cb-77 restoration

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:05 am

Lee, mate, where's your sense of adventure(!)? Just mount a 3-mtr 15º up-ramp at the edge of the porch and fly it off the end, landing rear-wheel-first, Evel Knievel stylee!

Nice work with the heatshrink boots. One note of caution: invest in an electric heat gun. They're cheap enough and will scorch the cable much less than a blowtorch ~ in fact, not at all, if you're careful.

Great narratives, as always, Lee!!

clarenceada · Post by **clarenceada** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:58 pm

Lee, just got a chance to set and read your journal of all the hard work you have done on your bike and it gives another retired geezzer, me, the courage to go on with the battle of dismantling an old bike and do it with-out the proper tools. Congratulation on how good the bike looks. In one of the pictures the paint looks like it has metal flakes in it, is that right?
Clarence

jleewebb · Post by **jleewebb** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:57 pm

Very happy to inspire. Please let us know how your project goes. Silver and blue are closest matches we could get to Imron color codes widely posted here. I think silver (Mazda sunbeam silver) is a little more metallic/irridescent than original. Sparkles you see may be result of pixels in photo, try double clicking on photo, then zooming in to see if sparkles don't tone down a bit.

USPS screwed up delivery of my new carb so no ride 'til monday at least, darnit. Still learning patience. Thanks for your support. --Lee

LOUD MOUSE · Post by **LOUD MOUSE** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:50 am

I show USPS tried to deliver carb Friday. ............lm

jleewebb wrote:Very happy to inspire. Please let us know how your project goes. Silver and blue are closest matches we could get to Imron color codes widely posted here. I think silver (Mazda sunbeam silver) is a little more metallic/irridescent than original. Sparkles you see may be result of pixels in photo, try double clicking on photo, then zooming in to see if sparkles don't tone down a bit.

USPS screwed up delivery of my new carb so no ride 'til monday at least, darnit. Still learning patience. Thanks for your support. --Lee

jleewebb · Post by **jleewebb** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:42 am

That's what they say. If they tried to deliver they didn't try very hard, I was here. They say they left a notice, too, but I never saw one. Partly my fault, I assumed my regular carrier would bring it with rest of mail, but apparently they sent some dummy who's not familiar with my neighborhood. Postal Paul would have brought package up to house and checked out the bike while he was here. I should have checked online again when he didn't bring it Friday, but I just figured it got here too late to make it into his mailbag/minivan Friday morning. When I checked after it didn't come in regular mail Saturday, I got the bad news. That was at 2:25, darned P.O. closed at 2:30. Sigh. Never had this problem with UPS or Fedex. Oh, well, patience, patience. I got so mad I had to chug two beers and take a nap. Better now. I'll pick it up Monday. Thanks, Lee

jleewebb · Post by **jleewebb** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:17 pm

I don't have time to do a full update. Rode the bike yesterday and today, it goes like a scalded dog. Wonderful. First ride on any bike since 1980 at least, but it's all coming back. Thanks for your support, I just had to tell someone. --Lee

Spargett · Post by **Spargett** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:02 pm

Awesome. Very exciting. The second photo is my favorite.

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