Thursday 27 October 2011

The first shiny thing arrives

A new set of exhaust nuts came through the post surprisingly quickly from Italy.
It's the first thing I've 'fixed', only the rest of the bike to go now.


I've also decided to attempt a repair on the tank badges and side panel logos, these were very tatty and I would normally just replace them, however, they are an eye watering £58 per pair for each badge, that's £116 for four bits of plastic.

I have cleaned them and rebuilt the broken piece using parts of a sprue holding a model kit.
This may not work or look convincing when finished as I haven't yet found a decent coating to replicate the chrome but it's worth a try just due to the costs of the replacement parts.



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