Here are the re-vamped gauges. I am pretty proud of how they turned out. I opened them up cleaned them inside and out and lubed all the gears. I scanned the face plates into adobe illustrator and redrew them how I wanted. Then I printed them onto special super long lasting fade resistant paper. It took me a few tries to get them just the right size. I punched out the holes with a couple of different sized hole punches to get nice clean edges. I glued the finished product onto the old face plates with a spray on glue. Then all I had to do was reassemble using a dab of JB weld to hold the casing together where I had to cut it open.
This is what the gauges looked like before.
I have finished the diassembly on the rest of the bike and have to wait for my blast cabinet to arrive before I can do anything more. I have the whole bike in a small pile on my garage floor.
Is this the bike you were telling me about? the one you bought for $500? I'd love to see the rest of the bike.
ReplyDeletenope, this one was my Grandpa's. I was just going to rebuild the front end. . . but I got carried away. I finally gave up and decided that if I was going to do it, I might as well do it right.
ReplyDeleteHey girl,
ReplyDeleteI just bought a vtx 1300. e-mail me at artofpilates@lvcoxmail.com