{"id":175,"date":"2010-05-24T21:27:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T18:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auhopu.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2014-12-12T15:31:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T13:31:16","slug":"raleigh-rebuild-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/raleigh-rebuild-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh Rebuild (Part III)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that 40 years ago they used to use real steel, not recycled soda cans. All traces of surface rust have disappeared. I used an angle grinder with a flexipad and fine grits for the tubes. The lugs were sanded manually.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, it would have been much easier (and tons quicker) if I had it sandblasted. Though, I did not know anyone who has experience in sandblasting bike frames and doing it safely with fine mixes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"http:\/\/img.auhopu.com\/blog\/20100524_raleigh-rebuid-part-iii_01.jpg\" alt=\"raleigh rebuild part iii\" title=\"20100524_raleigh-rebuid-part-iii_01\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-174\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that 40 years ago they used to use real steel, not recycled soda cans. All traces of surface rust have disappeared. I used an angle grinder with a flexipad and fine grits for the tubes. The lugs were sanded manually. In retrospect, it would have been much easier (and tons quicker) if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,24,25,30,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}