£600) As I have seen a few times with new OEM parts it may be hard to get this piece on its own. Might be worth looking on ebay or somewhere similar for used parts.

(Unless it is not an OEM part?)

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On 1/17/2016 at 0:07 PM, Phil72 said:

Well as the title says, my dremel has been working overtime.

'mirrors look awesome,

 

thanks

Yea, you can see your face in them  ;)

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you can get those plastikits and they will fill the ruts.

 

The stuff is really good as I have made brackets out of it

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3 hours ago, drewpy said:

you can get those plastikits and they will fill the ruts.

 

The stuff is really good as I have made brackets out of it

That would be cheaper than a new chrome part thanks

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