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Rusted seat pan
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: royhall on March 21, 2015, 10:41:39 AM ---Cheers Ash. For anybody that lifts the seat though, its pretty nasty. Looks awful and ,crikey, the sharp edges to catch yourself on. Think I'm still looking for a new replica seat as my base is also rotted badly. Thanks anyway. Any ideas on where to get a replica seat with the Honda logo anybody.
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Yes it doesn't look ideal but the principle of making a short section with the spikes the same way as the original (not as in the video) and then brazing or spot welding it on in damaged spike areas would be a good idea.. For my CB250SS K0 there are no replica bases available so lucky really to have what I have to work on.
ash
royhall:
By the way Ash, not fitted the F2 carbs with the rubbers you did for me yet.
Unbelievably I'm still waiting for the clamp bands to come back from Lancaster Bronze with the new chrome on them. It's now going into week 7. Think they may have lost them and don't know how to tell me. They keep saying on the phone (for two weeks now) they are just going into the chroming tank. They cashed the cheque though.
Will report back when the carbs are back on, if ever!!!
Cheers.
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: royhall on March 21, 2015, 11:33:19 AM ---By the way Ash, not fitted the F2 carbs with the rubbers you did for me yet.
Unbelievably I'm still waiting for the clamp bands to come back from Lancaster Bronze with the new chrome on them. It's now going into week 7. Think they may have lost them and don't know how to tell me. They keep saying on the phone (for two weeks now) they are just going into the chroming tank. They cashed the cheque though.
Will report back when the carbs are back on, if ever!!!
Cheers.
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I thought they were supposed to be BZP Roy? That's what I did on the old 400/4 ones I replated for Nurse J. Or does F2 have chromed ones. I know my 750K0 ones are BZP.
royhall:
Your right they should be, but Lancaster Bronze didn't want to do that. They said it's not corrosion resistant enough. Think all in all I need a new chromer. Or buy a plating kit myself. Think that may be the way to go.
AshimotoK0:
Here is mine...a horror .. I bought recently from Germany for my '69 CB250SS (K0).. It was from Frank at jap2wheelz who normally sells really decent stuff.. He's going to give me a partial refund based on how it turns out. To be fair to him the complete seat looked not too bad.
After soaking in oxalic acid solution for a couple of weeks it has been transformed .. some bu@@er moved our blast cabinet to a spot where there is no compressed air but it's been sorted out now, hence the acid treatment.
Thinking of glass fibre reinforcing the underside to strengthen it. The foam was nothing like I have seen on a Honda before, its a bit like an egg box shaped construction in black rubber foam overlaid with a covering of 10mm skin of red rubber foam (like 750K0). The black foam is in almost perfect nick just need to find a source of red 10mm thick rubber foam 'Dunlopillo' type covering now.
Ash.
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