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The "Today I did something to my bike" thread
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ooh, ultrasonic bath - noice !
Tell us about the one you have and what fluid you put in it. I bought a mickey mouse one a while ago and it's useless. Has yours a heating function ? And ever since they banned Freon it's even more useless!
What paint do you put on the calipers btw ? - I have a set of 3 Suzuki ones to do in a while as well.
http://www.shopallstardental.com/index.php?route=product/product&manufacturer_id=36&product_id=1291
Decent quality unit. 3 litres iirc. This one doesn't heat but a top up with hot water to keep it at 50c will see you good.
I use water vinegar and soap, works well.
Just finished with the badly krud infested rear master. Hard deposit of dried brake fluid and ingrained dirt galore:)
Twenty mins later you have this. All very shiny yada yada but crucially the microscopic return port is now immaculate. For carbs or injectors or anything with hard to get at bits this is a winner.
Get one you will love it and use the hell out of it.
Paint for the caliper was aerosol etch prime, old formula fast black gloss and two pack lacquer.0 -
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Good on ya Kiddums and Mrs Kiddums:) looks like ye had great craic. Where'd ye go?
Started at my saddle tonight
Despite being meticulous in my measurements I somehow ended up with a 6mm gap up top lol. Still do not understand how. Its as if the process of peeling off the very adhesive backing of the gel pad somehow stretched and then it rebounded back 6mm shorter!? Mad Ted.
Plugged the gap with a 6mm piece of foam cut to shape and I'll sand it flush once the spray adhesive goes off properly tomo.
The tricky bit kicks off then tailoring a 3mm thick closed cell foam smoothing layer over the whole saddle before fitting the new cover.0 -
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Cork Trucker wrote: »Do you have to drill into the fender to apply push rivets?
You have a choice to fix in place with really strong 3m adhesive patches that need 12hr to cure or four rivets with a 4mm drill piece. I did both for maximum strength and less of a chance dropping off. Did a reasonable job making it nice and tidy tbh......
Fender is made by Puig and distributed by Pyramid for some reason!
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Puig Fender by Gary, on Flickr 0 -
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Dent, a sizeable enough one.
20 quid chinesium kit.
Use the hot glue gun to stick the wee pucks
And slide hammer em out.
Took the major dent out. Now left with the central dip.
Used a fair few chasing small dips and used a small nylon hammer to lower any raised peaks. Quite fun actully
Barely a ripple left.
Now I can match the paint and fill in the chips and cut them back.0 -
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Damn that's deadly!.. Gonna order one now, thank you
I usually use a sink plunger to pull of dents but this looks the business
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Cayden Defeated Thunderstorm wrote: »Damn that's deadly!.. Gonna order one now, thank you
I usually use a sink plunger to pull of dents but this looks the business
Just bought it, didn't tell the wife though :pac::D0 -
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Cayden Defeated Thunderstorm wrote: »Damn that's deadly!.. Gonna order one now, thank you
I usually use a sink plunger to pull of dents but this looks the business
No worries;)
Couple tips I learnt Mak... clean the puck, glue stick and surface with Isopropyl or brake cleaner and preheat it and the surface.
When applying the glue to the puck cover the mating surface entirely with about 5mm or so thickness of glue.
Don't press it on hard enough to bottom it out against the panel or it pops off first strike of the hammer. Let it set for 10mins.
You have to be perfectly at right angles to the puck orientation when hammering or... she pops off.
Use as big as possible a puck where feasible, especially at the start when removing the initial debth to the dent.
Drink lots of beer whilst doing this and I betcha your neighbours ask "can you do that to my car?!":)0 -
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eBay is both a blessing and a curse :cool:
It's like the end of Bullseye. "Here's what you would have won" :pac:
Scrap the cap!
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »eBay is both a blessing and a curse :cool:
A curse
And eBay is only the tip of the iceberg for me.
These beautiful Akra cans(for a different bike) have popped up on an Italian website.
I have a set of carbon arrows on the bike but would love these
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Yesterday installed an SW-Motech DIN socket (with 1.6m wiring harness, battery terminals and fuse for 20 euro from motorcycleshop.ie - bargain!) for running my tyre pump and the occasional trickle charge. (Although the SV doesn't really need charging, the Triumph's charging system was always a bit marginal even though the bike was used 5 days a week every week.)
Today I installed Oxford LED front indicators (and resistors) in parallel with the completely shyte flush mounted LED indicators this bike came with.
Rear ones will take a while longer as the wiring loom has been butchered when a previous eejit put the stupid tail tidy on, and I managed to snap the stem off one of the indicators by overtorquing it by not very much some epoxy should render it serviceable.
That's some bird sh!t on the SV logo btw Scrap the cap!
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Diggin the aux power feed, handy Yokes.Hotblack Desiato wrote: »Yesterday installed an SW-Motech DIN socket for running my tyre pump and the occasional trickle charge. (Although the SV doesn't really need charging, the Triumph's charging system was always a bit marginal even though the bike was used 5 days a week every week.)
Today I installed Oxford LED front indicators (and resistors) in parallel with the completely shyte flush mounted LED indicators this bike came with.
Rear ones will take a while longer as the wiring loom has been butchered when a previous eejit put the stupid tail tidy on, and I managed to snap the stem off one of the indicators by overtorquing it by not very much some epoxy should render it serviceable.
That's some bird sh!t on the SV logo btw
Ya drill the fairing to mount the other indies HB?0 -
Yup
Takes balls of steel to drill into virgin fairing :pac:
Had to dremel off a good bit of the yoke behind it as well, fcukin' used up about five cutting discs to cut off not very much plastic and was lucky to not lose an eye when the fcukers disintegrated multiple times. Scrap the cap!
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »Yup
Takes balls of steel to drill into virgin fairing :pac:
Had to dremel off a good bit of the yoke behind it as well, fcukin' used up about five cutting discs to cut off not very much plastic and was lucky to not lose an eye when the fcukers disintegrated multiple times.
Plastic melts as you cut and grips the disc most likely. Safety squints engaged:)
So two sets of indys.... Is it a safety visibility buzz for commuting, will one set be left on as running lights kinda dealio?0 -
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