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The last road block, or so I hope, was breached yesterday when I located the elusive ‘Arm & Hammer Washing Soda‘ at Fred Meyer. I’d tried all the other local establishments but they seemed to be a little too ‘high faluten’ for something as old-school as ‘Washing Soda‘. In parallel with my quest for [...] Conducted a little paint test over the weekend. Hung up the parts, on a makeshift suspension system and shot some paint. One panel, much like the gas tank, is still giving me some trouble. There are pits from the plastic welding that just do not want to fill. I have a new filling/sanding primer [...] Despite a wild week at work, I did get a little work done on the KZ. I have enough general paint supplies to start doing some color / idea testing on the bike. After much deliberation, the first color I am going to try is a very dark green, with light metalic flake. I’m hoping [...] A little more work done on the KZ400 today! Yesterday while test fitting parts, I discovered that the powder coated Clubman bars are too thick and interfere with operation of the trottle. At first, I tried to sand it all off. I sanded and sanded. All that provided was a scratched up, equally thick [...] This week, I have been working with my son on the little Kawi. While I was vacationing in The Gorge, this past week, a pile of parts arrived for the Kawi. Along with starting some bodywork on the gas tank, I also performed the first test fitting of a number of new parts: rear turn [...] While filling dings and dents in the gas tank, I applied a few guide coats (primer applied with the intent of sanding all of it all to surface level, which will leave any high or low spots easy to identify) and was relocating the tank on the painting table, at which point the worn out [...] Custom, such an over-used word. What I’m looking for is a non-stock off-the-shelf tail light assembly I can use for the bike. Saw this one on Amazon.. solves a couple of problems. Tail light and license plate mount. Leaning PRETTY hard towards this one: Custom Motorcycle LED Rear Tail Light. It’s $30.00 which beats the [...] Finally off the ground and moving forward! I had some help Thursday taking off all the big old 70′s chromy bits and bodywork. It took a few hours but I ended up with a big box of parts that I probably won’t use again on the final product. This how the day started: Of [...] Progress continues on the KZ400 project. Today’s work was focused around using my new plastic welder to fill in holes on the side panel. The plastic welder came with a number of welding sticks, to use with a variety of plastics. After quite a bit of melting, and trying the PVC, ABS and PP welding [...] D2Moto had a pretty dang good say going, so I ordered some more parts for the project bike. Parts Ordered While I was at it, I also picked up some blink for the Ducati. In fact, almost 1/2 the order is one set of blingware for the Duc. It deserves a little attention as [...] |
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