A CL72 Project Starting To Move

Ray Smith · Post by **Ray Smith** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 8:37 pm

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/

Ray Smith · Post by **Ray Smith** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:10 pm

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.

primer63 · Post by **primer63** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:36 pm

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!

Ray Smith · Post by **Ray Smith** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:03 pm

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.

Ray Smith · Post by **Ray Smith** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:15 pm

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.