Re: [CR]Cinelli pictures and story: Beyond Patina - NOW Evapo-Rust

(Example: Production Builders:Pogliaghi)

Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:58:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Cinelli pictures and story: Beyond Patina - NOW Evapo-Rust

I can speak from experience that Evapo-Rust is not a product that can reach into a frame's finish and suck the rust out of the finish. Evapo-Rust won't leave shiny little bits of exposed metal, ready for touch-up primer and touch-up paint. When rust starts in a frame, it reaches into the surrounding paint areas and stains the paint. Evapo-Rust can only minimize the staining - it cann

I attempted to use Evapo-Rust on a rusty 1977 CARLTON Professional Frameset. The frame had great decals, great clearcoat ( a little yellowed, turning the silver finish to light golden ), but there were rust pimples on every square inch of the frame.

Before-and-after pictures, and the whole story of the bike restoration, are here :

http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~gillies/raleigh/international/Carlton77.html

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA