OK OK....Time for honesty on my part!
WE painted the frame and I forgot to even prep the forks...."DOH" and double "DOH DOH!!!"
We'd ran out of paint too Grrrrrrr, (Deja Vu happening here)
I then as an absolute must had to go to sleep for work.....checked e-mails...Canned again, storms coming in!
So I raced back to the hardware store, grabbed some more purple and also found a lavender in small tube, this meant we didnt have to mix the pruple down to a lighter shade for the 2nd color, grabbed some more pouring medium as well.....Did I mention to get this type of paint job you actually pour the paint on and not brush or air! let it run abit to get coverage and then quickly splash the lighter color then ya grab the drop outs coz its being hung from the head tube by wire loop, and twist it about 30 times, let it go and let the paint throw and splash everywhere. we did this on the back lawn and we hose it off the grass afterwards!
These forks were easier as in...I can hold them by the top tube and pour with the other hand, they came out way better than the frame, much cleaner and neat!, these will look great with the clear tomorrow.
Note the light bracket too, Yes it has a dynamo!
So with no work I had time to set the stick shift and knob onto the gear selector!
I had to insert this small thumb selector into the steel stick I had made!
On the cardboard I have two small blobs of epoxy glue, the big blob is to be mixed with some carbon chop and will go inside the stick, the smaller blod will coat around the selector to hold it in good and tight when it gets pushed into the stick!
Here they are ready to be inserted together. See the carbon chop already inside the stick, im hoping as I pressure push the stick onto the thumb selector that the chop compress's a bit as it tapers smaller inside the stick itself, the small blob of glue will give adhesion around the thumb selector as well,
They pushed together well, and tight too, theres no play or movement within so im assuming tomorrow they'll be set for life....unlike me LOL!
The stick covers about 1.5" of the selector, its inside a good distance so theres plenty of room to chuck a couple small stainless bolts through it all too!
once thats done I can mask the gear selector bit, and mask the knob ,then paint the stick itsself...it was gonna be too hard to paint it first then try n fidgit about gluing everything together.
Came out great!...and you can see the clamp where I just slip it over the stand I made and tighten it when its time to rebuild.
