rode it to work and back... then wondered if I could do the Hasting May Day run....

Added the logo for the front shield... not sure if I should have done the tuning fork logo smaller and the Kanji bigger... also plasti dipped the circle covers and the plastic cover for the chain/oil bath in the same color as the wheels, have to glossify tomorrow once its dry. And I have wrapped the heat shield and now finishing it off.

very nice funky.

looks great lad, if you want to break up the yellow, what do you think of a black 1 inch wide strip that goes near the edge all the way round, can be a shield shape to it

Hi Meldrew. Sounds like you've been busy. What fluid did you use for the coolant and were there any particular problems please? Mine's probably due to be done about now.
Ta.
Cookie

Thanks Meldrew for taking the time to write all that up. It's a great help. By coincidence mine is four and a half years old too. I'll get some of that coolant and get it done. Those pictorials on the SW forum are pretty good eh?

I usually re-use copper washers a couple of times simply by annealing them with a blowtorch first. They usually soften up nicely. Not that I'm tight you understand!

Thanks again,
Cookie

Cookie wrote:I usually re-use copper washers a couple of times simply by annealing them with a blowtorch first. They usually soften up nicely. Not that I'm tight you understand!

I usually get them glowing a nice bright red/orange and then let them cool in their own time in the air.

Ah - a fellow annealer - or are you just a bit tight as well Globs?
I usually get them glowing red/orange then dunk them in water. It doesn't cause them to go hard as it would with steel, they still soften nicely but the rapid cooling tends to shock the dirt and scale off leaving them nice and bright.
See, lazy as well as tight - saves me having to clean them up after the heating.
It also avoids the washer shaped burns in your fingers when you pick them up too soon....

It's usually as I have a perfect washer in my hand, a blowtorch in the garage and it's quicker and easier than going out and finding a new one for whatever bolt and vehicle it happens to be.

It also allows me to play with fire and look at red/orange hot metal, so it's a win-win.

fitted led tail light and led white side light bulb and metal dustcaps ha ha