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Old 02-22-2015, 10:07 AM   #20
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Re: Yamaha YZR500 '83

Thanks Christophe, glad you're enjoying it. I've spent enough time looking at other builds on this forum, hopefully I can give something back with this WIP.

I've been working on the exhaust silencers. I spayed the part semi-gloss black and then masked 2mm at each end of the main barrel, painted silver by hand on the end and then coated the whole part with Jonson Klear. Once dried I removed the tape, this gave a slight difference in sheen where the tape was. I then placed 1.3mm round bolt heads from a Top Studio P.E. set using PVA (white) glue. Using PVA allowed me to move the bolt heads more easily than superglue, and clean up is easy. The bolt heads sat a little proud for my liking so I again coated the whole part in Klear, softening the definition.

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