My everyday ride is a 1986 Kawasaki Concours, one of three I have owned. One was a parts bike, and one is the 1994 Concours I'm slowly restoring. Well, both the other Connies have bad gas tanks-the parts bike tank was an internally, faded paint mess, and the 94s has rusted through from sitting too long. It's been repaired, but also isn't in as good a shape as the 86 tank.
So I'm going to re-use the 86s tank for the restoration but need to repaint it. I popped the Kawasaki emblems off a few weeks ago, but big black blobs of adhesive were left behind. Nothing that should have worked got this stuff off. Even after thirty years no solvent I dared use dented the blobs.
I asked my Father-in-Law if he had a heat gun, but he didn't. So what did they get me for Christmas among other things? Yep, a heat gun! (side note: You know you're getting old when a heat gun excites you more than possibly getting a Red Rider BB Gun.) So tonight after dinner I went out to the garage, grabbed a plastic putty knife and fired up the heat gun. Once softened a little the adhesive "goo" came off. I slightly melted the putty knife, but no big loss-it was one I found laying around and not sure when we got it.
I've already got another project or two in mind for the heat gun, so it will likely be put to good use. Time to prep a few more pieces of old bodywork and pick a color for the Connie-bouncing between a dark blue, a deeper red than stock, or white and black.
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