A local paint shop sold me a spray can with black high temperature paint. They told me it was matte, but it was so matt I had to go back and ask them for a clear coat to have on top, just so the caliper would look somewhat like before. A total waste of time! [...]

I decided to change the liquid I had in my parts washer with White Spirit, Mineral Spirit in USA. I am glad I did. White spirit is so much better as a cleaning fluid than the environmentally friendly organic degreaser fluid I had been using so far. I just have to tolerate the smell and [...]

This is one caliper after glass blasting, some scuff marks was suddenly more visible. Some surfaces has been masked for painting. Just going to wipe it off with spirits before paint. Glass blasting was very fun, it was very effective at removing paint, but the metal was not pitted or anything like that. Even blowing [...]

Replaced the sand in the sand blasting cabinet today. This time I filled it with glass sand, that is small glass pellets. For blasting aluminium, sand would dig pits in the soft metal, glass however is said not to. In the picture you see my brother blowing the last bits of sand out of the [...]

Had to hoist the motor up to get to the drain plug. The construction of my jack that I had the motor on, made it impossible to get to the drain plug while on the jack. The oil was dark but not very bad. The freshly painted frame can be seen in the back against [...]

The order from Autosol in Germany finally arrived. It consists of aluminium cleaner, aluminium protective oil and aluminium polish. I will use the polish during restoration and the rest is for after I’m finished, to protect my investment.

Drove up to Fauske to get the frame that had been powder coated at IL-AS. A quick cuality check revealed only one flaw in the paint and one error they made when masking the frame. The flaw is that some fluid has been left on the frame before covering it with powder, causing a small [...]

I was looking through my photo albums one day and found this photograph from the summer of 1996. The colors are a bit wrong but it is nice and shiny. This was back in the days I was still using the bike for trips and therefore has mountings for luggage mounted on it.

The new mirrors has arrived, they are exact replicas of the original mirrors. I got these cheapest from Bitzforbikes in england.

Cleaned the brake disks. The only thing I will do to these is to make the black areas shinier.