Finally the paint is done.  After lashing the tank down to an inch of its life,  the last tank I buffed ended up flying across the room, I gave it a good buff.  It turned out nice. 

I also polished the gas cap and cover.

You can see the lace pattern better when I use the flash, the colour is off though, it's more like the other photos.

I played with the seat so that it would latch correctly, now it snaps on like a dream.

I slapped the new petcock on, nice and shinny.  The old one was a mess.

A couple more shots just for the hell of it. 

Superdog's a blur,  I hope he leaves my drapes alone.

I gave brazing a shot, it might come in handy latter.  I like the contrast of the metals.

No more electrical issues

I don't know why the last stretch of a project is always the longest.  Maybe you get lazy, maybe frustrated.  Maybe you kept for last the stuff you dislike the most.  Either way winter is coming and this bike still isn't done. 

I had assumed things about this project that got me into trouble.

Firstly, I assumed that I had amber running lights at the front of this thing.  I was very sure and this is why we kept blowing fuses left right and center.  It turns out that the stock front ambers had only two wires.  That means no running lights.  *^%#@ me. 

And B,  I assumed that a white wire is hot and a black wire is ground.  Apparently Chinese LEDs use whatever wires they feel like so the opposite was true.

Mr. G paid me a visit and his methodical ipso facto approach to this was more fruitful than my swear, yell and plead approach was. 

Once these two facts where known the rest fell into place.  We did have a "what the @#$" moment when I connected only one wire to a stock lamp I was using for troubleshooting and the damn thing lit up.  I looked at Mr. G with the other wire in hand and once again swore.  The look on his face was worth it.  After a second or two of  what the @#$^% we figured out the body of the lamp was grounding on the rad support.  Freaking vintage stuff made of metal. 

Some crappy wiring had to be fixed.  I'm nor comfortable with stuff like this:

The wires to the battery box got lengthened.

Now everything works like it should.