Cycle Repairing and Adjusting
With a Chapter on building a Bicycle from a Set of Parts

CHAPTER IV Cycle Enamelling and Plating This chapter will give information on taking down a machine for re-enamelling and plating, a job which any amateur can tackle, and one for which very few tools will be required beyond the ordinary tools which every cyclist generally possesses. Moreover, it is a job on which a considerable saving in expenditure is made over the usual practice of delivering the complete machine to the cycle agent to deal with. In large towns, now, there are always firms that do enamelling and plating for the trade, and who will under- take the work for a customer who is not in the trade, pro- vided he prepares the parts properly for them. Although not charging the regular trade price, they do the work for much less than would be the case in the ordinary way. The amateur will have the satisfaction that the work has been thoroughly prepared so as to give the best and most lasting results. Platers must properly prepare the work before they can plate it ; but enamel can be applied over almost any surface, but the poorer the surface the poorer will be the final result. Rusting Under Enamel.—Doubtless the cyclist has often observed the way cycle frames rust under the enamel and gradually blister and throw the enamel off, and has been at a loss to understand the reason of it. The trouble 62