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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    haha, riveting stuff was it! Hopefully have it done this weekend, so will let you know if it was a good plan or not. Your ZZR still has the original mudguard anyway though dunnit? I had a bit more pressure to get one on, will still flick onto the exhaust a bit, but not onto the loom/battery/cdi with the hugger
    I don't think my ZZR has it's hugger? I thought only the 600 had them? I might go and look The exhaust will look manly and used in no time!


    Edit, no hugger, has the big fat ugly rear mud guard though
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    Ha...Thats true but life is full horrible choices sometimes Merv. Then sometimes just plain stuff happens... and then some more stuff happens.....




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    what did u use to cover the rear tyre?
    Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot

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    also there will be a shit load of sanding, and DO NOT do in it a painting booth... dust is the enemy of paint!!!
    Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot

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    Tin foil to cover the tyre, just sanded it off with a flap wheel on the angle grinder. I got some decent bog which makes it way easier to get a smooth surface and reduces sanding, also not caring so much about the bits you don't see reduces a lot too :P Just been sanding in the garden, made a hell of a mess with the flap wheel!
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    Probably a bit late but we used packing tape over any parts used as a quick and dirty mold.

    The binder that holds the fibres together in CSM doesn't dissolve as well with epoxy and leaves a milky finish. Polyester or vinylester is cheaper. CSM and its fibre binder was designed for it.
    If your building up layers use CSM, woven, CSM layers they are stronger that two layers of cloth (boat building fail). You can get woven with CSM on one side if your fancy. You can trim the job roughly with a knife before it sets fully.
    It stinks like car bog being almost the same stuff. CRC's marine bog is vinylester based and is used for plastic repair.

    Epoxy should be used with woven cloth and rolled untill its almost transparent.

    Shower bases and baths etc use polyester on the underside of the plastic with some pigment in the last layer. Probably just a 600 gsm and a 450 maybe some core mat on the flats.
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    mounted hugger





    Obviously not up to the standard as production composite stuff, but not bad for a first go I reckon.
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    That gives me the horn.

    Seriously.
    Quote Originally Posted by Paul in NZ View Post
    Ha...Thats true but life is full horrible choices sometimes Merv. Then sometimes just plain stuff happens... and then some more stuff happens.....




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    note to self, no fibreglassing when doug is around
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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    note to self, no fibreglassing when doug is around
    It'll be sweet, I'll cut a hole in my pocket...
    Quote Originally Posted by Paul in NZ View Post
    Ha...Thats true but life is full horrible choices sometimes Merv. Then sometimes just plain stuff happens... and then some more stuff happens.....




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    nice job, so what's next?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spearfish View Post
    nice job, so what's next?
    the cowl, which will be plastic on the outside re-enforced with fibreglass on the inside, hoping for easier sanding and less bog!
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    A little trick for difficult areas is to mix up a small amount of resin with glue powder, you brush resin over the areas your going to glass then cove a little of the mixed glue in any corners you know the glass will sit up (don't be to neat), place the glass and wet it out (if you don't pre wet it out) like normal. Just roll the glass into the glue mix like its resin.
    It stops any voids being left and softens the radius for the next layers.
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    bogan.... congrats!
    the hugger is awesome.
    incredibly well done considering it's a diy product...

    now, i'd like to steal the topic to ask if in your opinion it is possible to add a fairing (full or demi) to a street triple....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Urano View Post
    bogan.... congrats!
    the hugger is awesome.
    incredibly well done considering it's a diy product...

    now, i'd like to steal the topic to ask if in your opinion it is possible to add a fairing (full or demi) to a street triple....
    possible, but you'd need extreme patience (or CNC gear and patience) to get the mold right. Probably better to start with a smaller project to learn the ins and outs of it a bit like I did.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Urano View Post
    bogan.... congrats!
    the hugger is awesome.
    incredibly well done considering it's a diy product...

    now, i'd like to steal the topic to ask if in your opinion it is possible to add a fairing (full or demi) to a street triple....
    Yeah, trade it in on a 1050 Sprint
    Quote Originally Posted by Paul in NZ View Post
    Ha...Thats true but life is full horrible choices sometimes Merv. Then sometimes just plain stuff happens... and then some more stuff happens.....




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