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Just got an email that my new seat is finished!! 😍

I get that! I may try to learn to respond a junk wheel before I dive into doing it on the Cotton Picker. I'd hate to do something like that with this and have it make me miss the deadline by getting overwhelmed. It's def something I'd like to learn tho! Tonight I putzed around a bit and removed...

To be honest it sounds like a daunting task! Haha I'm willing to try tho. I'm hoping to head to LBS tomorrow to inquire about cost of servicing the wheels. Ive cleaned worse with spokes still on however I had access to quick glow and as of now it's unobtainable.

Finished reddin' up the garage today and got many of the pieces I need to get polished laid out. Got the nee bench polisher set up and running and it is much better than the faulty one I purchased earlier in the week. I tried to polish the bottoms of sissy bar on it, but the one side is a bit...

I did examine my Speedo drive gear and took some pics of it to share "before" images of the wheels before I get them sent to bike shop to be serviced and then polished once home. Although I really want a true Stingray Speedo, I am probably going to go with a Schwinn Approved style of one for...

Been a busy week so I haven't made much progress. I had picked up a 6" bench top buffer from Harbor Freight thinking I'd be able to polish a lot of the chrome parts faster, but upon bringing it home and setting it up, it began making bearing noise when I would use the left hand wheel, so I had...

With it having a tear I'm just going to set it aside and send a different seat out to have a new repro made but if it wasn't torn I'd def go this route!

Will do about making a stop by Harbor Freight,Mike. Sounds like a good investment I need to make. Figured out my seat situation today. I bought a nice 99-00 reproduction Stingray seat off a private seller today and am going to install it on my July 69 coaster Stingray Deluxe as that original...

Today I pulled all the parts I had soaking out of the evaporust and I am most impressed with my Pedals as I scrubbed them down with a toothbrush in dial dish soap/water mix and aside from the end caps needing polished they look absolutely like new! I also ordered an NOS front tire on eBay, and...

I agree on the cost factor and will hold out until I find another seat needing redone for as cheap as possible. With mine having the 1" tear and worn ink I feel is going to take away from the end result of what I am trying to accomplish. With that said, seeing what some are listed for With...

Sure that'd be fine. I'll inbox you with my # so if you find something you can get ahold of me. I'm not looking to spend a ton since to have one done would be $180. I've had Joe do me seat for a Fastback I cleaned up and it was truly top notch.

Didn't do a whole lot today since it was a busy 24 hrs.... removed the head badge as mentioned above, did some quick polishing to see how much work around the headbadge is going to be to get as close to the original unweathered paint beneath the badge will be. I'm looking for some input on my...

I didnt realize they were tiny flatheads until your post so thank you for this info!! I thankfully found a small enough screwdriver to remove the badge and that's about all I did today due to other commitments. But it now gives me something else to polish and also gives the items in Evaporust...

Here's some pics from tonight of attempts to clean and shine up paint while most parts are soaking. I'm looking forward to once everything is back together to compare the real before and after shine because although I can tell in person that it is shining up, I don't feel the pics and my...

Additional parts "before" as being removed.

Previous photos show "before" conditions of parts as they're being removed. The fork, springer, and Fenders were pictured after coming out of Evaporust soaking. I did do some hand polishing of front fender prior to it soaking. I'm a little disappointed that the one side of fork and the springer...

I'm going to keep this in mind and try down the road as for now I just ordered "NOS" Grips on ebay since I already ordered brake lever covers so now they'll definitely match and not contrast at all if I couldn't get the whiteness I anticipated from letting them soak in sun.

It's neat to see you doing this project with your daughter. My oldest daughter is much younger than yours, but she's been spending more time with me in the garage this last year including while I tore apart and brought a Screamer back to life and now again with my Cotton Picker. It's definitely...

Reading thru your progress so far is fascinating, so much engineering creativity going on here... I am really liking the dual rear brake working off one Lever, that's how they definitely should've been made on a Screamer!