1981 GS450E Rebuild

[Leigh]

Don't you just love having to take 5 steps back?

[oohsam]

Its all too common in my world.

[Leigh]

Mate, i've done it so often it looks like I'm line-dancing.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Glad I'm not the ONLY one... they say misery loves company

[pete]

Nice work my man.
I like that GS logo on your measuring board thing...maybe you could incorporate that into your paint job

Is it just me, or do you love the smell of body filler. Makes me feel good, dunno why, everytime I smell it, it takes me back!
I was gonna suggest not using putty, but I was too late, glad you got rid of it. I use this metalic body filler, its looks like a liquid metal mesh paste, very weird, but awesome to work with. Anywho...good work!

Cheers mate, hopefully I'm on top of it now!

I didn't even see that logo... haha... that's the portable work bench...

I've got some fibreglass reinforced stuff to go on because it's going over fibreglass and I figured the metal reinforced one would be a little bit over the top in this case.

Mate, i've done it so often it looks like I'm line-dancing.

Steady on Leigh, there'll be no line dancing in this thread! That includes the music that goes with it...

And yeah... I just *love* undoing what I spent hours doing...

Glad I'm not the ONLY one... they say misery loves company

Hahaha yeah, lots of company here me thinks...

[pete]

Ok, here's the tail piece after a very short amount of time on it yesterday, and the grab rail is just sitting there for the moment:



I picked up the foam for my seat as well as some other supplies:



Hopefully that fine line masking tape and the masking paper solves my masking and bleeding worries for the stripes.

If I get done what I want to get done today at the very least I should have clean guns and a nicely shaped, smooth tail piece.

I'd like to get 5 minutes to pop the foam on the seat pan and see how it feels too...

[Woodsy]

Pete the blue tape is okay, i used it on my helmet but still got some bleeding in areas as the tape is not curvable, if you have to curve it etc best to get the green one.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Fingers crossed for you Pete!

[oohsam]

ive used the blue tape a few times, never leaked for me. good luck!

[Flyboy]

Yeah, pete, you shouldn't have any dramas with it, it is the same as the green stuff, the ony diffirence is the width, the blue stuff is 6mm and the green stuff is 3mm, so better for compound curves and corners, but in your case, that ain't a problem, your lines are all straight, pretty much.

[oohsam]

Or, you atleast hope they are straight.!!!

[pete]

Cheers guys, appreciate the input!

All the lines will be straight so no dramas there.

I got plenty of tips in the paint thread to help prevent bleeding so I'm pretty confident that'll be safely sorted.

I'm not so confident in the rest but that's a different story...

Here's a tip when working with body filler:

Use scales that can actually measure what you need to measure.

50:1 is not the same as 150:1....

[Leigh]

Use scales that can actually measure what you need to measure.

50:1 is not the same as 150:1....

That probably explains why my 2 stroke whipper snipper no longer runs.

this thread is teaching me patience, Pete.
I check it out daily to see what you've done and I know you have to take your time but I'm itching to see what it turns out like.

[pete]

That probably explains why my 2 stroke whipper snipper no longer runs.

this thread is teaching me patience, Pete.
I check it out daily to see what you've done and I know you have to take your time but I'm itching to see what it turns out like.

Ha... glad I'm teaching something other than how to screw it up

Exactly one week to get that tail piece in shape, should be interesting...

[Ricko19]

Great reading Pete - keep up the great work Where did you end up getting your mirrors from?