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04-11-2008, 08:08 AM | #1 |
its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
Posts: 2,690
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Burb progress re-re-visited
Gotta love the weather we've been having. Gettin more done... but it's still slow going.
Had planned on messin with it yesterday, but my dad finally spent some cash on an old bike we've been screwin with, so that ment it was time for me to put forth some labor... like all afternoon and into the evening. But, with the rebuilt carbs, lined tank, new this and thats installed... it's running pretty decent. Still an old POS though. (82 nighthawk 650) OK On to important stuff. About 5 months ago, i picked this stuff up at jegs when I walked in there for some tune up stuff and valve cover gaskets. It is the lower priced stuff, but not the bottom of the line craptastic stuff. I wanna say I dropped a 50 on it, but I can't remember, and i can't find it in there catalog. I need another roll, so i may well find out tomorow. it cuts fairly easily, and is pretty easy to work with. Gotta have the shades on when working with reflective stuff in the sun. Besides... chicks dig it. Here's a big money piece that i kinda lucked into. I know this chick that came to me askin where to go to get her brakes done. I had no clue where to send her, and honistly, wanted nothing to do with it. I hardly have enough time as it is without adding one more job to do. So she calls me up in tears... she was holding a $700 estimate in her hand... for one caliper, one rotor, and a set of pads. I find my self in her garage the next day doing them. She wanted to pay me but I wasn't gonna let her. So then she said majic words. "So what kind of burb parts would you want for the job?" How about some carpet? In all reality, she over paid me on labor, but there was no markup on the parts, and i got her a discount on them... it came out to be right about what she woulda paid had she gone to a *real* shop and not an oil chainge place. I think we ordered too much too... but that's ok. I'm SURE I can put most of it to good use. Note... if you're gonna use sizzors... get good ones, not crappy junk ones from the junk drawer in the kitchen. So I got it to a general shape/size, then tossed it in the back, and started trimming where it needed trimmed I actually used a razor... and didn't bleed! |
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