Prime time

I've got my bits back from the shot blasters and got a few coats on zinc primer on. The forks are spot on fortunately and the dram is much the way I expected to be, however I'm now in the market for a new swing arm as you can plainly see in the pics 

More fun.....

Well this morning has been interesting. Popped down to Denton auto after spending a couple of hours sanding and flatting the frame to get it ready for priming. "Great!" I think to myself as I leave the house "I'll just get Ant to have a quick look and make sure I'm ready to paint it, then I'll give a quick blast with the air line and get some tack cloths then we're off". Of course that would have been too easy. Ant spots a small crack on the down tube and gets his file out to discover it's been filled in at some point. So despite the fact I thought all was going well I'm back to square one. Time to stop messing about and get it shot blasted..... Oh what fun!!!! 

Tonight's effort

Had a little time to kill today as I finished early, so I took the time to sanded down the filler and get a couple of coats of primer underneath the wheel arch. 

A little Sunday tinker

Spent a few hours in the garage today and got the welds ground down. The surface rust treated and the first bit of filler aplied. Not a huge amount of progress bit never the less it is progress. 

It's been a while!

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It's been far too long since anything has gone on with joe but I've finally got the frame done! In the end I managed to scrounge an end piece off my mate Steve (cheers dude) and my other mate Neil B (cheers dude) did all of the welding for me at work. Sorry there are no during pictures but obviously I wasn't there to take any. Anyway just need to tidy the welds up now and the frame resto is done. Exciting times ahead!! 

Attacked the poor thing

Couple of hours in the garage left me with a nice big pile of parts

Rotten luck

This is the supposedly structural repair someone had done. As you can see the rust was pretty major