REFURBING STANCHIONS/fork legs

IF, like me, you ride through winter this will certainly happen:

Thanks to the upcoming MOT and a blown forkseal, it was time to tackle the job. Yamaha forksliders have a very specific texture, as if they had been sanded on a lathe. I stopped short of reproducing that, but as you’ll see it gets quite close.

This is after beadblasting with glass beads. You first have to clean the part of all dirt and grease.

And this after cleaning the beadblasted parts undr running water and using a steelwool pad. I use one designed for crockery and pots, because it’s got soap integrated. I did only one run with the pad, and by the look of things if you were to use something harsher/harder after you’ll arrive at the original polished-but-not-shiny-with-marks-look.
Don’t forget to wash the part in Gunks with thin spiral brushes in all the holes! Otherwise you’ll hear the familiar crunch of glass beads when you tighten your bolts…

Not bad for only a half-hour job…and it could be even better! I just didn’t have the time to play with it any longer.