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Originally Posted by mrvster
great job on the bikes! you even took the wrong parts and put the right ones on it  |
Thanks!
I'd planned on doing an actual restoration on the motorpacing bike, new paint, new chrome,... Way beyond my budget.
It has a bad dent in the back, so I knew it had been crashed. When I was rebuilding it, I had the fork out and thought it was plugged with dirt or maybe a wood dowel. Nope, it had cracked nearly all the way across, been plugged across the crack with a pressed in steel rod that was pinned in place. I really had to look for the pins. Beautiful repair, done whenever it was crashed, probably in the 1930's. I just couldn't restore it after finding that.
I generally don't call them restored, as I don't touch the original paint. I usually go with "reconstructed" since very few of the parts are original.
Now the really old hydraulic jack I did that was basically encased in a ball of dirt when I got it... yeah, that's restored. Amazingly, the original leather seals were still good.