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Fork Stem Nut Clock with Housing
Made from scrap metal and a watch/clock bought at an Army PX for $20. The housing was primed and painted. It has three Allen screws, two for holding the housing to the nut and one to hold the watch/clock to the housing. The watch is mounted on the nut with double back tape. The watch is backlit using one of the buttons and is waterproof to 50 meters and is vibration resistant. The completed installation actually looks a lot better than the picture shows.
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I haven't been on here in awhile, so I just got done catching up. There's some great ideas on here.
Mud, the indexes are awesome. I noticed you polished your primary and cam covers, and earlier you teased that you would show how. Any chance you could do that. I am planning on polishing my primary, cam, and clutch cover I think. I could use some tips. What did you use to strip the PC, and what did you polish with. Any advice would be great.
Mud, the indexes are awesome. I noticed you polished your primary and cam covers, and earlier you teased that you would show how. Any chance you could do that. I am planning on polishing my primary, cam, and clutch cover I think. I could use some tips. What did you use to strip the PC, and what did you polish with. Any advice would be great.
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I haven't been on here in awhile, so I just got done catching up.
There's some great ideas on here.
Mud, the indexes are awesome.
I noticed you polished your primary and cam covers,
and earlier you teased that you would show how.
Any chance you could do that.
I am planning on polishing my primary, cam, and clutch cover I think.
I could use some tips.
What did you use to strip the PC,
and what did you polish with.
Any advice would be great.
I haven't been on here in awhile, so I just got done catching up.
There's some great ideas on here.
Mud, the indexes are awesome.
I noticed you polished your primary and cam covers,
and earlier you teased that you would show how.
Any chance you could do that.
I am planning on polishing my primary, cam, and clutch cover I think.
I could use some tips.
What did you use to strip the PC,
and what did you polish with.
Any advice would be great.
Here ya go Dan.........
This is the stripper I use.
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Delaminates the powdercoating pretty good.
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Then ya gotta hit it with fine wet/dry sandpaper,
and polishing rouge,
pictured farther down a couple pix
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Clamped my big motor to the table (outside),
you see a couple rouge bars in the lower right corner of the picture
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another shot of the stripper in action
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below, fine wet/dry sandpaper, diamond pads, water squirt bottle, a fine file for flats,
the castings are somewhat rough under the powdercoating.
And I like this X-treem polish for the final touch.
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Polishing all this aluminum is a pretty big job.
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Last edited by mud; Feb 13, 2009 at 09:53 PM.
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Mud, Thanks for the quick response. It does look like some work, but the finished product looks awesome.
How does the bare aluminum hold up. Does it require a lot of maintenance to keep it looking good? Honestly, I don't wash my bike as much as some people do. If I have good weather, I'd rather ride.
Thanks again Mud, I'll let you know how it turns out
How does the bare aluminum hold up. Does it require a lot of maintenance to keep it looking good? Honestly, I don't wash my bike as much as some people do. If I have good weather, I'd rather ride.
Thanks again Mud, I'll let you know how it turns out
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Mud, Thanks for the quick response.
It does look like some work, but the finished product looks awesome.
How does the bare aluminum hold up.
Does it require a lot of maintenance to keep it looking good?
Honestly, I don't wash my bike as much as some people do.
If I have good weather, I'd rather ride.
Thanks again Mud, I'll let you know how it turns out
It does look like some work, but the finished product looks awesome.
How does the bare aluminum hold up.
Does it require a lot of maintenance to keep it looking good?
Honestly, I don't wash my bike as much as some people do.
If I have good weather, I'd rather ride.
Thanks again Mud, I'll let you know how it turns out
I wipe it down with Windex now and then.
I'm like you as for washing. Not all that often.
I like polished aluminum better than the chrome look,
even when tarnished a bit.
mud........
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i do the same thing the same way... only i use gasket remover to get the powder off... works just the same as the air craft stripper... you can also use fine steel wool and rubber gloves after the stripper starts to take up the paint to pull it all off... works great... if you use a clear that is a polyester powder after you polish them you can hardly tell it is there (gives the shine alot of depth) and it hardly takes any of the shine off... then you will not have to keep cleaning them all the time... the powder is great with UV so you will not get a yellowing in it either... that is if you are worried about your metal tarnishing... i have had many polished parts in the past every few weeks if you just clean them off hit them with metal polish and then wax them you will be golden! looks great mud... just did a TON of parts on my cafe build, swing arm, forks, engine side cases, brake drum stay, rear brake lever, and i am sure more will come... but if you powder them after you are done Dan be sure your coater uses a polyester powder, not a regular powder... it flows much better and will not dull down all the work you just put into polishing them up!
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