Painting in wellington (Not flash)

**Eddieb** · 6th September 2004, 13:33

Originally Posted by Blakamin

How minor?
i actually hate glassing!

A 4-5 inch crack in 1 panel, a smaller crack in the other and rebuilding a couple of small (2cm 8 4cm) sections

**Blakamin** · 7th September 2004, 08:00

Originally Posted by Eddieb

A 4-5 inch crack in 1 panel, a smaller crack in the other and rebuilding a couple of small (2cm 8 4cm) sections

hmmmm.... how good do you want it?.... i take it you dont want to do the glassing yourself?

**Eddieb** · 8th September 2004, 09:47

Originally Posted by Blakamin

hmmmm.... how good do you want it?.... i take it you dont want to do the glassing yourself?

They are for my spare rear panels so outside needs to be pretty good, inside I'm not too worried about.

I wouldn't know where to start.

**F5 Dave** · 8th September 2004, 10:02

Spare rear panels? What the hell? Do you mean side covers? Heck just throw them away. Less is More when it comes to weight reduction.

Start the bike & keep taking things off the bike until it stops & put the last thing back on.

OK Tex was never into appearance, but don’t make the mistake of trying for concourse condition,

you’ll only ride scared you will scratch your bike.

Peel the Rage against the Machine stickers off the side of the tank. Give the whole bike a degrease & strip off anything it doesn’t need &/or replace it with lighter parts. If the fibreglass tail section is cracked then you will need to repair it & I can talk you through that. Then just a light sand & a quick blow of paint & it will look a thousand bucks (a million is out of the question).

**Eddieb** · 8th September 2004, 10:17

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

don’t make the mistake of trying for concourse condition,

you’ll only ride scared you will scratch your bike.

Peel the Rage against the Machine stickers off the side of the tank. Give the whole bike a degrease & strip off anything it doesn’t need &/or replace it with lighter parts. Then just a light sand & a quick blow of paint & it will look a thousand bucks (a million is out of the question).

These panels are actually for the 888 so I'd rather they looked pretty good on the outside. I use them when I'm taking luggage etc and was actually planning on leaving them on the bike full time and just putting the original ones back on if I ever sell it.

A light sand and quick blow of paint was all I was considering for the bucket. I know I'm bound to crash that as soon as i get comfortable on it and get too cocky thinking I can take someone on a corner.

**Blakamin** · 8th September 2004, 10:23

Originally Posted by Eddieb

These panels are actually for the 888 so I'd rather they looked pretty good on the outside. I use them when I'm taking luggage etc and was actually planning on leaving them on the bike full time and just putting the original ones back on if I ever sell it.

A light sand and quick blow of paint was all I was considering for the bucket. I know I'm bound to crash that as soon as i get comfortable on it and get too cocky thinking I can take someone on a corner.

I aint touching your 888 'glass!! I'm a spray-painter, not a panel beater!

i'll paint your bucket and the 888 fairings if someone else glasses them!

**F5 Dave** · 8th September 2004, 10:53

Ahh, in which case you want a reasonable job done then, try dropping them in at Carboglass, don’t know if they do that sort of thing but worth an ask or just look under fibreglass repairs in Y pgs.