Re: Salt City Cafe Build 1970 CB750
Update time!
Been doing a lot of waiting for parts and working on my seat so here is where I am at the moment.
First off as you saw I got my seat all shaped so now its time to fiberglass. As everyone knows you always end up with a gap between the seat and the tank. I have seen a few ways of filling this gap but this is what I came up with and it worked out pretty well.
Here is the gap.
First I put some plastic wrap over the tank to keep the goo off it. You will see why in a sec.
This is what I will be filling the gap with
Then I realize that the can is to old and had to go buy a new one.
And the gap is filled! Now it will follow the contour of the tank exactly.
I forgot to get a picture of it after it was dried and carved up. One thing I noticed is you might have to go back and fill some of the air pockets that get created to make a more solid piece but here it is wrapped in tape.
Then I decided to use some Cat5 cable to make an indentation for the seat pan to rest.
All taped up
Now its time for fiberglass.
Luckily we just happened to have a bunch of fiberglass laying around
I didn't get any pictures of the process because as anyone who has done fiberglass knows once you get started you can't stop and its damn messy. So Here is a pic of it all glassed up.
Yeah like I said messy
One tip here is to use contact cement on your whole seat foam before you tape it. I had issues with the tape pulling away from the foam and causing the fiberglass to not be flat. Second tip here is to not get to crazy with the wax. I think I overdid it and I had issues getting the fiberglass to push down in tight around the rib I made for the seat pan. It might have been that the cloth I was using was to heavy as well I'm not exactly sure.
Also before I glassed the seat I pulled it outside and did a little mock up to see how things look.
I am digging it!
So that's all for now I am gonna be pushing this week for the machinist at work to finish my front wheel parts so that I can get it put together and hopefully get this thing rolling in the next few weeks.