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1981 Kawasaki KZ750 Resurrection

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Not too ungodly rusted by the looks of it. You may want to see how well a red scotch-brite works to clean up the rust before getting too carried away with blasting.

If you have one, you might want to try one of those small hand brushes to remove the rust from the stamped vin on the head stock. IIRC that's what I did with mine.
 
rustybronco said:
Not too ungodly rusted by the looks of it. You may want to see how well a red scotch-brite works to clean up the rust before getting too carried away with blasting.

If you have one, you might want to try one of those small hand brushes to remove the rust from the stamped vin on the head stock. IIRC that's what I did with mine.
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Hi Dale,

Yup, have some red scotchbrite pads. Good suggestion. Think I'll try rubbing the frame down with some Metal Prep (phosphoric acid). That stuff eats off rust nicely, and give the metal tooth for painting. We'll see how it goes.
 
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Yeah, manual on the way. Also started gathering parts like gaskets.

Researching on KZrider is even more difficult than here. Those guys must get a ridiculous number of repetitive topics because the search function spits out posts related to the search term, not threads. In particular was trying to figure out what cables to order, and wanted to see if the GPZ cables will fit on my bike because I plan to use the lower lower handlebars. Seems the answer is the clutch cable will fit but not the throttle cable because the carbs are different. Researching stuff like this is proving to be a lot of work.
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yep.I dont like the site either.But its all I can find.
 
nvr2old said:
That's a big project in itself. Frames are a pain to get clean of paint. ;)
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No kidding!

Going to fire up the blaster in a few mins, but glad how the frame is looking up to this point. Going to blast around all the various brackets and down inside the steering head area. Kawasaki did a **** poor job of painting inside that steering head, behind the sheet metal bracing. I hate blasting outside, where the particles fly everywhere but it's a necessary evil. Looking forward to getting this thing in paint.
 
If they offered prizes for motorcycle repair masochism, I'd have won today.:o

After the phosphate was washed off and the frame blow dried with the leaf blower, hit it with a wire wheel then the sandblaster. It's clean as a whistle now.

Copied Dale and used coal slag for blasting.

Epoxy primer next. Should be a walk in the park compared to today.

P1010437 by nessism, on Flickr

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That's sure a thing of beauty especially when you look at it in hi-res.

Nice work turning a rust bucket into something to be proud of.
 
I can't wait to look at your work in hi-rez. Did you use just the minijet? Or did you use the EGA along with it?
 
rustybronco said:
I can't wait to look at your work in hi-rez. Did you use just the minijet? Or did you use the EGA along with it?
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Dale, used the Minijet to shoot the black. The DeVilbiss touch up gun was used for the primer. Greatly prefer the "cup on top" design of the newer guns. The older guns leave paint in the cup, are harder to clean, and drip when you tilt them too much.
 
Nessism said:
Dale, used the Minijet to shoot the black. The DeVilbiss touch up gun was used for the primer. Greatly prefer the "cup on top" design of the newer guns. The older guns leave paint in the cup, are harder to clean, and drip when you tilt them too much.
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I greatly prefer the gravity feed guns of today as well. I did convert my old MBC to a dripless cup years ago with a brass elbow and some brake line tubing. Took the worry out of shooting a horizontal panel.

I zoomed in on the frame. Some very nice work. Loved how close you got to to the vin label.

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Dale, the VIN sticker has a clear mylar over the top which overlaps onto the black. I trimmed it back to the edge of the white label. The mylar is starting to lift in places so going to see if I can carefully remove it. We have similar mylar's at work to use as a replacement.

The paint looks decent, but not perfect. Hit all the little brackets and tabs from all angles possible to get paint underneath. Getting paint behind the steering head area was a real challenge. At any rate, it's done. :D
 
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