I ordered some parts online. I'm getting new tires and wheels, a new axle, new lights, and a few other accessories. I may also get some new hubs, because I just noticed that one of them is cracking. So basically, almost every component of the undercarriage was damaged.
I also stripped a lot of the paint off of the frame. I decided to take the old paint off, because there were some flaky rusty spots, which is no good to paint over. I used chemical paint stripper and then naval jelly (which has phosphoric acid to dissolve the rust ... interestingly, an ingredient in Coca Cola). Maybe hiring someone to sandblast the frame would have made more sense, because this is a lot of work with nasty chemicals. I couldn't get all the paint off, but most of it. I'm almost ready to prime and paint.
(Note that the brown spots still on the frame are mostly brown paint, not rust).There are a lot of other small parts to paint. This is going to take a little while.
Ugg work! Don't envy you this job.
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