Bike Project: In which I recant my luddite ways

Yesterday I managed to sand about 1/3rd of the frame in 90 minutes. Today I sanded the other 2/3rds in about 30 minutes. All thanks to technology!

I bought a palm sander last year when we bought our house. But, for reasons I can’t remember, I decided that I wasn’t going to use it for sanding the bike. Terrible idea. I put it to work today and it’s a total life saver.

Tomorrow I’ll use a Dremel, which I also bought last year, to sand all the fiddly bits on the frame. Then I should be ready to start painting the bike on Thursday.

Buying power tools just for the bike project certainly would violate the Good + Cheap approach that I mentioned in my previous post. But since I already had the tools, I should put them to work.

Project totals:
Days: 7
Cost: 165