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Now you can take it apart, mold the frame, finish your brackets and send your stuff off 
to be chromed and polished.

Molding the frame is very easy and I highly recommend you give it a shot. It’s an easy 
job that just takes time to do.

Remove the fork bearing cups and races and then take the frame to your local powder 
coat shop and ask them to sand blast it.  It’s cheap and will ensure that it’s clean and everything will stick. 
DO NOT have any gas tanks or fenders sandblasted. It will ruin them. If you sand the frame instead of 
blasting it, your paint will not stick in many places. You just can’t get it good enough to work. Why waste all 
that work over a few dollars for sandblasting?

Wear clean rubber gloves once it’s blasted. Do not handle it with your bare hands or 
you will get oil from your skin on the surface and the bondo, paint and primer will not 
stick. If you doubt what I am saying, take an extra piece along with the frame and have 
it blasted. When you get it back, handle it and then set it aside. In a few days, you’ll 
see rust spots where you touched it but nowhere else.

You can pick up a gallon of bondo at your local automotive paint supply store. Relax, turn on the tunes and 
have a good time doing this yourself.

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Once this is done, 
set it aside and start 
on the sheet metal. 

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For the gas tank and 
fenders, lightly sand 
or grind the area to 
be molded. 

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In this case, the FatKatz fender is so perfect that you will 
only need a very thin film of bondo down the center where 
it’s welded.  

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Once you finish sanding off the excess with a heavy grit sand paper such as 36- to 80-grit, 
smooth out the surface with a finer paper such as 240-grit.  Sand the whole fender as well 
so the primer and paint will adhere to the metal.

You are now ready to put primer on this piece. All the FatKatz products are top quality and 
require very little prep. See your local automotive paint store for the proper prep and primer 
materials.