Hey everybody,
I recently wrecked my bike and did a decent amount of damage. Originally I was considering just buying new fairings but after looking through some of these forum postings, I'm considering attempting to repair the damage and do a new paint job. Figure I might as well kinda customize my bike while putting all this money into it(and after seeing the prices of new fairings). I read through the manual http://katriders.com/vb/showthread.php?t=77439 and it seems like this would be a nice summer project for me. Before I go on, here are some pictures of the damage.
So a few questions I have:
1)Which epoxy do you think would be best for this type of job? It seems like my choices consist of pastix, Versa Chem epoxy, Permatex 84115 PermaPoxy 5 minute plastic weld, and ABS epoxy.
2) I might have missed it in the reading, but how do you go about making a new tab(as seen in that last picture)
3) should I use a Drimel tool to cut some of the preassure off of the large crack before attempting to use epoxy to fill it?
4) Should just a filler primer w/ sanding be used to smoth out the road rash? or should I use epoxy?
I'm sure I'll think of more questions, and sorry for having so many already. Basically I have no experience with plastic repair (I bet you could tell ) but I've been trying to read up a bunch these past few days. Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance!
I recently wrecked my bike and did a decent amount of damage. Originally I was considering just buying new fairings but after looking through some of these forum postings, I'm considering attempting to repair the damage and do a new paint job. Figure I might as well kinda customize my bike while putting all this money into it(and after seeing the prices of new fairings). I read through the manual http://katriders.com/vb/showthread.php?t=77439 and it seems like this would be a nice summer project for me. Before I go on, here are some pictures of the damage.
So a few questions I have:
1)Which epoxy do you think would be best for this type of job? It seems like my choices consist of pastix, Versa Chem epoxy, Permatex 84115 PermaPoxy 5 minute plastic weld, and ABS epoxy.
2) I might have missed it in the reading, but how do you go about making a new tab(as seen in that last picture)
3) should I use a Drimel tool to cut some of the preassure off of the large crack before attempting to use epoxy to fill it?
4) Should just a filler primer w/ sanding be used to smoth out the road rash? or should I use epoxy?
I'm sure I'll think of more questions, and sorry for having so many already. Basically I have no experience with plastic repair (I bet you could tell ) but I've been trying to read up a bunch these past few days. Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance!
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