1975 Commando 850 restoration

Fast Eddie · May 10, 2020

Silver ‘Smootrite’ is good for this. Dunno if it’s available over there tho ?

Larry S · May 10, 2020

Fast Eddie said:
Silver ‘Smootrite’ is good for this. Dunno if it’s available over there tho ?

Thank you for the advice. Do you know if they have a website?

Fast Eddie · May 10, 2020

Sorry, bad recommendation on my part, it appears it’s not available in the US.

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We do not sell all our products in all countries, so please visit your local website and see which products are available in your country.

www.hammerite.com

Larry S · May 11, 2020

Just finished up cleaning and priming the switch clusters. I'll paint them tomorrow

Larry S · May 11, 2020

Fast Eddie said:
Sorry, bad recommendation on my part, it appears it’s not available in the US.

Countries

We do not sell all our products in all countries, so please visit your local website and see which products are available in your country.

www.hammerite.com

Thanks for trying to help out.

Larry S · May 16, 2020

Finally finished with the paint. The wifey-poo painted the white. I'm very pleased.

grandpaul · May 17, 2020

Hey, that's slick! Takes a steady hand...

Richard Tool · May 17, 2020

Nice job by the missus ! Can she cook too ?

Larry S · May 17, 2020

Before I reassemble these controls, should I hit them up with a clear coat?

850commando · May 17, 2020

the aluminum color looks good to me. if i may suggest; find someone local to you who has a sand/grit blasting cabinet, and stuff like the triple clamps could be blasted clean and then painted, yes more disassembly work but the final result will look better.

when i did the basket case rebuild all steel (i mean all) items were sand blasted, the frame went to a commercial sandblast and paint shop and came back with a coat of epoxy prime,

there is fun in the stripping (take lots of pictures) and fun in the reassembly..

Larry S · May 23, 2020

Disassembled my front end this week. It's no longer a roller. Cleaned up, primed and painted the speedo and tach. Looks pretty good to me. Before, primed and final result.

Larry S · May 23, 2020

Messed up posting pics but you all get the idea.

JOHNO23 · May 24, 2020

Looks a good job

Larry S · May 24, 2020

Nothing left to remove but the Z plates and last but not least, the side stand and spring? Lol!

grandpaul · May 25, 2020

Remove bottom end, transmission, wiring harness, extract swingarm spindle from cradle, pull and inspect isolastics, etc. Depending on how badly the rear iso bolt is frozen you could have a week to go yet...

cjandme · May 25, 2020

grandpaul said:
Remove bottom end, transmission, wiring harness, extract swingarm spindle from cradle, pull and inspect isolastics, etc. Depending on how badly the rear iso bolt is frozen you could have a week to go yet...

G.P. you killjoy...Larry was stoked about thinking he had only the "Z" plates and side stand

...just kidding, but...Iso's are probably shot. Lookin' Good though ,Cj

alan hodge · May 25, 2020

excellent job on the instru-mints

cliffa · May 25, 2020

Larry, great job. Did you paint the clock bezels? if so what with, they look really good.

Larry S · May 25, 2020

grandpaul said:
Remove bottom end, transmission, wiring harness, extract swingarm spindle from cradle, pull and inspect isolastics, etc. Depending on how badly the rear iso bolt is frozen you could have a week to go yet...

Thanks for the advice. When I started this project I really didn’t know how far I was going to go with it. I really didn’t know what I was getting into with this but the farther along I go the more I want to do. I’m having a blast with this rebuild!
That said, my plan at the moment is to leave the bottom end and trans in the frame, remove the wiring harness and clean/paint the frame. After that I plan to replace the rear iso, install the pistons, rings, cylinder, the head and head steady. Next will be the front iso. After that the layshaft bearing and some clutch work plus general inspection of all the other innards.

Larry S · May 25, 2020

cliffa said:
Larry, great job. Did you paint the clock bezels? if so what with, they look really good.

Thank you for the compliment! Yes I did paint the bezels. I used Rustoleum chrome paint.

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