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CB750F2 .... silk purse from a sows ear.
SumpMagnet:
The seat base may yet serve a purpose.....as a mould to make a fibreglass version.
I'll amend my E-Bay ad to read 'Rust taken from a Genuine 1978 Honda's seat' ..... and reduce the price to 50p per bag ( £7.00 postage )
And yes...that seat was vile. Combined with a lovely pair of high rise bars with stupidly swept back ends. There is no excuse for either.
Rob62:
Engine doesn’t look too bad inside, bit of sludge in a 40 yo motor...... you can buy a new seat pan off ebay for 40 quid, why mess about with fibreglass.
SumpMagnet:
Clutch is still an issue...and I need to take a step back and work out a proper solution to lock up the rear sprocket before I damage something in frustration. In the meantime...I have turned my attention to other bits and pieces and am working my way through the shelf of shoddy and appraising what I have/need/should dicard.
Which brings me to the point of todays post....
I have a lot of small odds and ends that are a bit rusty...but which were originally plated. things like the metal cover plates under the footrest rubbers, the insdie of the pillion pegs, the pins that go through the pegs. All things that while they were not really rusty....had worn the plating off...or have a bit of surface corrosion.
Now...I could bundle up a whole load of things and send them off to a plater...but I don't have anywhere local and I am not sure who I could trust to actually send me back things. I could try and replace....or...I could try home plating. I would rather refurbish original parts rather than replace unless I can get genuine parts. With footrests...I will use pattern rubbers...but not the other parts. I have bought cheap e-bay footrests before....never again. I only did that one time as I was selling the bike and tore the end off the rubber on an overly tall traffic island....
I have no problem cleaning up and polishing the parts...but wondered how easy/successful home plating actually is...or if it's best left to the pros.
If the latter....is there anyone in the southeast I can use who knows their stuff...and knows what a MOTORCYCLE is?
Nurse Julie:
Always re zinc or powder coat if you can. There is no guarantee that if you source new parts, they will actually be the same as what was originally fitted, especially with parts classed as 'Genuine', which is not the same as 'Original' and then the superseded parts numbers, which have been superseded again...it's a minefield.
kent400:
There's www.colmorfinishing.co.uk based in Borough Green Kent. Small operation, little more than one man and a dog. Always seems to be a fairly quick turn-around
Picked up these a few days ago charged £40. Think there were 14 of them.
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