Stopping Rust on a Secondhand Bicycle

Story and photos taken from a letter by Anita Whitehead
 

Some of the rust on the bike

 My daughter is now 7 years old and I wanted to buy her a bigger bike so that she could learn to ride without stabilisers. Not having much money and also not sure how my daughter would take to cycling I looked for something about £20.00. You can see what I got for the price in the picture

I have enclosed some photos of the bike I bought and as I have a bottle of Fertan bought from you for removing rust from some garden furniture, I decided to try to remove rust on the bike and improve its looks for as little as possible.

 

 
 

 

Close up of the rust on the peddle arm
 

 

Fertan sprayed and smoothed over the rust with a brush
 

 

Included the rusty nut and rusty "C" ring
 

 

Thought you would like this one with the spray bottle
 

This is 4 hours later but the sun had dried the Fertan and so I dampened it with a water spray

  

 

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This is the finished pedal after leaving it overnight and rinsing off.

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