Today in the workshop .....

[premmington]

I lost my tin of "blue"...

Down to flt tip pen and leaving marks on that with a scriber....

 

[Cato]

I lost my tin of "blue"...

Down to flt tip pen and leaving marks on that with a scriber....

Felt pen is quicker and easier. So as this is the MWF I'm sure you'll be purchasing a new tin of the messy, awkward to use stuff shortly?

 

[Bornfree]

My tin of Copaslip must be hetting on for 45 years old. Still three quarters full.

I get through a tin a year.

 

[droopsnoot]

"Right, that all looks OK. So like I said, put a smear of rubber grease on before you offer the backplate up and you're good to go."

Is it extra for a Lab report?



(No idea if that's what make it is, but it's roughly the right colour so the joke stands).

 

[Cato]

The 3TA clutch is going back together now that the bits have arrived, and I have to say that tensioner that was made/added is actually really good. I don't know if it was home made or done in a workshop back in the day, but it's well thought out, neat and effective. It also makes setting the tension and removing or refitting the clutch pack much easier than either the type without a tensioner or those with a blade.

 

[Cato]

Is it extra for a Lab report?



(No idea if that's what make it is, but it's roughly the right colour so the joke stands).

Very reasonable rates, half a Jumbone per inspection.

 

[Cobbler]

Is it extra for a Lab report?



(No idea if that's what make it is, but it's roughly the right colour so the joke stands).

No it’s a dog clutch

 

[badabec]

No cat scan?

 

[oldbikedavey]

Nightmare of despair , loathing, and resentment.....
Fitted the new back tyre to the Elvingtonian.
Bugger ! Wrong rotation !
Changed it back correctly in double quick time...
Turns out that the new tyre has a greater height, and fouls just about everything...
Now remedied...
Ten million things to do before tomorrow evening, and it's all going to hell in a barrel of cold vomit....

 

[Cato]

Nightmare of despair , loathing, and resentment.....
Fitted the new back tyre to the Elvingtonian.
Bugger ! Wrong rotation !
Changed it back correctly in double quick time...
Turns out that the new tyre has a greater height, and fouls just about everything...
Now remedied...
Ten million things to do before tomorrow evening, and it's all going to hell in a barrel of cold vomit....

It's grim when you get a day like that.

 

[Dapph2]

I lost my tin of "blue"...

Down to flt tip pen and leaving marks on that with a scriber....

Get hold of some Penaten cream ( or thick Zinc oxide nappy cream ) , pull a blue pen refill apart and use a bit of welding rod to push the ink out on to a teaspoon of the cream , stir it in well and add enough ink to turn it dark blue .

Put it is a tiny air tight container . and use it as engineers blue , if it dries out add a few drops of light oil to get it back to a thick paste . I know it as making " Warlocks Blue ".

 

[oldbikedavey]

It's grim when you get a day like that.

Loads of progress, but it really didn't feel like it at all.
I can't see any chance of any track time whatsoever tomorrow, just a vast waste of time, money, health and happiness.
There's an entire rear brake linkage to make up , a belly pan, and a primary drive cover, plus some form of a silencer that won't allow the engine to breathe anything like enough.
As a mechanism of malicious futility, it'd take some beating.....

 

[Cato]

Loads of progress, but it really didn't feel like it at all.
I can't see any chance of any track time whatsoever tomorrow, just a vast waste of time, money, health and happiness.
There's an entire rear brake linkage to make up , a belly pan, and a primary drive cover, plus some form of a silencer that won't allow the engine to breathe anything like enough.
As a mechanism of malicious futility, it'd take some beating.....

Sometimes you just have to write it off and move on, which is easier said than done.

 

[Nick DV]

.....and it's all going to hell in a barrel of cold vomit....

Sounds like a day in the life of......................................me! Note to self, "I must retire!"

 

[MattF]

Ten million things to do before tomorrow evening, and it's all going to hell in a barrel of cold vomit....

Pretty much a typical day then.

 

[Bullet2012]

Today we went from this dried, cracked and separating rubber pad to a modern closed cell two layer pad,

Should last another 20 years
Colours are matched to the hull colour scheme

 

[Bullet2012]

To measure it all we use photo g , measuring and cad system.

 

[oldbikedavey]

Sometimes you just have to write it off and move on, which is easier said than done.

Today, however, I bit through.....
No track testing or anything like that, but the thing ran very crisply for a minute, and my ears only bled a very tiny amount....
Much has been achieved, even if the timescale for actual track testing was hugely optimistic.....
The right of beer and curry is mine by conquest.......

 

[Puglet1]

Today, however, I bit through.....
No track testing or anything like that, but the thing ran very crisply for a minute, and my ears only bled a very tiny amount....
Much has been achieved, even if the timescale for actual track testing was hugely optimistic.....
The right of beer and curry is mine by conquest.......

Any photos or video?

 

[Pete.]

Today, however, I bit through.....
No track testing or anything like that, but the thing ran very crisply for a minute, and my ears only bled a very tiny amount....
Much has been achieved, even if the timescale for actual track testing was hugely optimistic.....
The right of beer and curry is mine by conquest.......

What kind of bike are you taking to Elv?