Petrol was pretty easy to get rid of when we had a farm. Many a, "voooomph" was had. Slightly harder in suburbia these days, maybe when the next Milo tin is emptied it can be repurposed.
While aware of the alfoil method, I've never tried it. I'll be giving it a go on the upper handle bar half. I also got out the Dremel yesterday, and I've got a tiny wire brush attachment for it, and a soft polishing attachment. Between all of this, I reckon they're going to come up pretty well. My SB45 bars were so cooked they needed to be rechromed and that cost a small fortune.
I was not aware of the vacuum bag trick. That one I'll certainly be saving for later, cheers Gadge.
Might look at dropping the head and cylinder off to be vapour blasted today, and I'll try to tidy up the block and piston myself. I don't really want to split the crank case if I don't have to.
