This is all being done with medium glass bead, which is why it is taking forever. All I seem to be able to get around here at a reasonable price is coal slag and glass bead. I had planned on paying someone to do it, but couldn't find anyone local that wanted the work.

 

Bwaaaaahhaaa, some curing room.
(you didn't ask permission from her to use the oven???)

 

Yeah, tough to find a clean spot in the garages - so paint stuff winds up in my office once it off gasses enough in the paint tent.

Did some more blasting today, should have one more session some time this week and I'll be all done.

 

Painted all that I could. Tomorrow the stuff goes inside to cure and the stuff that is left gets primed. Need to get all the paint done in next few weeks before wife's car comes in for the winter.

 

In Porche's defense, the paint looks 5 times better on the sports car.

No offense ment, your project looks great.

Ride frugal

 

Baby brother to the baby dream. LoL. Ca 110. Same goofy front fork. Little 50 cc push rod engine .

 

Wife got sick so nothing to do but work in shop.

 

Started working on the seat. I dislike trampoline seats, so started building a HDPE base for a foam seat. Lots of drilling and pop rivets.

 

 

Not my favourite thing.... I took some aluminum parts to a local bead blaster guy.... he dry blasts with sand first, if you're going to paint. Very uniform. If you want smoother, he glass bead blasts. Has a couple of grits of glass, finer if you want to polish after. However, still have to hand sand before polishing. I took my forks and simply sanded them myself to get the old clearcoat off.
Have you heard of laser cleaning? I just found out about this yesterday.... of interest anyway..... better for cleaning engine fins, etc.

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That is nothing like the CA95 suspension.

 

These are Dreams - not baby Dream like mine - but not a fan

 

Side/side note. That blue picture with what looks like a misaligned fender shows you how the goofy suspension works.

 

What no runs,orange peel or fish eyes ? Just kidding she is looking good in blue !

 

Couple little runs on front fender, otherwise pretty good.

 

You gave me a flashback with Rolling Rock. Used to be the go-to - back in the day lol.

 

I'm so old skool I used J C Whitney for tires and batteries back then .

 

Spotted this at a bike shop in Marietta Ohio on our trip to Odd WV. Don't see many with the extra chrome trim. Even then there were H-D wannabe's. LoL

 

I love it when I find other like-minded people who have the courage and the dedication required (the sickness, as you called it, Oldjeep) to save these old bikes from the scrap heap.

 

Need something to do in the evenings, only so much beer one can drink

 

I have watched a couple videos of lacing wheels which simplifies it. I dunno about the art and science, didn't seem too bad to me... I have an upcoming project, lol.......

 

I just copied one of the other 6 I had. I used to lace and true wheels when I raced BMX until I got smart and switched to skyway mags.

 

Many moons since I've tore into them that deep. I'm a sucker for the old Honda's. I use to use Mazda gray for the crankcase and other parts. Looks good.

 

My bad Mazda silver.

 

Not sure if it applied to all, but I think the proper colour is Honda Cloud Silver for engine paint. You can buy it, and Duplicolour DE 1615 is a match. My info from the guys at SOHC4.net

 

Previous Yami motorcycle had a painted radiator. When the paint on the spigots for the hose connections started degrade, it resulted with black debris/flakes/whatever in the overflow tank. Much later it developed an untraceable slow leak. That bike had a tiny reservoir so it didn't take much to empty it. One day I dismounted at work and saw a puddle beneath the front of the bike. "Great!" I thought... because now the leak would be easy to find. That's when I saw it coming from the hose connection. Sanded off the paint on the rest of the spigots too, as preventative.

Bottom line is, if you radiator is painted, sand it off for your hose connections.

For the next generation, Yami quit painting them.

 

Previous Yami motorcycle had a painted radiator. When the paint on the spigots for the hose connections started degrade, it resulted with black debris/flakes/whatever in the overflow tank. Much later it developed an untraceable slow leak. That bike had a tiny reservoir so it didn't take much to empty it. One day I dismounted at work and saw a puddle beneath the front of the bike. "Great!" I thought... because now the leak would be easy to find. That's when I saw it coming from the hose connection. Sanded off the paint on the rest of the spigots too, as preventative.

Bottom line is, if you radiator is painted, sand it off for your hose connections.

For the next generation, Yami quit painting them.

If I find a radiator on this bike, I will check it carefully 😜

 

If you have a water-cooled Honda CA 305 dream I'll kiss your ass !!

 

This one is a CA95 - but yeah. Kids

 

It's just me, but for that much frame, I'd consider powder coating. One and done. Just be sure to mask off inside any holes where things go through, or bearings are mounted.
Looking good do far!

 

Paint is all bought, and powder coating the 2 dozen parts that need to be painted would be extremely expensive.

Put a couple coats of surfacing primer on yesterday, now it can sit and cure for a week while I work on sandblasting all the other parts.