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Old 11-24-10 | 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Sixty Fiver
Post pictures or we will come and hurt you.



You should know better than this.
I do know better than this, but I'm pretty sure my cheap camera and my poor photographic skills can't capture it.

OK, I'll try. Please stand by.

Maybe they use something poison to get this finish. I'm amazed. Lead, maybe?

The reason I get this idea, is that John S Allen once told me that Sturmey Archer used to use cyanide hardening in its hubs but had to halt the practice because of the toxin.
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