Well, quite the week, progress has been made, even with the missus banning me from any rattle can action in the garage, indeed i have been banished to the bins. I jerry rigged a mini spray booth...well, a cardboard box with the front cut out and a bar inserted to hang things from. Under pain of death if i get any paint on the bins. The trials of this avid bike builder.
So, with everything cleans and wiped over with white spirits i began the slow process of priming all my parts restored thus far. The pace being dictated by both the weather and the capcity of my booth. But, despite the sedantry pace, all were primed in good order:
Forgive the socked feet......
I am pleased with my progress, indeed a happy man. I have test assembled all parts, and i have now come to terms with what 40 years does to rubber grommets and O-rings, so off to flea bay and Amazon for some speculative purchasing of said pieces.
With the parts primed, sanded and primed again they are now ready for the satin black final coat, to the rattle cans......The last job for the front is the fork lowers needing a good clean and polish, my dilema is to just a light polish with some Autosol, or go for the mirror finish with mops and a lot of swearing, i do love these decisions.
Thats it for this short interlude, next uP the finished parts, assembled and ready for the frame, something that still needs the engine removing and then trimmed of some redundant fixings and cleaned up before powder coating.
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