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A good start

So the weekend started with a trip to Halfords to collect my order of 'Rattle Cans.'  A white primer, white gloss and lacquer, plus some panel wipes for cleaning the surfaces before painting.

Items collected (social distancing observed), I returned home and started to sand off the paint from the forks.  I was going to use some 'Nitromors' paint stripper,  but what I had in the garage had rusted in the tin and a test patch did't do the job.  After an hour of sanding they were ready for priming.  Given this was the first time I had done spray painting, I was pleased with the outcome...
I also took apart the bottom bracket as this was ceased up, I noticed this when the frame arrived earlier in the week, so I had ordered up a claw spanner and the HCW-11 Park Tool for its removal.  The axle will need replacing as well as the bearings, so am sourcing those from Firecloud Cycles I hope...
On Sunday I started to play around with the handlebars, I took the original ones, flipped them over and cut them down, a bit of polish and they look really good.  I then spent 2 hours sanding off the paint from the main tubes, will leave the joints for next week end...

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