Friday, April 9, 2010

Restoration: Brake Levers

Down below I wrote that I "definitely need to replace the brake levers" because "they are quite unsightly from wear and damage." So, walking to the store and thinking about the tedious difficulty of finding new, good-looking brake levers that (this is the hard part) are correctly compatible with caliper-style brakes (most modern levers are for V-brakes or disc brakes), it occurred to me: what if I stripped and polished the old levers?

Two hours of fussy work with paint remover, wire brush and Mother's Aluminum Polish produced an answer.

They look fahhh-bulous!

So that's one thing off the list.

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