Our dear friend Harry is building a new bike based on a Fick
engine (Harley lower end with Matchless heads), and found
a guy in Indonesia to make aluminum fenders for him for a
low price.
Well, I guess something went wrong because the rear fender
came back too small in radius to fit on the wheel! Not easy
to fix because of the deep skirts on the sides, so he came
to Aad....
The original edge on the fender was actually rolled around a
wire, we have no experience with that so made the new edge from
solid aluminium
Taking great care not to let the fender deform from the heat
Aad welded the edge, both on the inside and the outside of the
fender. Then, using many different types of grinding discs,
it was time to blend the welds. As you would expect this took
a while...
One more inspection revealed some high and low spots that were
manually corrected and then the whole thing was sanded with
240 grit, then 320 and then scotchbrite.
It came out quite nice, and Harry was very happy with it!
