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Offline ford832

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« Reply #30 on: February 20, 2012, 11:31:36 PM »
Lol,he was a smart man. :D
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« Reply #31 on: February 21, 2012, 11:47:38 AM »
I always liked the mid 80's RM's Looking forward to following your progress here.
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« Reply #32 on: February 28, 2012, 06:17:18 PM »
You may be out of luck Coop.It's been a week already with no info.It would appear TMKIWI has fallen asleep or is just all drunked up on Fosters-or both.  :D
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« Reply #33 on: February 29, 2012, 06:38:07 AM »
Sorry for the delay ford. Work has got in the way of my fun time. :(
I picked up my frames from the sand blasters today. I have a couple of small cracks to Tig up on saturday and 1 of the frames has an engine mount tag broken. Nothing major will have them ready to prime on sunday.
I have also bead blasted all the Aluminium parts for both bikes. Engine , fork tubes , linkages etc.
I am going to experiment on a couple of pieces this weekend with "easy glow" an acid to see what they come out like.
The parts look amazing, like brand new raw aluminium. ;D The easy glow will just change the colour slightly. At the moment the parts are quite whitesh looking and the acid might give them a darker look. Will know soon. We use the acid at work on stainless but no one knows how it will work on alloy.
I will post some pics this weekend.
My new seat turns up tommorrow as well.
Things are progressing slowly but thankfully I am on to the good part of a restoration.
Things are going together now, Not being pulled apart. ;)
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« Reply #34 on: February 29, 2012, 07:38:41 AM »
Here are a couple of photos of the engine and suspension parts straight out of the blasting booth.
Still a little dusty, need hoseing off.










Nice and clean. ;D
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« Reply #35 on: February 29, 2012, 03:41:40 PM »
Did you end up by soda blasting the engine? Or just sand blast?
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« Reply #36 on: February 29, 2012, 09:11:12 PM »
 8)If you keep up along those lines,that bike is going to be almost too pretty to use-but once finished and you ship it over,I'll try it out anyway  ;D
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« Reply #37 on: March 01, 2012, 07:27:13 AM »
Quote from: cnrcpla on February 29, 2012, 11:41:40 PM
Did you end up by soda blasting the engine? Or just sand blast?

I bead blasted the engine at work.
Bead blasting is used on non ferrous metals because there is no cross contamination like with sand.
In other words if you sand blast carbon steel and then sand blast stainless or aluminium you will contaminate the stainless/alloy with the steel and they will show surface rust.
Beads will still do the same but not so easily.
No carbon steel is allowed in our booth.
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« Reply #38 on: March 01, 2012, 01:26:22 PM »
Your engine pieces came out so nice, I was going to try, but at the shop we only have a sand blaster, so I guess just some purple power and elbow grease will get the job done  ;D
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« Reply #39 on: March 02, 2012, 06:04:34 AM »
I managed to get abit done after work today.
Tig welded up the small frame crack.


Frames ready to be primed. (I did that tonight , photos to come.)



Machined polished the fork tubes.
The polished set on the left next to the bead blasted set for comparison.
There is still some hand polishing to do to finish off.



My new seat cover turned up as well. Photo with the new Zeta bars.



I hope to paint the frames in the next couple of days, just waiting for the shitty weather to clear.
I don't like painting when it is cold and damp.
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« Reply #40 on: March 02, 2012, 06:11:23 AM »
Quote from: ford832 on February 29, 2012, 02:17:18 AM
It would appear TMKIWI has fallen asleep or is just all drunked up on Fosters-or both.  :D

Not even the Aussies will drink that crap ford. ;D

Quote from: cnrcpla on March 01, 2012, 09:26:22 PM
Your engine pieces came out so nice, I was going to try, but at the shop we only have a sand blaster, so I guess just some purple power and elbow grease will get the job done  ;D

Depends on what you guys have sand blasted.
If you have blasted carbon steel then no.
See if anyone near you can bead blast it for you. Well worth it. ;D
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« Reply #41 on: March 02, 2012, 09:29:57 PM »
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Depends on what you guys have sand blasted.
If you have blasted carbon steel then no.
See if anyone near you can bead blast it for you. Well worth it. Grin
  At the shop, we do all kinds of restorations work, so there have been countless rusty old tractor hoods and other parts in the sand blaster. I will look into the bead blaster though, it is definitely worth it  ;D
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« Reply #42 on: March 03, 2012, 04:33:24 AM »
It warmed up enough today to paint the frames.
I choose a 2 pot metalic blue used on later Suzuki road bikes.
I liked the colour and thought it would look abit different to the normal pale blue used on the early RM's.
The first photo is what the colour looks like. I had to cover up the flash.



Photo's with the flash make it look lighter then it is.





I will pick up some new stainless cap screws in the next couple of days and start to throw it together.
It is always more enjoyable when things start to go back together. You can see the progress. ;D
I noticed yesterday when I was mucking around that now everything is bead blasted the front brake master cylinder & caliper now look like shit when fitted to the legs.
These were the only things I did not do.
So if you want to bead blast a bike like this you will need to do EVERYTHING.
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« Reply #43 on: March 03, 2012, 04:35:17 AM »
PS. There are no scratchs on the 3rd photo.
Just reflections. ;D
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« Reply #44 on: March 03, 2012, 04:56:23 AM »
Nice  ;D Is that blue the stock color of the frame for that year, or is it just the color you picked out? Just asking because if it is the stock color, how did you match it up to the new paint color?
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