What did you do with your 60 this weekend? (2 Viewers)

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2mountainfish said:
How did you get such clean lines on the white letters?
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By hand with a brush and paint. I was in a rush late at night. Heres a quick timelapse.
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Jasonredwood said:
Absolutely horrible. I dont recommend it to anyone doing such a large piece as the grill or deep as the headlight bezels.
Gave everything a good sanding.
Went to target and got a plastic bin that would hold everything and filled it with 4 or 5 gallons of clorox bleach.
I noticed a reaction immediately. 4 hours later I could no longer smell any bleach or see a reaction going on.
There was a decent amount of discoloring and some new flaking going on, plenty of black sediment.
Round 2 I decided to go get my bleach at the dollar store. 1/2 the price and seemed to be twice as strong. I dumped 6 gallons in.
I let it sit over night. There was still copper and chrome left all over the grill and bezels. It looked absolutely horrible.
So i figured why not go for round 3 and thats where most all the plating was removed. To get rid of all the bleach "properly" I took it to the local waist disposal place. The ENTIRE cargo area was filled with bleach containers.
After all that I spent an afternoon filling/gluing cracks and sanding by hand to even out the specs of copper left over.
Relatively so much time and $ spent to remove the chrome, my OCD set in and I didnt want to have to sand and paint in the future.
Probably wouldnt do it over again tho.
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Thanks for that. I think I will pass,lol.
 
Jasonredwood said:
Absolutely horrible. I dont recommend it to anyone doing such a large piece as the grill or deep as the headlight bezels.
Gave everything a good sanding.
Went to target and got a plastic bin that would hold everything and filled it with 4 or 5 gallons of clorox bleach.
I noticed a reaction immediately. 4 hours later I could no longer smell any bleach or see a reaction going on.
There was a decent amount of discoloring and some new flaking going on, plenty of black sediment.
Round 2 I decided to go get my bleach at the dollar store. 1/2 the price and seemed to be twice as strong. I dumped 6 gallons in.
I let it sit over night. There was still copper and chrome left all over the grill and bezels. It looked absolutely horrible.
So i figured why not go for round 3 and thats where most all the plating was removed. To get rid of all the bleach "properly" I took it to the local waist disposal place. The ENTIRE cargo area was filled with bleach containers.
After all that I spent an afternoon filling/gluing cracks and sanding by hand to even out the specs of copper left over.
Relatively so much time and $ spent to remove the chrome, my OCD set in and I didnt want to have to sand and paint in the future.
Probably wouldnt do it over again tho.
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By the looks of the photos you posted it payed off. Everything looks really nice. I’m a big fan if hammered paint. I even painted a guitar in hammered paint because I’m nuts.
 
cps432 said:
By the looks of the photos you posted it payed off. Everything looks really nice. I’m a big fan if hammered paint. I even painted a guitar in hammered paint because I’m nuts.
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Yeah Im happy how it turned out, so theres that. HA.
The door handles are next. The color and finish of the Matte Hammered is actually pretty close to the OEM euro spec rear view mirrors. Stoked on that as well.
 
Added OME full length d1xl and d2xl add a leafs. Raised me up 1.5"!

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pandasfj said:
Nice paint job, I really like that color. Did you have a lot of body work done? I'm looking for a good body shop to have some rust repairs done, would you recommend this shop? Thanks.
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Gray one has fair amount of rust around roof gusset arear.
Tan one very little rust typical cali cruiser.
I do owned a bodyshop in Fullerton.
As a matter of fact I just finished paint tan cruiser will upload pics tomorrow.
 
Tackling exhaust leak pulling manifolds. What a pita to remove “stuff” to get all out, but happy to see real evidence of what I believe could have been the source of clicking/pfft pffft pffft sound...

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Went out and rode some Florida trails today

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Drove the 60 to my dads.
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My dad and I worked for a friend today who’s been having well issues.
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Drive back from job along the Columbia River at the Portland Airport looking east toward a snow capped Mt. Hood.
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Awesome sunset drive home with some fresh snow yesterday on Hood.
 
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