Re: [CR]Campy track-bmx crankset question

(Example: Framebuilding:Paint)

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:35:48 -0800 (PST)
From: "jeffrey piwonka" <jmpiwonka@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Campy track-bmx crankset question
To: Tom Dalton <tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com>, x76911s@socal.rr.com, Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, oroboyz@aol.com
In-Reply-To: <527861.49856.qm@web55906.mail.re3.yahoo.com>


if you do the oven cleaner trick, you will most likely want to polish the part. i think without polishing you will have a very dull, almost corroded look. it's real easy once you get the clear off but the part won't look original. i reserve removing clear and polishing for parts that have bad scratches in the clear. this one is polished. http://flickr.com/photos/73753172@N00/2099072893/

Jeff Piwonka
Austin, Texas, usa


--- Tom Dalton wrote:


> John Waner wrote:
> >From what I have been told it is very easy to
> remove the anodizing with oven cleaner.
>
> John,
> I've heard this too, though I'll add that I've
> also heard you need to be careful if you want to
> remove the anodizing while leaving the metal
> unharmed. In any case, keep in mind that a
> color-anodized part with the anodizing removed is
> not the same as a clear/silver/pearl anodized part
> with the finish intact. All but the earliest silver
> Campy cranks were anodized. Without anodizing they
> will corrode.
>
> Dale Brown wrote:
>
> Gold, red, blue, green and ?
>
> The 1982 catalog lists small and large flange hubs
> and cranksets in gold, blue, and silver, and pedals
> in gold, blue and black. Somehow red seems
> familiar, however, but not green.
>
> In any case, the BMX part that I'd really like to
> own would be the pedal, in black. They'd be stealth
> cool on my brakeless freestyle fixie.... well, no,
> but they'd be cool on a single speed grocery bike,
> that's for sure. The interesting thing about the
> BMX pedal is that the rivets appear not to be
> symmetrical around the centerline of the cage. I
> think Campy must have used the normal Record/SL/SR
> body, which is not symmetrical. Suntour, in
> contrast, made a BMX pedal that had a unique body,
> even though mechanically similar to the Superbe and
> later XC offerings. In fact, I think the Suntour
> BMX pedal predates all the similar pedals from
> Suntour and was based on an American pedal, perhaps
> the Rochester brand... or Weyless...and those may
> have started as road pedals, so it all comes full
> circle.
>
> Tom Dalton
>
>
>
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