Ha ha, you're a cruel cruel man Martin, I said this was gonna be a cheap arse rustification, so I hope to have a rolling chassis within the week! (although it looks like it's gonna be sh1t weather this week, so maybe not)
I was given some gift cards for my local Bunnings Warehouse (hardware store) for my birthday last month, so I used them to buy a box full of stuff to cut the dodgy rearset footpeg plates off, remove the grease, rust and paint, a (pretty useless) gas torch, and a couple of rattle cans of Rustoleum 2X gloss enamel, which should be enough to do the whole frame.
I stripped the frame down to nothing, then cut the plates off, smoothed the welds with a flap disc on my 30 year old Makita angle grinder, then swapped the flap disc for a nylon strip disc, that ripped the paint and rust off without hurting the metal. Still got a lot to do, but getting there.
Fred, thank you for your input, yep that lovely original paint red tank, single cut fender, K0 oil tank and that bag of "big 8" bolts and screws you sent me will be going on. I'll see if I can get that dent taken out professionally, I don't want to hurt that 47 year old paint. Frank, yep, it's a later head, but I have a magnificent K0 head on a shelf here.
I'm looking for a good (doesn't have to be mint) rear fender, has anyone got one? I'm happy to pay a fair price and fast shipping if anyone has one? OK, thanks everyone for checking in, more tomorrow. Cheers, Terry.
