Old 05-29-13 | 01:43 PM
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Treating very small amounts of surface rust?

A frame I'd bought on eBay just arrived. As expected from the pictures, the paint is a bit banged up, but there doesn't really appear to be much in the way of rust (hooray for chroming under paint) and thick paint. Once I get it home and have a chance, I'll be hitting the interior with framesaver just to make sure. The one place that I did find rust was on the inside of the race number tab (is there an official name for this thingy?). Is there a good way to treat this? Seems silly to make an oxalic acid bath for this tiny circle that's all orange, but I don't want to let it get any bigger. Do I just try and use steel wool or something to get the rust off and then hit the area with a little bit of touch up paint?

Also, how visible/feelable should the helical ridges of SLX be? The frame should be SLX and the decal says it is, but I didn't see any ridges inside the head tube or top of the seat tube just looking quickly. I highly doubt that it's a fake/repaint, so I was just wondering if the rifling is more subtle than I was expecting and I should look more closely.
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