Broken Rusty Oldtimer Scooter - Restoration

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In this video I'm going to restore a very rusty and broken scooter from the 1970s. I've bought this scooter almost two years ago at an online auction for $40. I really liked the look of it, especially the design of the aluminium casted wheels. I knew this one would be a very challenging project because of multible reasons. I knew I need to replace the tires and handles, but I had no idea back then how to make them. It took a lot of research in terms of resin and rubber casting and also the help of my friend @misterpatina , which has organized the polyurethane rubber for me. It was pretty difficult to get the right hardness in the right color. There was also the rear fender missing, which required metal shaping to make a new one. I've never done that before, but after a successful test piece with aluminium I was optimistic to get it done and it worked out absolutely perfect. One more thing that scared me was the chrome plating of the handlebar. I knew I can't chrome plate myself, as I heard it's super toxic. Then the idea of nickel plating came to my mind, it has a slightly different color than chrome. It has kind of a yellowish goldish touch. After doing some test pieces, I knew this was the way to go. To get an overall uniform look and also rust protection I decided to polish and nickel plate all steel parts. This project was the by far the most difficult one to restore. It required so many new techniques, that's why it took me 50 days in the workshop to complete. I really put my heart into this little scooter and in my opinion it turned out absolutely fantastic. The combination of the grey and blue paint together with all the shiny nickel plated parts and the new casted creme white tires and handles come together very nice. I'm very happy how it turned out. I hope you like my work and the video. Huge thank you to all of my Patreon supporters and specially to: Tonya M Broerman Zack Thompson Adel AlSaffar afreeflyingsoul Yale Baker Gregory Alex McGeorge Alistair Moor Amar.k Anthony Eufemio Bendurion Chris walter David Barker Greenstitute HouziMoto Josh Ledford Josh Wasserman Joshua Bentley Lambda GPU Workstations Louie Carboni Matt Boothman Mellissa Marcus Monte Gibbs Nick Houston Paul Mampilly Pong Lenis potokslow Thomas & Jenni Wendel Tyler Carruth Vickie Bligh Vince Valenti Xavier Carbel Yuri Zapuchlak Ajna Alex Breton Allen Frank Amanda Taylor, Esq Andreas Mimra Andrew Egerton Andrew Phillips Anthony Adams Arni Bjorgvinsson audi4444player Blake T Brian Hoerl Cam Benfield Chad Bryant Chris Simondet Dave Hardware frankie deSantis Grant Daniel Grok Senften Haley McFadden Harper Kim Hunter R. Jack Scott Jason Koi Jeremy Cole justin f. Kelly Imgrund Ken Rosso Kurt Gazow Marc Cerisier Mellissa McConnell Michael Bier Mike Donaldson Nick Cannon Omar Domínguez Pasacal Schmikal Regis Vincent Rev. Gina Pond Sam Mainville Scott Marshall Sergei Shvartsman Stefan Halter Subramaniam Venkitaraman Suiros Svenja Kuckla Trevor Kam Tucker Ifft 웅록 윤 My camera: Panasonic HC-VX11 I payed a lot of attention on the lighting when filming this video and also the quality of the sound to create an ASMR style video. If you have any questions about the process, machines i'm using or other stuff, just ask me in the comments. I read them all and i try to reply as soon as possible. Sorry for my bad english, it's not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english. Subscribe for more of my content. I'm uploading videos about mechanical stuff, as new creations and buildings and also restorations. Thank you for watching :-) „I make a new one“ T-Shirts: https://teespring.com/stores/my-mechanics My Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/mymechanics My Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4EQCwfH54ieNPswtXh5K0w My Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/mymechanics