Hey there Raymond,
I figured you might want to see the photo so I scanned it in. Unfortunately it spreads across two pages so it's not as nice a scan as it could be (it's an artsy fartsy photo).
Check out the photo here:
http://chainedrevolution.com/
Cheers, Tam "gonna build a poseur Molteni replica myself" Pham Huntington Beach, CA - USA
On 8/30/06, Raymond Dobbins <raydobbins2003@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I dug up two good-quality color pics of Eddy (one a postcard and the other a
> mini-mini poster), as well as the January 2005 edition of Cycle Sport
> America, which has a special Merckx section with lots of great pics. Then I
> grabbed my large magnifying glass, sat under a good light and went to work.
>
> After VERY CLOSE inspection of the photos, I have concluded the following:
>
> - the milling in Eddy's posts were generally painted black
> - the milling in his stems is generally orange or black, but I think orange
> was used more often
> - the 1A stem like the one I have, had both orange and black paint - orange
> in the side millings, and black in the narrower millings near the top of the
> stem (I was lucky to find a couple of pics that show this clearly)
> - and lastly, that yellow was never used to fill in the milling in either
> stem or post (I have no idea why I thought yellow was one of the colors
> used).
>
> So the way I'm going to paint them is black for the post, and orange and
> black for the stem.
>
> Tam, I don't recall ever seeing that photo, sounds interesting.
>
> Ray "Details" Dobbins
> Miami Florida
>
>
> Tam Pham <terminaut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have one photo that shows black for the millings in the stem, seat
> post, and chainrings. Interestingly, the big chainring has heart
> engravings.
>
> -Tam Pham
> Huntington Beach, CA - USA
>
> On 8/29/06, Raymond Dobbins wrote:
> > I finally have a milled NR seat post and a milled 1A stem for my totally
> poseur Merckx Molteni replica project. I want to paint in the milling, but
> I'm not sure what the correct color would be. Is it black, orange, or
> yellow?
> >
> > I wouldn't be surprised if Eddy had different colors on different bikes,
> so I guess more than one color may be correct. In fact, I have a feeling the
> color wasn't always the same for the stem and post - I seem to recall seeing
> photos showing the post filled in black while the stem was filled in orange
> or yellow.
> >
> > All info greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Ray Dobbins
> > Miami Florida
> >
> >
> >
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