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I'm pretty sure I've collected all of the painted parts for the bike so it's off the the powder coater next week. I tried to embed a flickr image. I hope it works.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25449744@N06/11487745533/

Okay, I took all 23 of the painted parts to the local powder coaters yesterday. They misplaced some parts on a CB750 before, so I made the attached pictorial guide to the parts. (Of course I promptly forgot to bring it when the time came-dang). The weird thing is, the guy swears many of the parts like the frame, center stand and swing arm had been powder coated before from the factory. When I told him I doubted that since this bike originated from the early 1960's, he said powder coating has been around since the 1930's. He tested the parts using a method of cross hatched scratches. The bottom line is, they will have to chemically strip the paint from many of the parts which will cost me an additional $150 as well as increase the chance of something getting lost. Every other bike I have restored had mostly black parts and so I was able to do much of the small-part powder coating at home. BTW, the color I picked was Vermillion.

Ray, if you are always that meticulous about documentation, you have the potential for a sell-able reference e-book on your bike. Keep up the great work!

Thanks primer63. Just as an update, I got the parts back from the powder coaters. The good news is they didn't lose anything. The bad news is the job they did was only fair. Oh we'll, at least the project is moving forward.

I installed new bronze swingarm bushings today using a home-built "press". I got the idea from this site but I can't remember from whom, so, whoever it was, I thank you because it worked perfectly.

Nice work!

Did you buy those bushes or have them made? I'm restoring a CL77 swing arm and it has steel bushes.

G

Thanks G-Man,
I got the bushings from Ohio Cycle. (www.ohiocycle.com). They were $11 each.
Ray