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I have already mentioned early on in the break down process that the boot/ tool box lid catch was an issue. Well in the seance that it wasn't there that is. I made a quick temporary fix using tie wraps that worked perfectly well but for obvious reasons I wanted something a little better.
Still with no original part available I opted to fabricate something out of some old bits of aluminium that I found lying about. It didn't need to be a work of art as it's all a bit out of sight but it needed to be functional.
One of the scraps I had was an L bracket with two holes along one edge and a slotted hole in one corner of the other edge. The other piece was a straight piece with a long angle cut out of one corner, it was also base coated green unlike its plain ally, L shaped buddy. Both pieces had rounded corners and the L bracket had two sprung anchor nuts with it that would prove to be useful.
The L bracket just so happened to have its two holes drilled exactly where the holes under the seat are for the fairing to bolt on to the OEM subframe that you can see the second shorter tie wrap passing through in the image above.
I flattened the L bracket off into a sheet and attached it to the fairing. Unfortunately it was to short to fashion a catch into the excess material so I removed it again.
Picking up the green flat piece, I set it in the vice and cut it allong its length from where the taper of the cut corner started so I had a chamfered spike for the catch to locate on. This is quite a useful design for the lazy; as it causes the catch to tighten up as it slips open so it doesn't really matter about measuring the length properly and adding a proper groove. This was then drilled twice up its center and corresponding holes drilled across the now flat L bracket.

 I have a huge tub of assorted 1.5mm pitch zinc anodized bolts that are of bugger all use on Jap bikes, unless used in a nut and bot format through a clean hole. So grabbing the opportunity to make use of these I picked out the narrowest one I had. This was far to long though so the first job was to hack it down to something less likely to punch through the battery the moment I sat on the bike.
All shortened, I tacked the bracket together along with a matching nut and washer. Everything looked about right so I passed two bolts though the fairing and located them into the captive nuts on my new catch assembly. Dry fitting the door in, although wobbly on the loos fairing, it lined up okay. So I tightened down the bolts into the catch assy until I noticed the point where the two sides of the fairing meet starting to lift. A quick look into the gap between the catch and fairing showed the problem. The head of the bolt holding the two parts of the catch together was pushing up through the fairing as it tightened down upon it.
Disassembling everything again I took a grind stone to the bolt head then polished it up. Maybe I polished it little to much as I wouldn't even see this bit but I think we have established that I am good at getting sidetracked.

Reassembled again and this time without stressing the plastics out I deemed it a success. I didn't bother putting a second bolt in as I hadn't intended this as a permanent fix and it was working perfectly fine as it was.

Not long after I made this, a bracket came up on ebay for the MC28. At only £15 it was inexpensive (maybe not for what it is but as NSR bits go) and appeared to add more strength to the rear fairing, so seemed worthwhile.

When it finally arrived I wiggled it into place where it lives in the tail fairing. However it seemed to small. If I lined it up with one set of holes, which it barely achieved, it would be miles away from the other set.
I rechecked the auction to make sure I hadn't made a mistake but it did indeed claim to be from an MC28.
I then checked online for some diagrams to see if I was missing anything and came across my answer. You can see the correct bracket on this exploded diagram for the MC28. Although open to enterpritation (these things are only ever as good as the artist that drew them) it did appear to be a different shape. It didn't take much investigating when I looked at the bracket for the MC21 to show where the mistake had been made. The drawing was good, just as good as the MC28's in fact, and it was clearly the same as the item I had bought.
The seller was very apologetic and offered a full refund for the incorrect item, I'm still out of pocket for the return postage but that's the cost of doing these things online I guess.
I replaced the catch I had made and there it remains.
It's lighter than the OEM item anyway so must make it faster.