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Onto the wheels.
The old tires were junk. tubes already had a history of patch kits. so the went to the trash.
the rims looked good first glance, but they were orginal and had seen 30000km.
the front seemed have seen some heavy contact, I did my best to try and re tune them into round I got close enough.
the inner rim had rust primarily where the spokes seat are. hit em with the wire wheel and then gave em the rust converter treatment.
Majority of spokes were in ok condition same wire wheel treatment and rust converter...
cleaned brake drum hub assembly and serviced brake shoes, replaced rear with new brake shoes. Paint stripped and polished brake drum covers.
I applied VHT high temp brake caliper satin black paint to the spokes, drum and inner rim.
Installed new 45 rear sprocket and custom touched up the cover and spacer with regency red to tie it into the rest of the bike motif.
Had 1 stuck spoke nut which I ended up heating to red hot with a blow torch then quenching in water to break free the rust bond, learned that trick from Taryl Fixes All YT channel...
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