Gixxus Christ!

My rough template sitting on the sheet I rolled out. Thickness is around 3/16 to 1/4 inch. Template looks like a screaming dick. Still need to transfer hole locations for the ball sack from an earlier template. Hoping to have this worked out, bent, painted and mounted this weekend.

Polymorph, or plastimake or the other dozens of names it's sold under is a thermoplastic that melts to the consistency of silly putty around 190°f and cools at room temperature to about the same hardness as solid vinyl. it's easily purchased on the net and comes in a granular form. I split a kilo with a fellow bike builder and tinkerer a while back, played around with it and set it aside until a project begging for a plastic solution presented itself. That time has come. I stripped the stock clocks off my cb750 build to make room for this custom gauge I got off ebay. Round body, analog tach with a digital insert showing speed, fuel level, odometer etc with dummy lights inset in the gauge face. There is no mounting bracket that exists for this gauge.. Tonight I spent half an hour with some postr board, a set of calipers, a pen and my pocket knife and made a rough template of the mounting bracket I need. I then heated up a big wad of this polymorph and rolled it out to a somewhat uniform thickness between sheets of wax paper. If tomorrow goes well I will have transferred the template onto the plastic and roughed out the basic shape And drilled bolt holes. I'll update this thread as I go with pics. Hopefully my end result will be an attractive custom gauge braket with an integrated red LED oil light since the gauge does not have one of its own. Stay tuned....

I don't see why they wouldn't want the business. Why is honosexuality so threatening to these fundamental christians? if you're in the business of selling pizza, sell it to everyone.

Yeah rode it home from my dad's pole barn and took it around town a few times and to home depot. Still have some odds and ends to do in the maintenance dept but the honda is sucking up all my free time.

From what I've seen you create a barrier between the foam and the resin with masking tape and wax so the resin doesn't interact with the foam.

Never worked with the stuff. Seems easy enough tho, I'd like to make a cowl for my cb750 and it appears I just need to build a mold from foam and glass over it. What I'm wondering is what are quality materials to work with and how do I get them? Glass? Resin? Gel coat? I'd rather not have to do this twice So hit me!

Lol... me, Hayes hornish and Jason Dolan used to drink 30 packs of that horse piss in the woods back in the day....absolutely horrible stuff.

Stock fridge with natty light and genny cream ale, check.

If you get drunk just leave it in my garage And have the wife come get ya Or hell, stumble home it's only 5 blocks.

Agreed. You gonna bring the gs down? I might have the honda running and rideable by then..

Forecast now says 62 and sunny! Looks like it's gonna be a good day.

Nope.

Unless it looks like a ww1 german infantry helmet the cop will probably assume it's DOT

Never got why people think you need to specialize in Buell or harley to work on them. It's all the same shit. Motor, electronics, suspension, final drive...there are subtle differences but they all work the same and mostly come apart the same. I've never had the head off a kawasaki before but I know it's gonna be pretty much exactly like a honda or suzuki or yamaha. Not saying anything against pauly, he's a great mechanic. I just don't understand why some people think their bike is so different than the rest.

'We aren't liable, so we could tell you to get fucked but we are going to fix it anyway because (?)'. They are absolutely responsible and as stated above should be blowing you and baking you cookies. Shops have insurance and bonds to make sure accidents like this don't bankrupt them.

If I could street this I'd be all over it.

Definitely vet their painter. When fixing their own fuck ups I expect a business to use the cheapest help they can find.

Pauly is a solid mechanic. I have zero experience with Buell but I can take a swing at it.

Can't edit first post. Read through thread, daten time as address are in it.

I think I'll just be a Hindu instead....

Shark bite. Never even heard of them before. Just shove a pipe in either end and they stay and don't leak. Cost twice as much as a regular ball valve but saved me the trouble and aggrivation of soldering them in above my head.

Brian, do it. Scott, hope the dog has a good checkup. I rode all the way to home depot for solder and Flux so I can fix a leaky joint that refuses to take solder. Guess what? It's still fucking leaking.

Ok reverend. How much to save me from eternal fire and pineapples up my ass?

Lol yes, then I'll stop by the church where grown men speak gibberish and heal me with faith.

I'll have to bring that up with my homeopath the next time I see him.