Bloody battery - Part 2

The Zephyr Zone people are really decent and helpful. It's not a bit
like here ;-)

 

Actually, I meant to say "not" exorbitantly priced. Compared to what my
studio compressor (SimAir) cost me years ago, they're almost giving em away
at MM. Based around a fridge type compressor (which a few people I know have
used for the starting point when making their own airbrush compressors),
they're pretty bullet proof and really quiet..


I've

I had an Aero 63, but as mentioned in another thread, I lent it to someone
"in need" and eventually had to buy myself a replacement. (I went with an
Olympus 200) as he let his kids get their hands on it and that resulted in
it being KIA.


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The fabric colours work well on cars/bikes too, but they take longer to dry.
Once they've been clear coated though, it matters not. The trouble with
clear coating is it destroys the flouro, or at least reduces its impact, but
to be fair, I don't use flouro very much. And I have to say "Thank ****" for
that coz it looks gash on cars/bikes.


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You mean they're *human* people over there?


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</Roger Moore mode>

raises eybrow

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I've never seen a 12v one, but that would be pretty handy.

Like everything these days that used to cost an arm and a leg, the Chinese
got involved and the prices fell through the floor. Granted that maybe their
items are't "quite" as high quality as some of the named players, but
they're generally good enough for the job and they cost so little, they're
almost cheap enough to be classed as a "Use once and dispose of"

I got an airbrush not long ago with all the features one would expect from a
top of the range item (dual action, airflow adjuster, fan shape adjuster, 3
different aircaps and needles and an airline) plus a parts list and
somewhere to order the parts from which rather surprisingly was real and
worked. 25 fucking quid and all shiny chrome plated solid brass.

I doubt you'd could buy the material to make one for that and it's faultless
in action too.

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Flip's are really "yesterday" though. I love 'em myself, but I've got an
excuse. I'm an old ****.

I still wouldn't use it on my bike though, but a company called "Rage" do a
great selection of "sort of" flips which don't change colour dramitcally,
they just change enough to make you think "Does that look better/brighter
from this angle" sort of thing. Not flashy or in your face, but very
effective. The chavs up here haven't cottoned onto them yet either.

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Indeed they are.
Up until last year 2 of the ZZ peeps organised a regular stand at the
annual Berkshire Triumph owners club rally.

This would comprise a couple of gazebos plus home made cakes and as
much tea as you could drink, superb hospitality and all very civilised.

Unfortunately it isn't going to happen any more as I understand the
Triumph people got a bit pissed orf with the Zephyr people gaining in
popularity at their event (I think we did 6 rallys on the trot). The
most Zephyrs we got in one go was (IIRC) 24.

Even though my Zephyr is long gone I still keep in touch woth the
Zephyr Zone people, and recently got tracked down by a new member who
has now acquired my old 1100. I sent him the old exhaust which I still
had languishing in the shed.

 

You'll need the paint that TVR used on the first flip painted cars. It's the
one that everyone knows and it's not *too* garish.

Rage is the way to go then.


http://www.totalconceptpaints.co.uk/rage.htm

Then there's "Outrageous"

http://www.totalconceptpaints.co.uk/rage.htm

I wouldn't bother with the Rage "Extreme" paints though as they're really
OTT and they cost a fucking arm and a leg. When we did our first flip paint
job, the paint cost 450 quid a *pint* and it's absolutely shite for
covering. You need a shed load so the cost gets a bit high.. It's a little
more reasonable now but it's still around 250 quid a litre. rage is a lot
cheaper and a lot less "Look at me" ITSWIM.

Example of the Cerbera we did. 4 litres of primer, 2 litres of hardner at 45
quid per litre mixed.
4 litres of groundcoat and 4 litres of thinners at roughly 40 quid per litre
mixed.
5 litres of flip, plus 2.5 litres of thinners at around 455 quid per litre
mixed
5 litres of clear, plus 2.5 litres of harners, plus 1/2 litre of thinners at
around 85 quid per litre mixed.

Not a cheap respray


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They'd feel a bit out of place here then

Not somewhere I've been for donkey's years (Berkshire)

I'm glad to see alcohol wasn't the main atraction.

that's a fair number and maybe Triumph felt threatened. Soft cunts.

I'd quite like a Zeph and even gone as far as looking a the Biketrader for
examples, but the two I went to look at were beyond the point where I'd
consider them. Unloved I could live with, but not totally neglected and then
put of for sale because the owners had an inflated idea of their worth.


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The venue was a rugby club, so proper bogs n everyfing.

The clubhouse does have a bar, but the free beverages offered at the ZZ
gazebo were a nice touch.

I reckon you may have a point. It started off a few years back as one
of the ZZ folks partners has a Triumph, so a few of us piled in and
made a small display of Zephyrs (1 bloke came 2 up on a 750 from Greece
FFS).
It sort of grew over the few years we did it. The last 2 I went to I
wasn't even on a Zephyr.

I loved my old Zephyr, it was like a big old leather sofa withn engine
strapped to it. I wish I could have kept it for high days and
holidays. The bloke who bought it off me apparently neglected it, but
the guy who now owns it is very enthusiastic about semi-restoring it.

When funds permit I would like to try and get a 2 tone, wire wheel 750
as they are the prettiest of the bunch (imho)

 

We get a yearly show oop 'ere of bikes from bygone times and that takes
place at a ruby club. Trouble is, it's always full of anoracks and the bogs
stink like they've never been cleaned.

Like my ex Harley owning pal who now goes to HOG meetings on a fucking
Beemer. It's made him think about getting another tractor though.

I hate when people neglect something they initially say they "love". It
happened to a friend of mine ho sold his R22 helicopter. He was promised
it'd be looked after like he'd looked after it, but he saw it a coule of
years after selling it and it was sat in an unloved part of the aerodrome
looking very sad and neglected. He was gutted.

Shouldn't use that "pretty" word


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