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Should have done the job just before you went home, stiink should have gone by Monday 
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Cato
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I did consider it but I didn't fancy the idea of heating metal to melt plastic that was used to contain petrol and then leaving the building.Should have done the job just before you went home, stiink should have gone by Monday
I cleaned out the tank, then left it sitting for a day with safety clean in it, then washed it out again, then left it on the safety clean tank with the heat on, gave it a final swill and then left it standing for 2 days. I'm sure it would have been fine, and there haven't been any issues, but I know I would have been sat at home watching the cameras.
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To someone with less of a concern about the H&S aspects?
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I think they preferred to give the job to an outfit (still UK based) who were experienced with this sort of work rather than have our own guys trained to do it safely. The same logic was behind getting rid of all the machine tools from the R&D lab and sub the work out rather than put somebody qualified in charge of them. It wasn't a decision I particularly agreed with, but way above my pay grade.
In a funny turn of events though, fast forward a few years and the subcontractor ended up with us as 70% of our business, owner wanted to retire so we've just finalised a deal to buy them outright. Will be interesting to see how that pans out.
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I spoke to the Bosch Automotive tech helpline this morning, nothing like starting the week with a 50 year old part for the poor sod.
Anyway, he says that the only cross references he can find are to the 1-217-330-037 number which he thinks was a supersession for 1-217-330-064 which is the Bosch part number for the OE 420965910. Further good news is that AutoDoc have them in stock. Two stroke clouds may be produced after Christmas.
Anyway, he says that the only cross references he can find are to the 1-217-330-037 number which he thinks was a supersession for 1-217-330-064 which is the Bosch part number for the OE 420965910. Further good news is that AutoDoc have them in stock. Two stroke clouds may be produced after Christmas.
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Is this down to age, or the new fangled fuel do you think ?A bit of early morning induction heater action.
The fuel pick up and return boss is a melt fit to the tank. It had to come off as the rubber pipes and steel stubs have rotted away.
The workshop stinks now.
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Age and poor storage as it hasn't been used/run in decades and the fuel in there would have been pre-mix two stroke. It's only done 7,700 Kms and looking round it I reckon most if not all of that was done in the '70s and '80s.
It was last in use with a film company in Wales BTW.
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Jebus! Parts cost (albeit without crank) for my V8 which has 8x the cylinders was under £1k.
Where did you source those? They look like the delphi sigma connectors (24 pin each?). I've got those connectors on the ecu I built for my engine and the straight ones would work well (wiring loom goes straight out the back of the ECU).
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Genuine parts for most things are horrendously expensive now. All the costs for materials and manufacturing have (and continue) gone up, add on tariff/Brexit tantrums and it's an expensive game for anything where they're not shifting parts in big numbers.
They're Aptiv Sicma connectors and I got the back shells from this bloke on eBay.
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A customer sent in a dozen magura clutch perches to have the clamp bolt threads and bolt remains cleaned out. Inevitably he's had a go first and mullerd them. 
I messaged him to tell him that the only way to do it now is drill them oversized and fit thread inserts. I also told him that it'd be £100:00 to make a clamp jig so that each perch can then be held with the clamp bolt hole central.
"Would it be possible to send me a drawing of the jig so that I can make one at work?"
I resisted the temptation to offer a suggestion as to where he could shove his perches at that point and instead replied :-
"No, as I won't be doing a drawing, I'll just make the jig off measurement. However if you want me to do a drawing and send it to you that'll be £250:00 as it'll take longer to draw than make. Also, be aware that if the jig you make is off in any of the planes it will be an additional £100:00 for the time taken messing about with setting it up to find out."
If he'd sent them in unmolested in the first place it would only have taken a couple of minutes to drill each one.
I messaged him to tell him that the only way to do it now is drill them oversized and fit thread inserts. I also told him that it'd be £100:00 to make a clamp jig so that each perch can then be held with the clamp bolt hole central.
"Would it be possible to send me a drawing of the jig so that I can make one at work?"
I resisted the temptation to offer a suggestion as to where he could shove his perches at that point and instead replied :-
"No, as I won't be doing a drawing, I'll just make the jig off measurement. However if you want me to do a drawing and send it to you that'll be £250:00 as it'll take longer to draw than make. Also, be aware that if the jig you make is off in any of the planes it will be an additional £100:00 for the time taken messing about with setting it up to find out."
If he'd sent them in unmolested in the first place it would only have taken a couple of minutes to drill each one.
Depends what canal. According to the news lately, some of them don’t have one.
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He restores Can Ams to 'as new' and bought about 20 of them that had been 'stored' at a farm. In typical farmer fashion they were randomly shoved in hedges, behind buildings, in sheds that had long since lost any kind of weather protection etc. They were scrap basically.
As is so often the way with such people he seems to think that his profit should come from people working for buttons because that's the only way that the end product is financially viable. I on the other hand work to the 'not my circus, not my monkeys' principle.
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I've seen "restorations" which are just a clean up, blow over with paint and polish the shiny bits so it looks nice, is he one of those?.
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No, he goes completely the opposite. Stripped to the bone and everything original that's possible is refurbished/reconditioned as new or better, anything else is replaced. Frames etc are blasted and CeraKoted which is closer to original than powder and a better finish but tougher than paint.
Quality work overall, just irritates me when people think I should work for less so that they can earn more.
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This is a link to his eBy ad. Can Am Bombardier.
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This makes me feel slightly less ashamed of mine:Some home made tinsel from yesterday's efforts.
In early this morning so I took the opportunity to clean down the lathe as part of the pre-Christmas workshop tidy.
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HFM!
I think I paid about £400 for one, off that lad in Edgware Rd.
The most hideously uncomfortable bike I ever had.
