Rob’s been decorating again…
Well it’s time for a progress report on my ZXR project. I have spent most of this month polluting the country air with thousands upon thousands of curse words as I have encountered a few big problems. You may remember that last month I painted my tank and mudguard and apart from some easily sorted small runs all was groovy – well it turns out that may not have been the case.
I did manage to flat the runs out easily enough, ready to simply apply another coat of lacquer, but the paint had other ideas. For no real reason whatsoever (well no reason that I can think of anyway) the paint decided to react and promptly leave everything with a rather fetching wrinkle finish; I even tried leaving it a few days and flatting back again to end up with the same result. I can’t think what is causing it, but it’s really annoying. It looks like my only option is going to be to strip all the paint off a including making new decals, oh deep joy.
My fun didn’t end there either, I picked up a neat little quick action throttle from the popular internet auction site for £5, so when it turned up I attempted to make a throttle cable only to find the mounting on the carbs was really loose. Closer inspection revealed that the main mounting, which is cast into the carb body, had broken off. I’ve been on the lookout for another set of carbs but they seem to be like rocking horse poop so I will have to try and make a new bracket that bolts on elsewhere for the time being.
This story is from the January 2019 edition of Fast Bikes.
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