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View clearly showing brass rivets.

After the minor task of  spraying the fairing (use etching primer to prime). I obtained ten brass rivets and ten plastic clips from Motobins (www.motobins.co.uk). After carefully lining up the dash and screen I used the holes in the screen as a template and drilled the ten holes in the dash/fairing. It was tricky but I used some duck tape to hold it all in place. The brass rivets were then used to secure the dash to the fairing by using a 6mm nut and bolt to crush them. The screen was beaded (again from Motobins) and secured with the plastic clips. These clips have a "bar" of plastic which when pushed into the centre of the clip it flairs the clipslegs out to hold the screen down. They are really hard to push in until I hit on an easy way of doing it - USE A DAB OF SILICONE GREASE AND THE BLIGHTERS PUSH IN EASILY. It certainly beats using the bolts supplied with the fitting kit!

I tightened everthing up and examined my handywork. Oh dear the headlight was too small and too high. I temporarily fashioned some "extenders" out of slotted bar and it didn't look so bad.

Temporary extenders

Cockpit view

Quite a pleasant profile eh!

I wasn't happy with the small 6" headlight and  secured an R65 RT (yes RT) second hand 7" diameter headlight from James Sherlock (www.james-sherlock.co.uk). I had an old broken headlight bracket which I cut the "ears" off. Using my brand new MIG welder and metal bending tool (WOW) I  extended and fashioned some new ears. They had to go on the outside of the headlight bracket so the metal lip was ground down to allow fitment.

Manufactured "ears" and new headlight next to old

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