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Yetanotherbike:
As mentioned in my introduction to the forum, my CB400F has been gathering dust for far too many years.
I had the frame, swing arms, hubs and bits and bobs powder coated many years ago. A mate got me some parts galvanised. At the time I didn't really care about originality too much, in fact there was a plan to fit twin discs and use fork legs off a larger model. These days however, I would like it to look as standard as possible. I suppose if I were to do it properly I would strip the powder coating off and have it sprayed etc. But I'm not, so there. My big mistake was having the hubs powder coated in silver. Yes they look nice, but they look nothing like standard and this is something I will have to address. I did ask the question on the other SOHC forum as regards how do I replicate the original finish. I also asked the same question about the fork legs. There seems to be differing opinions on how to achieve the 'right' look.
As the original engine was all but seized, I picked up a spare engine many years ago. So I will probably use a combination of the two engines and new parts. I asked the same question as regards getting the crankcases painted, luckily having looked at  Nurse Julie's excellent rebuild article, I'm now sure which way to go with that one.
To sort of kick start the project again (pun intended) I bought a few bits from David Silver so I can see a bit of progress. I won't be spending every spare minute on this, as besides running other classic bikes, I also dabble with Classic cars, as well as doing DIY projects :( .
So my first picture I'll call Abandoned engineering, except it wasn't abandoned, it was just over looked for a while. A long while. The second picture is the box of goodies that arrived this morning.  :) My joy was slightly muted when I realised there weren't any screws in the boxes that clamp the two halves of switch gear together. Ho hum, I'll tack those onto my next order to David Silver who clearly should be offering a large discount to members of this forum.... ;)


 

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Seems a bit mean not including the clamp screws methinks you can get SS replacements quite easily.
Look forward to you build posts.

philward:
The second picture is the box of goodies that arrived this morning.  :) My joy was slightly muted when I realised there weren't any screws in the boxes that clamp the two halves of switch gear together. Ho hum, I'll tack those onto my next order to David Silver who clearly should be offering a large discount to members of this forum.... ;)
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I used M5 JIS SS screws (just check they are M5 as its a while back when I bought them) on my bikes.
(I think the company trades as 'Megapack' on Ebay from memory - they do loads of specialist SS bits for Jap classics

philward:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_ssn=megapacks&store_name=megapacks&_dmd=2&_oac=1&_trksid=p2047675.m3561.l2562

Yetanotherbike:
Cheers for that Phil, that's very helpful, I've just ordered some from the shop on Fleabay.

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