Seven Fifty cafe-racer. Aluminum polishing: ready.

And here are photos of polished parts, as I promised. In real life they look a bit less impressive, but to be honest, I don’t satisfied for all 100% only with sprocket cover and clutch…
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And here are photos of polished parts, as I promised. In real life they look a bit less impressive, but to be honest, I don’t satisfied for all 100% only with sprocket cover and clutch…
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What could be said about polishing? It is 90% surface preparation and only 10% polishing itself. A couple of delta sanders and Dremel are very useful during surface sandpapering, but always a lot of work…
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The weather grew steadily snowy and cold in the first days of spring. So last Saturday morning I found my garage looking more epic than I left it on Thursday evening. Sure, the look of…
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One more stage of my Honda CB750 cafe-racer project is finished. This very morning I took most chassis parts ready from paint shop. The only parts that weren’t ready today are the outer fork tubes,…
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So, frame was given into paint shop, thus I had to prepare last portion of parts for painting as well as for polishing. These were mostly aluminum chassis’ parts, only few steel details were between…
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After I finished all works on frame, I had to clean it out and protect all treads, swingarm axle’ mounts and steering head before giving it out for sandblasting. The best way to clean frame…
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This very midday I had to give the frame of my CD750 Seven Fifty cafe-racer project to paint shop. Surely, frame should have been sandblasted before that. But last few days the weather in Kiev…
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In my previous post about Honda CB750 cafe-racer project I mentioned that I had to do some works with frame, therefore this part of the story is about these works. Sure, all that was done…
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For those who read previous part it could seem that processes of cafe-racer footpegs design and manufacturing were easy, but as one may guess from complexity of system it was not so. I started form…
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