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1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
AshimotoK0:
A few years I spotted a Candy Green tank in a real Honda aficionados garage when I was looking at his sandcasts and I though wow , one of these days I am going to get a 500 in that colour and that's what Menno is painting my set with (it's it's original colour anyway) But looking at James's Gold 500K0 I really like that too. The tank that Menno is painting is a spare one I got with bike 'cos the original one was absolutely disgusting inside. However, over the last week, I stripped the original tank and I bunged two tubs of caustic soda from the pound shop in it and a kettle full of boiling water . Fk me it was like something from a Frankenstein movie with all the heat, hissing and gurgling but turns out the tank had been lined and my 'brew' stripped it out ...it looked like a load of seaweed when I pulled it out. that tank now looks the most dent free tank I have ever seen for a 45 year old bike. Think I might get it painted as a spare in Gold by Menno once I have got my resto's done then I can swap over as the mood takes me. Still love the green though. Funnily enough, the earliest model I know of from Honda with candy paint is the 1967 SS125A but the candy paint was on the frame, not the tank etc !
No before pics but ask James what that tank looked like inside pre-treating it. ;D
A nice easy one for you Menno when you get it to do (I would think in the Autumn)
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JamesH:
Holy shit balls. I want it back ha ha !
JamesH:
What did you use to strip the exterior?
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: Jamesh_sussex on March 28, 2016, 10:23:10 AM ---What did you use to strip the exterior?
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Its the stuff in the larger tin James ... 20 quid at autojumble knocked down from £25. I said to the woman selling it ..how do I know it will work OK and she replied " I will guarantee it works great , as I sold a tin to my daughter, that she 'treated' her ex husband's car with to get back at him for being unfaithful". Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and all that !
The stuff in the 1 litre can is just as good but around 7 quid at autojumbles. All Methylene chloride based.
Seaweed stuff is out of the tank !
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AshimotoK0:
When I was at school I had a Saturday job at a supermarket (saved up 15 quid to buy my 1st bike a Honda C200 (all frame no engine) ) and the old warehouse guy there detested, as he called it 'double handling' (doing a job twice). Had a bit of de-javu when I opened my shed up to find Keith on here his K7 shocks and found that the two CB250/350 frames I cleaned up last year were corroding badly. So rigged up a tent around the end of the bead blaster to extend it and had to clean them up again. Plus made myself a rear shock compressor tool. So no progress on the 500K0 I am afraid. I blame the corrosion on the b*stard crabby Polycell paint stripper (the funny smelling white stuff ... thats shite).
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