Making one was hard...................making an identical one was even harder!!.........Hats off to those metalworkers who make all them fancy compound curvy things !!
Everyday's a school day, quite satisfying turning a flat sheet of aluminium into something 3 dimensional with some hammers and some wood!
Had to get creative with some brackets to hide the fixings. That's where all the time goes in these builds, hours and hours of head scratching, measuring, cutting welding, grinding off re-welding then more grinding then getting it to look decent !!
got the battery box designed and tacked together. Going to be using the M-unit I was saving for the Guzzi, but might look at a NUUT unit for that build. Seems a shame not to use it on the little 250. A bit overkill for a basic layout, but they make everything so easy to to install as Ive used them before and makes life so simple
posted this in the "stuff you've made" thread elsewhere on the forum.....
Ive been using my B&D belt file for a few years and its great but is limited when it comes to radius or round objects. So I spotted a job lot of dynabrade fingers on the bay for 99p
Set about modifying a cheapo belt file tool to tackle the de-tabbing jobs and exhaust seam welds when the time comes...works a treat !
Back to the battery box.................had to dig out my teeny weeny Eclipse toolmakers clamp for the tabs on the battery strap and weld those in place.
Currently working on the rear brake pedal. it was looking a little tired, so after I clean out all the crud and got to the bottom of it, along with the worn out pivot shaft, I also discovered the bottom engine mount had taken early retirement many years ago ................some reverse engineering required!
Bit more excess frame bits for the scrap bin also.....
Righto...............last day of the year. No updates since February .....Ive been busy, honest..................life work etc. just gets in the way as we all know. I'll try and get up to date before February 2022................but Ive got 100's of pics to get through!
I did some work on the bike up until March/April................pics to follow, then recommenced full on build action a bit later this year back in October. Anyway where was I...................working on the brake pedal If I recall?
So I made a new spindle/bushes etc.
Mounted the rectifier under the motor.
Mounted a micro switch for the rear brake light in place of the OEM switch
Made some linkage plates and rebushed the pedal pivot.
Just a "simple" task of joining one end to the other........which was harder then it looks. For a simple single cylinder system, trying to get it under the pedal was a headache!. Ive done simpler 4 into 1 systems !