Distressing seat knobs

xbacksideslider · Aug 28, 2014

Mine were miss drilled from day one, never did trap the knob on the bolt; I drilled them out and tapped one side of each for an Allen head machine screw of large enough diameter that the screws trap the knobs on their bolts.

daveparry · Aug 29, 2014

I must say I like to see them shiny to match the Z plates too!

brxpb · Aug 29, 2014

I knew a man who made faux antiques, he would hang stuff above thr grid and piss on it now and then for a week, he also had a "hundred year machine" where he just banged said piece in a box in his car boot/trunk and put old washers and some ball bearings, nuts etc in there and let them rattle around while he used the car, looked hundred years at least after a couple of weeks.

mschmitz57 · Aug 29, 2014

You're joking, right?

aceaceca · Aug 29, 2014

I lost one once. I retraced my route a few times and finally found it in the middle of a busy intersection. It had been run over a number of times. My buddy chucked it in his lathe and cleaned up the very marred face and polished it a tad. It is still shining on my bike. I check them every outing as I have no pins in them.

brxpb · Aug 29, 2014

No, no joke, also dog piss is supposedly better still. Ammonia and acids great for aging metal.

Guido · Aug 30, 2014

Yeah, you do that and you'll have every dog in the neighborhood sniffing your tail pipe. :shock:

Torontonian · Aug 30, 2014

Resist the urge to pee on your expensive shiny new Norton parts.

Hobot · Aug 30, 2014

To age antique ally, hammer in texture of various sand paper grades then a stomp onto gravel, then leave in some dish detergent a dozen minutes or so and rinse off or leave on depending on how old and crappy you desire. Only takes one really nice finished item to spoil most the others. A funny thing happened to Trixie last year, lost the nice knobs but the steel nuts stayed on so that's all she's got to better JBW job. I found the proper aged knob in gavel driveway some seasons later. Pretty tough item except for the treads.

concours · Sep 1, 2014

MikeM said:
As my 71 is now on the road I am leaning to function rather than correctness at this time.
My OEM seat knobs are trashed and stripped etc, but they look like they belong. I got new ones but they are quite shiny. I really dont want to put them my bike as they will stand out like a gold tooth!
How can I distress them some so that they dont stand out quite so much? Bury them in the yard, sand them down?
Any tricks? One stupid question. What is the function of the spring pin?

I heli-coiled mine, work great. Re-use your originals :idea:

MikeM · Sep 1, 2014

concours said:
MikeM said:

As my 71 is now on the road I am leaning to function rather than correctness at this time.
My OEM seat knobs are trashed and stripped etc, but they look like they belong. I got new ones but they are quite shiny. I really dont want to put them my bike as they will stand out like a gold tooth!
How can I distress them some so that they dont stand out quite so much? Bury them in the yard, sand them down?
Any tricks? One stupid question. What is the function of the spring pin?

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I heli-coiled mine, work great. Re-use your originals :idea:

I put them on yesterday, its all good. I now have other issues that are going to over ride the conditon of the knobs. I can get over them. Thanks for all the help. I need to move on. Wish my only probs were cosmetic

Thanks again
MikeM

Torontonian · Sep 1, 2014

Yeh,

you got bigger probs. to worry about. Great airshow today , F 18 power.

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