Hood
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Aye, occasionally, at the workshop as we speak ( or really type) making the extension pedal for the guy on the AT forum because I am liking it a lot on todays run, proof here
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redlig
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Having ridden/fettled /built m/c's since 1961 and being in the trade for 25years I find it great to see someone actually " altering " their bike to suit their own requirements . So many of the customers that I had to deal with were either unimaginative or incapable of altering the standard machine or even adjust it to suit their riding. They seem to think that the motorcycling experience begins and ends with the purchase.Aye, occasionally, at the workshop as we speak ( or really type) making the extension pedal for the guy on the AT forum because I am liking it a lot on todays run, proof here
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Hood
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I have always been one for altering my bikes, often just for the sake of it. The last CBR600 I had I made loads of stainless fasteners for it on my first lathe, tried to broach a hex in the end of the first two or three but soon gave up and made the heads with two holes and made a wee pin spanner to fit. Also meant there was very little chance of anyone managing to unscrew a panel to nick it
Farside
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Must've smelled better than Linklyfe, though.Made the pedal then went for a leisurely toddle round the back roads for a bit, got back home and boiled it as I had run out of gas for the camping stove I have at the workshop. The boss wondered what I was cooking
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I'm same, with various things. I like to think of it as customising things to better suit our need or preference.
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Repaired the boat club dumper steering wheel.
Original, absolutely f***ed..
Got the assembly from an old Leyland horsebox truck at a scrapyard and cut away the excess structure firstly.
Then took the splined section and put a slot so I could take the dump truck spline and join it.
all mounted up
Not pretty but it'll do.
Original, absolutely f***ed..
Got the assembly from an old Leyland horsebox truck at a scrapyard and cut away the excess structure firstly.
Then took the splined section and put a slot so I could take the dump truck spline and join it.
all mounted up
Not pretty but it'll do.
roblane65
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You mean " tarting it up "
redlig
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Especially when dripped onto the stove.
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Another test with melter. Metal was waiting before Id decided what to mold, no time to make a pattern so I used an incomplete lathe toolholder as a challenge.
I have coarse sieved all of my sand, removing plenty of stones, and made up a tapered form for the sprue.
The pour was good. The surface finish is much improved over the last attempts. Dovetails will need milling or filling but there is plenty of extra metal there.
After a quick file - those are surface defects rather than porosity.
I have coarse sieved all of my sand, removing plenty of stones, and made up a tapered form for the sprue.
The pour was good. The surface finish is much improved over the last attempts. Dovetails will need milling or filling but there is plenty of extra metal there.
After a quick file - those are surface defects rather than porosity.
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Bu!!****, perfectly usable on some boats down here. Little bit of Devcon and she's apples
northwest
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Today (well, yesterday) I made a mess. I was busy putting bootlace ferrules on all of the wires from the control panel on the CNC Lathe and here we were, it was almost instantaneous:
No, I did not sort them all, the bin was nearby.
No, I did not sort them all, the bin was nearby.
Other Daniel
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My propensity to OCD coupled with being a tightwad, would have
seen me patiently sitting there and sorting them out, whilst looking
carefully for any I may have missed.
Hood
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I would have just scooped them up and put them in the box then chosen the colour/size needed from whichever compartment they happened to be in, no need to have them in organised by size compartments
My Old Landy
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I would do the same, I have just bought a box and if I drop them they will just go back in where ever they go!I would have just scooped them up and put them in the box then chosen the colour/size needed from whichever compartment they happened to be in, no need to have them in organised by size compartments
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I would have just scooped them up and put them in the box then chosen the colour/size needed from whichever compartment they happened to be in, no need to have them in organised by size compartments
Oh no, I couldn't live with that !
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then counting up which ones you had, and subtracting them from the 1900 original quantity just to see what you've used............assuming there were 1900 there........obviously you'd have checked that
