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Title: Skorp Project Update
Post by: andy230 on December 16, 2013, 12:28:13 PM

Parenting has been gobbling up my project tinkering time!!

So this has taken ages.  Also, I am very slow.  The fork slider I got from Steff, via SteveH wouldn't take the paint I bought.  So I rubbed it back (Again) and primed it, before painting.  It still looked gash.  So I rubbed it all back (bare), then primed it, and hammerited it with a brush.  Looks crap, but at least its black.

I then built and unbuilt, then rebuilt the forks.  Partly due to puncturing seals with a screwdriver on insertion.  Then inspection of the one old slider showed that it was rather lumpy, and so the seal was getting stuck on the way in.

3 seals later, I took it to the bike shop who initially f'cked up the first slider.

The bike is now at least rolling again.

This started out as a service.  Oil, filter, valve clearances.  Then I thought I'd clean the whole thing up.  Then, tidy the old crap wiring under the old crap seat.  Then I thought about fitting the old race seat I had, with a flash of black paint.  But I decided to get it painted with the tank and front guard.  And I needed to fabricate a little subframe for the silly race seat.  And come up with a fixing mechanism.

Here it is.  The body work is just placed on, as is the front guard.  Now the latter is fixed on, but I need to mount the headlamp properly, and put tank rubbers on etc.

And the photos made me realise that I need a small neat back light, mounted on to the fibreglass.  So that means Ebay again for more nice, waterproof AMP connectors and a little rear lamp.

Then back to the paint man to get it flatted back a bit.  I think I want it a bit more matt...

It is still ugly, but maybe a bit less ugly than it was.

Cheers

a

ps.  Thanks big time to Steff and SteveH!



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Title: Re: Skorp Project Update
Post by: andy230 on December 16, 2013, 12:28:58 PM

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Title: Re: Skorp Project Update
Post by: andy230 on December 16, 2013, 12:41:40 PM

Also need a layer of seat foam to save my poor aching piles!!

(And maybe some norton badges, to confuse the punters)

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Title: Re: Skorp Project Update
Post by: themoudie on December 17, 2013, 12:51:07 AM

Aye Loon!  ;)

I appreciate the 'small person' mechanic in the first shot, this shows promise!  ;)

Skorp looking good as well.  ;D

Regards, Bill.

Title: Re: Skorp Project Update
Post by: SRXweb on December 18, 2013, 05:03:43 PM

Be carefull, a little goblin is trying to open the garage !!  ;) ;)

Nice job.