OK All: Here is the latest instalment on the Special to Cafe build.
I have finally figured out how to shorten the video I shot so that it is smaller than 49 MB (yeah, I know - every 13 year old kid in Pakistan knows how to do that....) - now I will have to figure out how to post the shortened video of the tank tumbler to YouTube (yeah....I know....). The machine doesn't revolve very fast - and so the action is pretty gentle. One CVMG member tells me that he uses roofing nails when he does this job because the sharp ends on the nails help bust-up any rust or other nasties in the bowels of the tank.
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The only other work I've done was to give a good spray of WD40 into the tank and then I fitted my shiny new fuel filler cap to the cleaned-up XS750 tank (
MikesXS / XSDirect p/n 20-0033) to seal the tank until I can get the mounting arrangements worked out and the tank painted. I just left the little sealing plates from the tumbler operation on the petcock holes - but, as mentioned, I do have the new petcocks (
MikesXS / XSDirect p/n 20-0019).
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Cheers,
Pete