Quite a strong character would be number one on the list I’d imagine, with an ability to perform under pressure..
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You have to balance not pushing for updates too frequently, with an element of "look - you can spend 30 seconds updating me, or I stand back and you'll have 100 emails and phone calls so help me to help you".
Often the hardest thing to ask a techie, and the hardest thing for a techie to answer, is "sure, but when should I check back in with you?".
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It took me about 2 hours just to transfer the measurements and scribe on the plate
I don't have none of those things
I don't think so...
I just need to drop some of them.
I'm pretty sure I'll end up breaking drill bits, loose the patience just after having lost any possibility to enter in heaven.
Take it to work hook up my little combination torch with 000 tip and cut the thing out.
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Thats not good at all!A cautionary note.
If your bike has, or you are buying, a modified frame, check it thoroughly. Either through stupidity or deceit people will bodge them rather than do it properly. In this instance using some foam packing and body filler.
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Worth sorting though as it's a bit of a rare bird being a '76 bike, UK from new with a 447 engine and twin discs. So once the frame's sorted which won't be too bad a job, then it'll be back to an original matching numbers bike.
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makes for good reading "de-cafe racer it" many a good 70,s and 80,s bikes totaly ruined by this mad hipster style and 95% of them being bad bodges too.
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I get it when a frame's rough, or the bike has bits missing etc, but why people take an angry grinder to a good or usable complete bike is beyond me.makes for good reading "de-cafe racer it" many a good 70,s and 80,s bikes totaly ruined by this mad hipster style and 95% of them being bad bodges too.
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Sawzall madness. Only about 1% of the finished articles appear to have been done by someone with a clue.
Of the others, well, most of them don't appear. The owners give up when they reach the end of their abilities, which is quite quickly.
Of the others, well, most of them don't appear. The owners give up when they reach the end of their abilities, which is quite quickly.
It's their bike they can do what they want I reckon, you have to take into account when it was done the bike may have been worth a lot less than it would be now.
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I do wonder that sometimes when I watch car restoration shows. They talk about past bodged body repairs and I wonder whether back when that Triumph/MG/Alfa was somebody's 1980's daily driver, it might have only been worth getting a cheap repair because the car was only worth £200. It was either cheap repair or scrap it.
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Yep, they're perfectly entitled to make an absolute balls of anything they own, and display a lack of imagination equalled only by their lack of knowledge and/or ability.
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There's a world of difference between a cheap repair and a bodge carried out by a half witted shaved ape with access to tools. It could also be argued that if you can't afford to maintain something then it demonstrates that you can't afford to own it.
I read and hear similar stories about houses where someone can't afford an extension so they lash one up themselves or get the cheapest labour possible. When it inevitably goes horribly wrong out comes the sad face and the pity party about how doing it properly costs too much.
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Sure but if it hadn't have been for the optimistic bodgers lots of classic cars would have gone to the scrappy years ago. As it is some of them are still here to be properly restored this time round. I don't know if that applies to old bikes though.
Today i spent most of the day tidying up the workbench, I am one of those who tends to work in a mess & jumble of tools, but when the available area to actually do something has disapeared its time to tidy up. The bin was next to me & its now full, I have found tools i havent seen for years!
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Thanks for the link on the Fuzeblock
I'll have a think and in a couple of years time make a decision 
The M Unit ones do look like they have a few more options in them though but three times the price.
I'm hoping I'll still be able to ride the bloody thing if I do ever finish mine...
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A leaf/ladder sight for an M203 grenade launcher
I'm trying to build my own replica of this specific sight
It's for one of my airsoft M4A1
I'm building it trying to make it look like an USMC "Iraqi Freedom" issued M4A1
With ACOG scope, AN-PEQ 15, KAC sight (the thing I'm trying to build) and obviously an M203.
Those sights are not available here and the one you can find are extremely expensive for what they are.
Real steel ones are not an option both legally and because they are around 400 euro to get one.
But they are classified as essential weapon component in my country so I'd need a license but being from a grenade launcher system they would be part of a combat weapon so totally illegal for a private citizen to own in Italy
