Fellas, I'm feeling the post Christmas austerity pinch so bad that I'm going to offer a little polishing service to try & bring in some beer money. £40 will do for two covers clutch & genny (an extra fiver & I'll do the tappet covers & cam cover too), & that includes a basic wire wool strip & polish - three grades of wool, three grades of polish, all elbow grease & no chemicals! I'll even remove any gasket material from the mating faces if applicable. I estimate around a five hour turnaround for both which equates to about £7 an hour plus the wool & compounds. This will eventually shrink when I manage to afford a proper polishing wheel with attachments for flap wheels & other luxury stripping paraphernalia such as a Dremel. Obviously, I'll have to look into postage & stuff but what I'm trying to get a sense of is whether it would be a viable means of gainful employment so I would very much like your comments. I appreciate that a polished look is not for everyone & forty bucks might seem a lot to some of you so help me gauge the meerkat, tell me what you would be prepared to pay - is it too much I'm asking for? Let me know how much you've seen others do it for & any far out methods you've heard of or any pitfalls you've encountered. Ask if there are any other bits you'd like polished such as fork tubes (telescopic brigade), carb bodies, heads (not yet 'cos I don't have the Dremel kit) or even whole frames (you will need to lacquer afterward to prevent rusting).
I'm trying to set up a local exchange engine & mobile repair service with the fast food delivery shops but it has run into teething problems primarily because the bikes that breakdown are either removed by the council or stolen by the local pond life. Mo (the local pizza shop dude), has had two taken in not so many months, one by Islington Council (£250 plus £25 a day storage!!!), & one by the hoodies. However, engine/gearbox repairs will eventually be on the cards but as yet I don't stock parts so any fixes will have to be accompanied with the relevant bits & I assume most of you would prefer to do your own fettling. Possibly, postal costs would also render this prohibitively expensive but the offer is there for anyone prepared to journey to London...
Anyway, please comment! You can take the piss of course
but do try & balance it with some fair & useful input fellas purleeze!
Vaya con Dios!
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) has risen by £5 since late last year alone & we're trying to save up so we can leave the smoke for the south coast. I've had enough, I really have - since they cut my shifts down at work I've been applying for jobs. Out of just under fifty applications I've had one interview & one reply 
guess what it said 
