Hello, I'm Back

[LIAW]

just saying hello again as I haven't been here for um maybe 15 years, I don't have a TDM at the moment but my old one is coming home soon, the 'prowler' will be back on the streets

[Studley Ramrod]

Woohoo 👍 Good to see you back and looking forward to see how you get on with the Prowler.

[Trevini]

Some of us are still here - welcome home :-)

[LAURENCEAUX]

Welcome back recycled members always welcomed. The site has been quite technical of late but very interesting.

[LIAW]

great stuff, all these names to remember again, I even had to wonder who I was, I still don't recognise me

[Robodene]

I joined about the time you signed out. Hard to believe that was 15 years ago. Welcome back.

This post was last modified: 25-10-2024, 05:24 PM by Robodene.

[dapleb]

Yohoooo LIAW.

[leehenty]

Some of us got smitten and are unable to leave. Have I really had the same bike 17 years ?

[LIAW]

great to 'see' you all and that some have had their bikes a long time, while I haven't had 'mine' consistently it has been family owned, it hopefully returns to me on Friday,

I will wash it and take it out for a good ride to assess what it might need other than cosmetics,

I now have a replacement fuel tank and top yoke, new headlights and horns, I also have most of the paint except engine paint, not sure what to do with that yet as the engine cases have deep grazes to fill 

[Studley Ramrod]

Must be a solution on pootoob, shirley ?

[LIAW]

haven't looked on there yet, I'll fill the cases with chemical metal and if I can't create a similar bronze colour then I'll paint the whole engine black

[leehenty]

Tig weld and sand back ?

[LIAW]

Tig weld and sand back ?

 

that would work but I only have a mig welder, I have used chemical metal to stick engine logo's on in the past with no trouble so it should be ok as a filler, the other option is to look for unwanted engine cases,

hopefully I'll know more tomorrow as the bike should be coming home  :clapping:

[dapleb]

I may have an unwanted enjun case LIAW. Lettuce snow what juan.

[leehenty]

You can mig weld aluminium with a spool gun and pure argon as the shielding gas it needs to be perfectly clean though

[LIAW]

well it's home now, there is a lot to do to get it to top condition again, it's the 2 right hand engine cases that are damaged but should be ok with filling and painting, the hardest thing to fix will be the scraping on the stainless 'logo' on the exhaust, I'll start another thread on the 'all about TDM' bit