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Custom Side Covers
- Thread starter Marbing
- Start date
amc49
XS400 Junkie
Nothing wrong with the looks but unless that plastic is a oily base one to be very flexible I see the thin strips breaking faster than spit. Need at least one joiner behind the strips to tie the middle together to be harder to break.
Car parts never run strips that far with no support and they don't vibrate nearly so much as bike parts do,
Car parts never run strips that far with no support and they don't vibrate nearly so much as bike parts do,
Yeah I am adding two support strips behind the strips.
It will have to be printed in ABS because its most heat resistant.
Want to be sure of the sizing, then I will upload the file.
amc49
XS400 Junkie
ABS is not as heat resistant as some others but will work fine there, it has some give to it under stress. Side covers can get warm but generally not that hot. There are thermoplastics that take a lot more heat than ABS but then it has to be meltable at fairly low temp to print easily.
Sounds like you got it going.
Sounds like you got it going.
Most motorcycle bodywork is ABS. Pretty sure OE sidecovers on the XS are as well.
