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08-06-16 | 08:37 PM

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Kevindale

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Bikes: 1980 Koga-Miyata Gentsluxe-S, 1998 Eddy Merckx Corsa 01, 1983 Tommasini Racing, 2012 Gulf Western CAAD10, 1980 Univega Gran Premio

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Originally Posted by iab

Remove the rust and you will have a dull gray, which is better than the brown rust. Most of the chrome is missing from the fork of my Viscontea.

Viscontea 007 by iabisdb, on Flickr

I have also used Caswell's plug and plate kit. It works OK if you do the proper prep.

Plug N' Plate® Copy Chrome Kit - Caswell Inc

Thanks, good photo. Yes, it doesn't look as bad as I thought it would. And I'd never heard of Plug N' Plate. Do you have a photo of the results of using that?

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