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fuel cap surround 9 years 7 months ago #149810

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stripped paint of and polished up looks a lot better
not perfect but lot cheaper than buying one :woohoo:
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fuel cap surround 9 years 7 months ago #149812

Did the same with mine but you will need to give it a couple of coats of polyurethane or varnish as the surface will oxidize within a week or so.

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Re:fuel cap surround 9 years 7 months ago #149816

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Na will just autosol it each week

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Re:fuel cap surround 9 years 7 months ago #149823

Hard work but it looks good!
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Re:fuel cap surround 9 years 7 months ago #149827

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Thanx David took a while but looks so much better

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fuel cap surround 9 years 7 months ago #149828

Dazz wrote: wrote:
stripped paint of and polished up


It's looking very good in my opinion. Others will probably want to know how you did that? :)

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fuel cap surround 9 years 7 months ago #149829

OTHERS ;)
Yes I was looking at mine to day it is in need of some TLC
BILSTIEN DAMPERS, 4-2-1 MANIFOLD, HEAD WORK BY SABRE.

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Re:fuel cap surround 9 years 7 months ago #149833

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I took paint of with p240 sandpaper then i rubbed it with wet n dry p400 p600 p800 n then p1200 takes a while lol then polished up using autosol

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Re:fuel cap surround 9 years 7 months ago #149835

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Might do gear stick surround next if can work out how it comes out lol

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fuel cap surround 9 years 7 months ago #149836

I polished Meg's petrol surround quite a while ago now - definitely needs a coat of clear acrylic as it tarnishes and then because the tarnish gets inside the 'allen bolt' area it looks manky - so I re-polished it before fitting it to Felix and gave it a coat.

I also polished the gear surround and scratched gear knob few months back:

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fuel cap surround 9 years 7 months ago #149837

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wont be putting lacquer on it as through time it will peel unless u use the proper grade of lacquer which is quite expensive
i will just keep it polished up with autosol each week

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fuel cap surround 9 years 7 months ago #150159

Hi , i did the same with mine then i put varnish on it ,and it still looks shinney 6 months on with know flacking , plus its a lot cheaper than buying one.

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