Still haven't done much to the bike, but I was messing around with the clutch cover over the summer in between working on the Hauler and everything else. I've been looking for a long cover for a while now with no luck, so I decided to try to make my own. I started with a NOS med length one:
A while back I bought a chrome dress up kit for a semi tractor. Basically it was strips of mirror polished stainless steel, about seven inches wide and VERY thin (about as thick as a beer can or two) with a 3M double sided tape on the back. My plan was to make an extension and slap it on.
Wit some measurements I made a quick pattern:
Transferred the pattern to the stainless and since I don't have a brake I clamped it to my press with a piece of 1" square tube. I figured it would help spread the load for a nice clean bend.
Using a 3' level I carefully bent the stainless to a nice sharp 90 degree. That I was happy with, until I un clamped it and and there was a sharp crease along the top edge, the whole length. Turns out the 1" tube wasn't wide enough and it when I bent the front the back side lifted:doah:
luckilly the stainless was wide enough for two patterns so I flipped it over and tried again with a wider piece clamped to the top.
Carefully trimmed it out, then bent the front curl by wrapping it around a small coffee can. When I drilled out the slot on the back edge, the bit slipped and walked a little making the slot look like total crap. This stainless is real thin and a total pain to work with.
After three attempts and about an hour and a half this is what I came up with. I'm not happy with it at all and my eyes keep going to the crappy drill job on the slot. By this time I was getting pretty frustrated and quickly running out of polished stainless, so I shelved it and haven't touched it since. That was in July:laugh: