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« Reply #285 on: December 24, 2014, 11:09:38 PM » |
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Damn you & your infinite skills! You beat me to it, How can any one person have soooooo much talent
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« Reply #286 on: December 26, 2014, 09:02:08 AM » |
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Don't think there's much skill or talent involved. Just patience/boredom and a cheap Dremel I was thinking of matching clutch and brake, but it's probably safer to use rubber.
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« Reply #287 on: December 26, 2014, 12:10:12 PM » |
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Don't think there's much skill or talent involved. Just patience/boredom and a cheap Dremel I was thinking of matching clutch and brake, but it's probably safer to use rubber. You keep telling yourself that and the rest of us will look on through the eyes of the green eye monster To be honest its a joy to watch your efforts come to life
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« Reply #288 on: December 27, 2014, 09:31:03 AM » |
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« Reply #289 on: December 31, 2014, 06:14:20 PM » |
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Sorted the throttle pedal lever and trial fitted the pedals. Pic shows why I will need a bulge in the RH side.
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« Reply #290 on: December 31, 2014, 07:22:11 PM » |
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Looking rather fabulous Dave.
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« Reply #291 on: December 31, 2014, 08:56:10 PM » |
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Thanks. Need to make some adjustments. The accelerator pedal is too close to the brake. I may have room to move it across, that will mean a new floor panel because of the mounting holes, or I may have to make a narrower pedal.
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« Reply #292 on: December 31, 2014, 10:11:17 PM » |
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Ahh, the joys of building. I've lost count of the number of times we had to remake parts of my Pop to accomodate new pieces -still doing it now.
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« Reply #293 on: January 08, 2015, 07:10:14 PM » |
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Not been much "joy" recently but managed to spent the afternoon making some master cylinder spacers from aluminium, to adjust the reach and height of the pedals. They were a tad close and I couldn't shorten the pushrods any further. Also started on the ... can you guess what it is ?.. . Made from 12mm steel plate and hopefully will be finished tomorrow
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« Reply #294 on: January 08, 2015, 07:15:59 PM » |
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STEEL THING WITH HOLES IN?
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« Reply #295 on: January 08, 2015, 09:25:03 PM » |
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In one of the early issues of AWOL or Back Street Heroes magazine, they ran a piece on basic bike rally cookery. The one implement they used was a spatula, referred to as the MSTWHI -Metal Shovelly Thing With Holes In. No idea what it is Dave, but I'm intrigued -is that for something that requires 2 large mounting holes, with 2 possible positions?
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« Reply #296 on: January 08, 2015, 10:55:43 PM » |
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It was going to be cut into three parts to make the exhaust manifold plates, but have had a rethink and will start again, drilling the corners of the ports first (square ports). So now it's just, yet another paperweight. Or as Bus Boy put it " a steel thing with holes in it".
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« Reply #297 on: January 09, 2015, 03:17:13 PM » |
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Central flange done. Not perfect but a hell of a lot better than the standard cast manifold. End ones still to do. Would have been easier if I had some 6mm plate in stock but at least I know they will not warp when welded to the tubes.
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« Reply #298 on: January 09, 2015, 09:18:27 PM » |
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Precision Guesswork ......... What else do you need?
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« Reply #299 on: January 10, 2015, 10:03:45 PM » |
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Angle grinder, bench drill and files. Access to a mill would have helped, but you can only use what you have.
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