Bendy toy
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Intruments were looking tatty with crummy hand painted black. But they are otherwise good and cleaned up well.
They don't come off the bike with one connector like the BMW. Every bulb or whatever has its own wires and the bulbs are well stuck into the back of the clocks.
The die cast mounting was paint stripped to bare metal then etch primed and painted.
For the clocks, I stripped the cruddy paint, then masked off the glass with sellotape. Also used it on the chrome trim around the clock base. A couple of coats of etch primer lightly rubbed down between gave a good prep. Now, I removed the tape from the chrome trim and sprayed with satin black. When dry the black rubs off the trim with a blunt flat screwdriver and thumbnail. It might have worked on the glass but I wasn't that brave.
Current job is cleaning the cast aluminium top triple clamp. It's solid but paint is chipped. Surprisingly NO CORROSION. BMW take note.
They don't come off the bike with one connector like the BMW. Every bulb or whatever has its own wires and the bulbs are well stuck into the back of the clocks.
The die cast mounting was paint stripped to bare metal then etch primed and painted.
For the clocks, I stripped the cruddy paint, then masked off the glass with sellotape. Also used it on the chrome trim around the clock base. A couple of coats of etch primer lightly rubbed down between gave a good prep. Now, I removed the tape from the chrome trim and sprayed with satin black. When dry the black rubs off the trim with a blunt flat screwdriver and thumbnail. It might have worked on the glass but I wasn't that brave.
Current job is cleaning the cast aluminium top triple clamp. It's solid but paint is chipped. Surprisingly NO CORROSION. BMW take note.