De-stinking Penelope

[Flyboy]

Dale, in your case, it is more like "go ENORMOUS or go home"

 

[SVSooke]

Greg, with a 13" fan I can do two or three brackets with one pass...

OK now you are just showing off

 

[rustybronco]

OK now you are just showing off

Nope... just because the gun has the capability doesn't mean I'm crazy enough to give a go at it.

Greg, I chose not to go the spray bomb route because I wanted the durability of 2K paints. I don't plan on ever having to repaint a single piece because of rust or paint durability issues. to me that means using an epoxy primer with 2K top coats. I certainly have nothing against anyone else's choice of materials or methods, it's just the route I've chosen. I could have just as easily had them powder coated.

 

[rustybronco]

Stan, don't you mean, go Ignoramus, please go home? best to be called a fool for trying, than to never had tried at all...

 

[SVSooke]

Really I'm jealous to.Just don't have the funds or know how to do that stuff.I do use better rattle can paint.

 

[Flyboy]

Greg, you and me both, these okes that twiddle knobs and set up spray guns, eish, as far as I am concerned, it is a dark art with its roots deep in some sorta hoodoo voodoo..... fancy fandangled spray bomb for me, point and push knob.

 

[rustybronco]

Greg, you and me both, these okes that twiddle knobs and set up spray guns, eish, as far as I am concerned, it is a dark art with its roots deep in some sorta hoodoo voodoo.....

I know someone who's getting a lesson while He's over here.

 

[Guest]

I know someone who's getting a lesson while He's over here.

Hahahahahahahahaha now you're in for it Stan! I got edumacated from afar by certain messr's Dale and Larry... now you're gonna get it first hand! Lucky ba*&$%$!! Hahaha

Having done the whole deal now I can see times where both are good... but the 2K results are impressive even with crappy guns

 

[rustybronco]

No Pete, what is impressive was your perseverance towards the body work and painting your 450. I think 'many' would have chucked the whole thing in and paid someone else to finish it.

It still impresses me to this day.

 

[Guest]

Greg, with a 13" fan I can do two or three brackets with one pass...


dry fitting to make sure everything will match up correctly. I had to tweak the chrome covers so they would retain the gasket properly. now all that's left is scrounge up the small washer that's missing, clean up the harness and paint the white letters then I can finish assembling them.

Dale,
Those are really, really nice.
I've got spiders living in mine :lol:

 

[Rover]

Damn pity those ain't for a G,

Here ya go Flyboy.

 

[rustybronco]

Dale,
Those are really, really nice.
I've got spiders living in mine :lol:

Steve, because of you and Greg, I've been able to pick the best looking pieces to rebuild them from. I think the only thing that's still original to the bike is the black housing and the gasket.

I'm rehabbing the wiring at the moment. out of seventeen illumination bulbs I've tested, six of them were good.

 

[rustybronco]

Done for now

Done for now

I still need to paint the lettering...

 

[Steve]

A Shame we can't fix these
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200690176606?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

http://www.ebay.com/itm/250920275715?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Can't fix what never existed.

Both of those are listed as "CDI for '79 GS850".

First of all, none of the GS bikes even came with a "CDI". What some people (mistakenly) call a "CDI" is the ignitor, and, since the '79 model had points, it didn't even have that.

What those appear to be is the turn signal control unit, and yeah, it's a shame we can't fix them.

.

 

[Guest]

No Pete, what is impressive was your perseverance towards the body work and painting your 450. I think 'many' would have chucked the whole thing in and paid someone else to finish it.

It still impresses me to this day.

Cheers Dale, now you're embarrassing me I just knew what I was in for if I didn't persevere... really didn't wanna start over from scratch!

Steve, because of you and Greg, I've been able to pick the best looking pieces to rebuild them from. I think the only thing that's still original to the bike is the black housing and the gasket.

I'm rehabbing the wiring at the moment. out of seventeen illumination bulbs I've tested, six of them were good.

Not sure if they're the same type but I still have all my stock bulbs here from the LED conversion if it helps... I seem to recall them all working last time they were in there...

 

[Guest]

I still need to paint the lettering...

And that right there is a real nice pair

 

[rustybronco]

What those appear to be is the turn signal control unit, and yeah, it's a shame we can't fix them.

.

Steve, he know full well what those are. I probably have gotten 6 or 7 of them from him in one condition or another. just to bad the idiots on Ebay don't; I got tired of correcting them.

 

[chuck hahn]

Dale..have you redone the engine yet? I know you were saying you were gonna have your son help you get it on the bench at one point.

 

[Guest]

All I can say is wow Dale. Amazing work.

 

[Flyboy]

Thanks Dale, I just drooled all over my keyboard

Wow Rover, awesome, you do know that my Birthday is in two weeks........