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Best way to clean up this handlebar

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  • 22-05-2020 3:24pm
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    jasonb
    Registered Users Posts: 3,329 ✭✭✭


    Hi there,

    Looking to get this handlebar looking as good as new. Any suggestions? Cleaning it down, respraying it, just getting a new one?

    Thanks in advance...


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    Cetyl Palmitate
    Registered Users Posts: 571 ✭✭✭Cetyl Palmitate


    jasonb wrote: »
    Hi there,

    Looking to get this handlebar looking as good as new. Any suggestions? Cleaning it down, respraying it, just getting a new one?

    Thanks in advance...

    Ball of tinfoil usually works well


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    cletus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,997 ✭✭✭cletus


    Wet the tin foil when it's balled up. If it's only surface rust, it'll lift it, if the rust is gone through the chrome to the metal underneath, the rust will lift, but it won't shine up


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    cletus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,997 ✭✭✭cletus


    Looking more closely at the picture, the chrome looks to have lifted, and it's flaking in spots.

    The tin foil will take the rust, but the surface is likely to look blackened where the rust was. The handlebars will be fine to use, but they won't be shiny.


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    jasonb
    Registered Users Posts: 3,329 ✭✭✭jasonb


    Thanks for your replies, I'll give the wet tinfoil a go and see what happens...


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