Today I had a go at cleaning up the ferrule around the handlebars where they clamp into the old quill style stem. It was painted white and I'd scratched it when I did the 'Chop n Flop'.
I started with a strip of glass paper, but that was too slow - so I got out the electric sander. That cleaned it up a treat. Still I'll have to be careful when I finally position the bars because it's so easy to scratch them with the stem clamp.
Problem is, it now highlights how ugly the scratched stem is, so I should probably replace that with a new alloy stem. I'll check in my LBS or I saw one on eBay for $9.95 plus $6 postage.
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