This applies to any ally bit on a bike, if the bit is laquered you have to use paint stripper to get the laquer off first. Bit flat bits can be cleaned with Loyblox but that makes yer arm ache.
Tips/Techniques - Cleanin' Shitty Ally |
Sometimes ye buy a bike that's been lyin' in a shed or a garage for donkeys, or if ye live in Scotland ye've opened the shed door for 3 seconds and the wind carries in 14 tons of airborne rocksalt particles for which any alloy bit of a bike becomes a huge magnet
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You may
just want to clean the alloy up or prepare it for polishing, either way being one who'll
take any easy effective way to get to the pub quicker I was shown this method. This applies to any ally bit on a bike, if the bit is laquered you have to use paint stripper to get the laquer off first. Bit flat bits can be cleaned with Loyblox but that makes yer arm ache. |
You need to go to yer local Chemist Shop and get a box of Citric Acid then go to Tescos or a DIY shop and get soda crystals, (ask yer mum, I think they put it in the washin' machine)
Put the parts into a wash basin and wash with water, emapty the basin of water, sprinkle the citric acid powder over the parts then cover them with soda crystals. The sprinkle water over the soda crystals and watch the fun, fizz, splutter, hiss, bubble, leave it for 5 minutes then wash off. The mixture should have lifted all the fuzz, fur and any small rodents which previously ailed the alloy surface.
Once dry you can now polish to you hearts content, believe me, this was used on an old 550 katana wot had rotted in a shed for 3 years, it made the job much much quicker.
Credit for this tip goes to my gorgeous missus whose mum uses this method to get the hard carbon shit off her chip pans.