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Just a quick update from the weekends adventure in the man cave. Couple of simple jobs which like everything else on this build just swallowed most the build time allowance.
First up was a couple of locking nuts for securing the handlebar clamps to the top yoke.
Next up was a cover for the master cylinder on the front brake reservoir......another one of those 5 min jobs which took a few hours
..............my own fault
! There was some cast letters on the cover, and it was painted, so I decided to remove the paint with a little heat, and grind off the letters.......anyway cut a long story short, the porosity of the die casting came through, so I had to skim it, and skim it, until there was nothing left to skim 
Had to make a new one eventually. Plan is to have a go at anodizing it....watch this space!
First up was a couple of locking nuts for securing the handlebar clamps to the top yoke.
Next up was a cover for the master cylinder on the front brake reservoir......another one of those 5 min jobs which took a few hours
..............my own fault! There was some cast letters on the cover, and it was painted, so I decided to remove the paint with a little heat, and grind off the letters.......anyway cut a long story short, the porosity of the die casting came through, so I had to skim it, and skim it, until there was nothing left to skim Had to make a new one eventually. Plan is to have a go at anodizing it....watch this space!
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It's off a KTM Duke if I recall
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This weekend gone, was mostly taken up making lots and lots of mess
.................That aluminium swarf gets everywhere, and I mean everywhere
Id previously bought some off the shelf switch gear at the end of last season with a view to using them on the build. Unfortunately they looked a bit too bulky when they were mounted, so another plan was hatched!
A few years ago, on my previous build I bought some nice CNC switch gear with some small push buttons, they were very nicely made but at £80/pop they weren't cheap. At the time I was casually looking about and came across the small push buttons from China for £3/each, so ordered a few and forgot about them. I stumbled across them so set about making my own version. Not used a rotary table in anger for years so it was a good refresher and nice to get my hand back in. I'm chuffed the way they turned out, but in time and labour would cost about 3 x the price of the £80 ones
Undecided at the moment whether or not to anodize them black, as I'm itching to give it a go.......
.................That aluminium swarf gets everywhere, and I mean everywhereId previously bought some off the shelf switch gear at the end of last season with a view to using them on the build. Unfortunately they looked a bit too bulky when they were mounted, so another plan was hatched!
A few years ago, on my previous build I bought some nice CNC switch gear with some small push buttons, they were very nicely made but at £80/pop they weren't cheap
. At the time I was casually looking about and came across the small push buttons from China for £3/each, so ordered a few and forgot about them. I stumbled across them so set about making my own version. Not used a rotary table in anger for years so it was a good refresher and nice to get my hand back in. I'm chuffed the way they turned out, but in time and labour would cost about 3 x the price of the £80 ones Undecided at the moment whether or not to anodize them black, as I'm itching to give it a go.......
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nice work have you vacuumed up the mess yet
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CNC free zone in my shop
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The XS650 engine is often mentioned as a copy of the Norton & Triumph styling at the time..............I suppose the Japanese designers back in the 60/70's are akin to the Chinese bike designers nowadays...
BSA owned a company in Japan called Meguro who built Bsa's under licence and bikes of their own. Meguro was taken over by Kawasaki and thats why they build the w650's and other British styled retro machines.
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A mate of mine had a yamaha 650 in the late 70s ...I borrowed it a few times, I almost bought it off him when he bought a Jota ...I really liked it ,it handled very nicely ....
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So how did you do the outside shape freehand? Beautiful BTW.CNC free zone in my shop
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looks like a rotary table
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Ah! of course.
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Because they fell into the 'cheap as chips' bracket and became a source of ready fodder for the cafe-artistes, half of whom only know how to cut things off but leave the place littered with 'projects' that are usually unreclaimable because too many bits are savaged beyond repair.
As a result, the remaining ones shot up a lot.
I really don't know why, there's no shortage of them - Yamaha made over 400,000 of them over the years.
