Topic: Polished switches

[apex_seeking]

I'd rather not tear into it and loose half the springs that jump out not expecting then to be there.

time to take off the pink panties and put on blue ones! ha

 come on man, your gonna have to mess with it eventually, may as well do it now and then you know its been refurbished.

I actually polished it with it still on the bike. Thought it would be easier than it turned out to be. If I had it all to do over again, I would tear that thing apart with reckless abandon.

Anybody got any ideas about those faded looking red kill switch thumb-buttons? The casings look so nice polished, the old dirty buttons take away from all that work.

I painted mine (black...I know it's not model correct but I didn't have red) with model paint. It was so weathered that it took about 4 or 5 coats to finally hold a sheen. The contrast makes the mediocre polish job look not so mediocre.

[Really?]

I have not tried but i wonder if peanut oil will clean some of that up.  It seems to work on the airbox for some folks.

[apex_seeking]

OK, here are some shots. The levers still need a little TLC but I'm sorta sanded out and I just got the new allens for the MC and they look a lot better than the hex heads that were there before.

[Stev-o]

Looks great!