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Rustoleum Appliance Epoxy is actually an enamel.

Rear drive (swing arm) is cleaned and painted. Frame ~80% primed. Had to finally order a new knotted wire wheel for the angle grinder. And ran a magnet nail finder over the drive to keep from picking a piece up in a tire.

Got about a third of the frame buzzed off and primed. Ran out of energy. Storming right now, but in a couple days may be clear and warm.

Rolled the engine (on a furniture dolly) outside and painted it. Hope to get weather tomorrow for cleaning up the frame and swingarm, and getting a coat of primer on them.

Mounted the new seat cover today. Then, put the seat in a big contractor bag and stored it away in the shed. It will be a while before the bike is ready for it.

SWMBO requested this today. The old 216 JD garden tractor has manual raise/lower for the 31" tiller, but the shoulder did fine.

I've striped the old seat cover off, sanded rust spots on the seat pan, and sprayed etching primer on the seat pan. Tomorrow the weather is supposed to be in the 60's, and I'll spray some black on it. Probably put the new cover on it this weekend.

Tractor startup was a good idea. Last week ended up plowing ~3" of snow off of our drive, the daughters (both ~1000 ft) and two neighbors' drives. Today, moved The Hunley to the hoarder's side of the basement which gave me a lot more room to work on Pete. A new set of plug caps came in, and...

Spent two days (well, maybe four hours total) cleaning the front wheel. Hope it is Ok to clean minor surface rust off of the cad platec spokes. Miced less than .01mm removed. The rim is DID. Also went out and started the tractor. Forecast for Friday is 3"-4", but that is a lot in these Southern...

Wire harness cleaned of road grime as well as the shelter frame and front upper engine mount tin. Also, had the final PT on my shoulder today. Should be good-to-go, although slowly as it gains strength.

All handlebar control lines and switches tested (a couple repaired). Also all of the idiot lights and gauge illumination (those that need brightness changed to LED). Replaced the decayed gauge mounting ring with layers of single-side closed-cell thin foam weather striping tape - 3 wraps. Gauge...

If concerned with original - paint. If concerned with snob appeal - powder coat. Either done properly will last well. Either done poorly will easily chip off. 2K being the best for paint, but I use Rustoleum Appliance with 2K clear over it.

Bought some long 1/2” shrink tubing from Harbor Freight (only place I could find a long piece and not have to buy 100 ft). Fed left control wires through it, cut to length, and shrunk it down. Rubbed down the tubing with talc to lube it. Then, snaked it into the left side of the new Emgo CB750...

Back at it! July 3rd the prostate was pulled. September 4th the AC joint was drilled and tied up. Been doing PT since. Today, ortho said I am free to lift carefully and work on the bike. Today, both the speedo and tach faces were renewed, plus the speedo lube thinned out for it to start working...

No, but it was pretty simple to grind off to the end of the taper. Make sure you keep it cooled well to prevent over-softening the steel.