GaryJames
Veteran Member
After 2 months at the painters ( car painter actually but recommended to me ) I got the tank back yesterday.
Pretty good and I am well pleased with the result. Some pics of tank, naked and dressed and on the frame, and also the neutral switch I soldered a blob of silver solder on to as the brass contact was very thin.
The closeup of the tank cap is showing my modification replacing the riveted pin, not enough length left on it to do another peen over, replaced with a 4m machine screw. I tapped the centre hole of the toggle thingy to match.
Had to then trim off some of the thread on the end of the screws so it would got through the spring. It is a devil that spring. It is small and fiery and won't do as it is told when trying to compress it and screw the centre screw through.
The spring has a short and a long arm. I found the only way it would go on nicely is with the long arm down, pressing on the tank.
About the tank paint job.
After basic metal prep, filling and priming the white strips were painted on first. Using really thin ( as in width ) vinyl tape. This was to reduce puckering over the compound curves.
Then re-masked to paint the wide black stripes.
Masked again for the Green main coat.
Various coats were applied of each colour to match the paint thickness of the previous colour. Very time consuming but the result is after the Clear was applied you cannot feel any ridging over the stripes.
I know this is not how Honda painted the tank in the factory as I am pretty sure stripes were the last to go on by hand.
All two pack and oven baked.
Main metallic Mist Green base coat is water based. Painter advised that better than using a solvent based paint as dries with a more uniform surface and much less microscopic pin holes in the paint where the solvents vented out from.
By the way, all this was done from three hi res pictures I supplied stolen off the internet.
Cheers
Gary
Auckland
Pretty good and I am well pleased with the result. Some pics of tank, naked and dressed and on the frame, and also the neutral switch I soldered a blob of silver solder on to as the brass contact was very thin.
The closeup of the tank cap is showing my modification replacing the riveted pin, not enough length left on it to do another peen over, replaced with a 4m machine screw. I tapped the centre hole of the toggle thingy to match.
Had to then trim off some of the thread on the end of the screws so it would got through the spring. It is a devil that spring. It is small and fiery and won't do as it is told when trying to compress it and screw the centre screw through.
The spring has a short and a long arm. I found the only way it would go on nicely is with the long arm down, pressing on the tank.
About the tank paint job.
After basic metal prep, filling and priming the white strips were painted on first. Using really thin ( as in width ) vinyl tape. This was to reduce puckering over the compound curves.
Then re-masked to paint the wide black stripes.
Masked again for the Green main coat.
Various coats were applied of each colour to match the paint thickness of the previous colour. Very time consuming but the result is after the Clear was applied you cannot feel any ridging over the stripes.
I know this is not how Honda painted the tank in the factory as I am pretty sure stripes were the last to go on by hand.
All two pack and oven baked.
Main metallic Mist Green base coat is water based. Painter advised that better than using a solvent based paint as dries with a more uniform surface and much less microscopic pin holes in the paint where the solvents vented out from.
By the way, all this was done from three hi res pictures I supplied stolen off the internet.
Cheers
Gary
Auckland
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