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Fuel tank guard... work in progress

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Jake:
Why not just get it Zinc coated?
Its not as dear as you'd think
 :D

Sharpshooter:
Thats looking good. I cant wait to see the finished article. :)

wizard:
They wanted £80 to zink plate it, as they have a minimum charge !!
If i had 6 to do it would still cost £80 to get them plated.

I thought the laquer would give it a bit of extra protection and make it look nice and shiny !!!.
I am gonna leave the guard in the main workshop next to the heater for a few days to help to Hammerite dry. Its to cold in my workshop at home.

I will post pix as soon as i get a chance.

regards
wizard

lee celtic:
Hammerite contains glass particals and takes 6 weeks to cure the only thing you can spray onto it is more hammerite and you can only do that withing 15 mins of the first coat any longer and it all goes pete tong best thing for cleaning it off is petrol.

Lesson over  :lol:

I only know this as we used to use smoothrite on our bike frames and engines, If you spilled petrol on it you had to strip the lot and start again and if you tried to to touch it up it went dull and rough like sandpaper.still it smells nice :lol:

wizard:
Finally i had the time to fit it. It took about 20 min to jack into place and bolt on the six mounting bolts.
I still need to make up the detatchable part, and some thick angled washers for the two bolts that go through the rear part of the chassis. Otherwise i am quite happy with it.

Just got to find the time to put the bumper back on !!!

regards
wizard

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