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Last summer I bought a motorbike from a guy who had crashed it, and have been fixing it up. The pavement scraped up the pipes, and the heat shields turn signals, battery case, and part of the air cleaner cover were gone. I fixed the brakes, and had new tires, primary chain, and final drive belt put on, along with a lot of other little thing. To save some money, and for the cool factor, I decided to make some of my own parts from copper. The first thing was to deal with the problem of setting my pants on fire with the bare, scraped to hell exhaust pipes. I used my girlfriend's angle grinder to remove the gouges, and painted the pipes with stove blacking, and then hammered out and riveted together a set of copper heat shields. When I first put them on and went out on the road I was a bit distracted by the beautifully changing heat colors on the copper. The copper got a little thin where the pipes bend, so I riveted some re-enforcing plate where the heat shields are likely to dent. This is a detail of the one on the rear pipe.

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Last summer I bought a motorbike from a guy who had crashed it, and have been fixing it up. The pavement scraped up the pipes, and the heat shields turn signals, battery case, and part of the air cleaner cover were gone. I fixed the brakes, and had new tires, primary chain, and final drive belt put on, along with a lot of other little thing. To save some money, and for the cool factor, I decided to make some of my own parts from copper. The first thing was to deal with the problem of setting my pants on fire with the bare, scraped to hell exhaust pipes. I used my girlfriend's angle grinder to remove the gouges, and painted the pipes with stove blacking, and then hammered out and riveted together a set of copper heat shields. When I first put them on and went out on the road I was a bit distracted by the beautifully changing heat colors on the copper. The copper got a little thin where the pipes bend, so I riveted some re-enforcing plate where the heat shields are likely to dent. This is a detail of the one on the rear pipe.