Keep your acetone bexley! It's useful for bike stuff. Like that other poster I have used it for removing silkscreened logos from components, and I think it is also suitable for use as a sticker remover and tubular glue remover.

Does a light go on in the sky when I do something stupid and write about it in a BF thread? That's the only explanation for how often and quickly you've chimed in with good advice for all my threads.

Yea, I wasn't really planning on giving away the acetone, but I do have some kind of obsession with having a house free of solvents that I don't need. I like to be able to eat off my floor (though I don't), so I don't use commercial cleaners for my apt. The bottle of acetone is the only thing close to that.

Er, I'm not counting the oven cleaner that I used purely for aesthetic purposes because that's an unforgivable transgression in my books that I can only ignore.

Haha, sorry for telling you what to do all the time. Hey how did you get the lever out of the plastic hood body? I was looking at my black tektros today and thinking they would look good silver.

Sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean by the plastic hood body. The only plastic part on my cross Tektros' are the cylindrical cable adjusters.

If you want a really smooth/shiny finish, the Tektro's take quite a bit of work. There's pitting throughout under the paint and it took me a lot of 600 and 1000 grit to remove. Well, I didn't get it off the entire lever, but it still looks sharp.

Photo of the results soon. I still have to do the clamp.

In any case, the lever came out by taking out one tiny allen-key screws that holds the pivot pin in, and then popping out the pin.

Fsk. I really should've done both levers. I'm dreading the possible addition of a rear brake in the future (fixed/free hub), when I'll have to do this all over for my right-hand lever.

Ohh I see. I have this kind of tektro lever: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/...nL._AA160_.jpg

Ah, I have this kind.

http://www.christopherbecks.com/pics...oni/brake2.jpg
http://www.christopherbecks.com/pics...oni/brake1.jpg

I just noticed that Soma sells a lever identical to this Tektro but with the choice of silver or black. The Soma is $20 per lever, I think, which is double the Tektro, but it's worth it if you'd otherwise be buying sandpaper and polish just for one job. Luckily, I already had some of both, it's cold as hell outside, and my time is worth ****.

Looks great bexley! Your noni is going to be pretty sweet.