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Ah !!! now I've got your attention guys, have a look at this......In another thread I asked for some HELP regarding fitting lower shrouds on my Classic 500 rear shocks... Recently I had fitted some of our hosts Rubber gaiters to the forks which entailed removing the bulk of the top shroud...Guess what?? ---- It fits over the spring of the rear shock..... SO, with a little sawing, welding and trimming we get a lower shroud as well !!!!----------------------------------

------------------ I haven't actually done the sawing and fitting bit just yet, but you get the idea ??

And i thought you was the richest member on here!

Only because I resort to this sort of cash-saving ideas !!-------

Good Idea there Alan, just needs a washer and a bit of JB weld to hold it together if you don't have a welder

alan this looks like a good idea although i once saw simular covers on ebay but they entailed spending so keep us pictorially informed with the progress atb paul

Hi guys-------- yes, will do Paul but currently have the FLU bug and can't raise anything !!--- let alone some interest...Will try again come next week-end.

Chin up Alan, no probs with flu bugs here at the moment, so dam hot, tyres are sticking to the asphalt

OK--- as promised, here's the rest of the story.... Just to re-cap, this came about because I had fitted our hosts Fork gaiters and in so-doing had found that the long length of fork shroud tubing thus removed also fitted INSIDE the chromed top shroud of the REAR shocks..So using this material we can make a LOWER shroud for the open-type, REAR shocks...This way both front and rear will be protected....The lower units need to have a form of "Flat washer"shape attached so that they can move with the damper unit...Two ways of doing this,....a}---- Cut-and-Shut, ie Saw a series of small cuts about 1/4" deep,bend to 90 degrees and weld together = long, tedious and potentially messy... OR b)}----- have the same shape required laser-cut in 1mm steel then braze on, clean-up and paint to suit.. I chose the latter... I'm waiting for the ambient temp to rise a bit before I apply the final coat of gloss black, but you can see the final product almost done... I ordered 4 of the steel "washers" which, including P&P came to £6...A mornings brazing and filing gave me this }--------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE UNIT AS REMOVED FROM THE BIKE----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DISMANTLED USING THE IMPROVISED BSA CLUTCH PRESS-------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"WASHERS", AS SUPPLIED FROM THE LASER CUTTER--------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUBE FOR CUTTING...ONE "WASHER" FITTED ---------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ONE BRAZED, ONE CLEANED UP ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- READY FOR GLOSS PAINTING AND FINAL ASSY.--------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------

Excellent work Alan! Just one thing... (as Colombo says,) have you measured to make sure the bottom shroud won't hit the inside of the top one on full compression? Not that I'm saying you're lardy or anything!!! Ooh, and who did the Laser cutting? REgards, Mark