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Thank you guys and gals - I do dip in now and again, but life keeps getting in the way...

Results time - I'm a simple bloke, and this just hit the spot for me - over (back) to you MJ :thumb: :D

Any more guys - let's "av em" :thumb:

Well, thank you MJ - my first CC win for some years - happy days :thumb: Let's see what the panel makes of this...

"YSL - parfum de MB"

Thanks guys and gal - a fab day with the famalam, cake, and lockdown :cool:

A bit more done - I'm pleased with the plastics as I've never sprayed plastic from a rattle can, but I was told about adhesion promoter as a pre paint treatment and it certainly works.

A bit of cleaning, a touch of spray paint and a few new zinc plated panheads/washers - making today a productive downtime day. The rubber mounting grommets will be replaced soon enough.

And I had the cush drives removed by an old boy in a machine shop - they are a bugger to get out as they are in a blind hole - so he tapped them, made a shoulder and withdrew them with a bolt - before I found out they are hard to find and/or expensive :crazy:, but luckily a request on the RD...

Over the last few days I've replaced the wheel bearings, seals and dust covers and ordered parts that are either single use only, like locking tab washers, or parts that are just too far gone to restore -15 years outside has taken it's toll :( My previously multi-coloured wheels are taking...

It's not as quick as it looks :D The "previous" photos are from last year before I stripped it and sent it away for powder etc. The "new" photo is from this week, where I began the rebuilt - and I'm now finding there are quite a few small parts missing, where the previous owner had fitted clip...

So, here we go - powdered frame and swing arm, re-chromed/rebuilt forks and pattern shocks - it's a start :thumb:

A have a Gamma tale of woe - it pains me to this day :( In the late 90's I bought an RG500 Gamma - a mint example in Pepsi colours, with 3000 miles, for £3K - for reasons I can't really explain I hardly ever rode it and a year later I sold it for the same £3K Roll forward to 2018 and I was...

Let me know if this works please - a start up shortly after I collected it - new battery, plugs, points cleaned...