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Post by sf on Oct 23, 2018 17:13:12 GMT -5
A crank should be stored on its end correct?
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Post by Walms on Oct 23, 2018 17:41:21 GMT -5
I’ve never heard anything on that myself but that doesn’t mean much. Ian, you can use your upper case to hold the crank and use solder to support 2 journals and check for runnout that way. You’ll just need a proper indicator and stand.
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Post by Curtis on Oct 23, 2018 19:08:47 GMT -5
Ian didn’t you move closer this way ? You can borrow some of my tooling if you need
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Post by zambia on Oct 23, 2018 21:52:42 GMT -5
Curtis, I moved further away - between Milton and Guelph. I have a good dial gauge .. maybe I'll try Walm's suggestion. It would be interesting to see how true the crank is..the Kawasaki bag is long gone, and the outboard bearing has some surface rust - everything else seems mint
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Post by Curtis on Oct 24, 2018 3:05:07 GMT -5
You could try Brent Cross of Bronkos in Milton - he has a good rep for engine building and a full machine shop there if you need help,
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Post by givr on Oct 24, 2018 6:45:20 GMT -5
LC has a good setup for checking run out. You might want to ask him. He's fairly close to you as well.
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Post by zambia on Jul 28, 2019 20:32:37 GMT -5
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Post by Curtis on Jul 28, 2019 20:53:59 GMT -5
Looks great !
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Post by reimair on Jul 28, 2019 21:08:10 GMT -5
Absolutely beautiful. You are doing this bike justice.
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Post by acceleration on Jul 29, 2019 0:41:37 GMT -5
Ian.Big thanks for giving us the restoration project.And your trust and confidence in our work.We have done many body sets for a lot of bikes: RD'S, RZ'S, TZR'S and quite a few triples.But this was the FIRST 69 H1 500 set and in white and blue.The Blue stripes are fully painted and measured and laid out and stenciled by hand, and it took longer than we expected.But we wouldn't do it any other way than correctly. The KAWASAKI logo is also painted on.They are not stickers.Someone had previously drilled some extra holes through the MACH III emblem and the side cover and installed pop rivets to hold the old MACH III emblem on.We welded and repaired those holes on the side cover.The new repro MACH III emblems are not curved and have to be carefully re-shaped and contoured to the shape of the curve on the side cover so as not to mark the paint on the cover when installing it.Not to mentioned being careful not to crack the emblem.We can't wait to see the bike when it is completed.Those 69 H1 500'S are arguably even more Iconic than the 72 H2 750 ? Thanks again Ian.Wish you continued success with the project.Hope the newly restored body panels give you some inspiration to continue completing the project.It's going to be a great bike !!
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Post by zambia on Jul 29, 2019 7:00:49 GMT -5
Gran Sport is the real deal... you can be a good painter, but if you don't have passion..you will never do this kind of work. Two thumbs up to these guys.
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Post by crazycunuc on Jul 29, 2019 7:25:17 GMT -5
They look great Ian!! Awesome work Kieth
Only problem with paint that good is trying to get the rest of the bike to looks that great too haha I'm sure that won't be a problem for you though. Can't wait for more updates!
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Post by acceleration on Jul 29, 2019 8:45:03 GMT -5
Thanks for the compliments.Just from perspective.We use the best primers and paints available.But once the body panels are stripped to bare metal they are treated with metal cleaners and metal conditioners before applying an epoxy primer.That protects the metal from rusting and promotes better adhesion of the epoxy primer.Several coats sanding primers are then applied and all the panels are all carefully wet sanded by hand in between primer coats with ultra fine sand paper to make sure the surface is straight and there are no imperfections and no sanding marks in the primer.And although the paint and materials are high quality it is really the surface prep and all the work done "before it is painted" that give the paint and color it's depth.We are currently finishing up on several other body sets.One is a Candy blue 1972 H2 750.Also a set in Candy Purple for a 1973 H2 750 and a tank for a Yamaha TZR 250.Hope to get some pictures up in other project threads on those soon.Thanks again to Ian for going the distance and having confidence in our work. And now that we have have done a 69 H1 500 set.We have a better perspective of what is involved in doing the next set of 69'S.We really weren't sure how long it would take to measure out the stripes and make a stencil for the stripe.Now we do.It took longer than expected.But you can see the results.
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Post by zambia on Jul 29, 2019 10:34:24 GMT -5
Also forgot to mention, it was turned around ahead of schedule
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Post by tdub56 on Jul 29, 2019 13:01:13 GMT -5
Excellent!
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