When Your Tinkering Day Goes To Another Level
#21
Posted 07 July 2020 - 05:27 pm
Someone else did all the maths.
#22
Posted 08 July 2020 - 02:14 pm
Interested in very very old bikes with the ocasional newish one thrown in.
#23
Posted 08 July 2020 - 02:42 pm
#24
Posted 08 July 2020 - 03:01 pm
It's handy if you have access to cnc etc and the boss lets you stay on after the real work is done to do your homework.
We used to fit our parts in round " proper" jobs. Had a few near misses when the boss came round. Luckily the windows on the CNC machining centre used to get a bit dirty in use.
Interested in very very old bikes with the ocasional newish one thrown in.
#25
Posted 08 July 2020 - 08:17 pm
In one of the houses I helped clear out to sell, there's a lathe, an English one. I can't remember the make but I seem to remember it was made in Scotland(?). The orginal owner was known as "El Relojero" , the watch maker. I've always thought he got his name from fixing watches and clockwork mechanisms. I found out only a couple of years ago that that was his hobby, and his real, but clandestine job, was fixing guns for the local militia during the Spanish civil war. If he was to have been found out, he would have been against the wall or down a well. Rumour has it some of his old walls hold secrets and his specialist tools. The house is now sold so I'm waiting for news of any discoveries. I was told when we were clearing the house I could have the lathe if I get it out. I have no idea how to use a lathe but I wanted it. It was about 10 ft long, maybe more and probably weighed a ton. Needles to say, I didn't even attempt it. Its still there now and the new owner wants it gone, but would need walls knocking down and a crane. I bet that machine could tell some stories!
#26
Posted 09 July 2020 - 05:41 am
Drag it out with the TDM. If a wall gets damaged so be it.
2002 TDM900 Yellow
#27
Posted 09 July 2020 - 06:35 am
love this kinda stuff. I pop in to see me mate 'Oddball' who works on in the evenings at the engineering firm who employ him full time. All the staff have a set of keys and are allowed to work evenings and weekends as they please, they 'get away with it' because they don't actually earn very much so they brokered an agreement with the boss (who incidentally is one of my tree customers) so that they get to use the lathes, milling machines etc in their own time and they can use the steel stock at cost price. He has done some basic work for me on my trucks etc. This is clever stuff and really makes you think of GB as an engineering powerhouse.
spyball alarm/immob, bluespot brake calipers and Stainless hoses, Fournales air adjustable shock with Remote Resevoir, forks raised 10mm thru yokes, racetech linear fork springs in 15 wt oil, Kappa wingrack/luggage, heated grips, Kedo handguards, dual heat controller to power heated jacket liner and or pants!!, Stebel 136DB horn, K&N air filter, colour matched Baglux tank cover (magnetic tank bag modified to fit cover), osram +50% headloight bulbs, headlight protector,"NitramSpecial" parking loight, tail light indicators all running on LED's & incorporate "Lite Buddies", MK7 Scottoiler fitted, taller screen, 2-2 stainless steel CCC's, Devil stainless down pipes. MKI Renntec engine crash bars & sump guard.
engine changed july 2007 on a dyno run it made 79.1BHP / Torque 59.9Had a brief flirtation with a 1999 MKIIa but it blew an exaust valve on the M5 so was sold on to be repaired.
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#28
Posted 09 July 2020 - 07:53 am
#29
Posted 09 July 2020 - 08:00 am
Maybe in 1950's, we were in manufacturing. We are good at design, we just don't produce anything here. We need to start teaching this stuff again to kids, then they can go on to CNC. My old University tried to teach engineering degree with no machine shop, it failed validation because students need to practice theory. So they built a machine shop with cheap Warco kit.
For that to happen society needs a bit of a reset here. We need to treat engineers with the proper respect we deserve. We tend to get looked down on by the academics in this country.
I have just started reading Exactly by Simon Winchester. It's the story of how precision engineers created the modern world.
Interested in very very old bikes with the ocasional newish one thrown in.
#30
Posted 09 July 2020 - 08:16 am
#31
Posted 09 July 2020 - 11:12 am
#32
Posted 09 July 2020 - 12:05 pm
Interested in very very old bikes with the ocasional newish one thrown in.
#33
Posted 09 July 2020 - 02:53 pm
#34
Posted 09 July 2020 - 04:11 pm
Hoping to do something like this tomorrow. Story goes, purchased a sporty exhaust and manifold for the MGB from the owners club. Rebuilt the carbs and went to fit everything to the block only to find the exhaust manifold was thinner than the inlet. Owners club fix for this known problem was cut some washers in half to pack out the difference. Fix, bodge more like.
Lad up the road has machines so hoping to machine down the inlet manifold (about 4mm) to the same thickness as the exhaust.
Engineering, lubbly jubbly.
Boop.
#35
Posted 09 July 2020 - 05:17 pm
Edited by leehenty, 09 July 2020 - 05:20 pm.
#36
Posted 10 July 2020 - 04:53 am
Apparently when MGB's were originally built there were 2 types of inlets so they matched the exhaust to suit which one was installed (thick or thin). Over the years with so many being rebuilt there's mix match out there. Strange thing is they offer original exhaust manifolds in 2 sizes so I don't know why they can't do it the sporty one.
Boop.
#37
Posted 10 July 2020 - 05:21 am
Current toys: '99 XT600E, 2000 4TX, '82 Princess 30DS (where the username comes from), No longer a '03 Fazer thou.
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#38
Posted 10 July 2020 - 10:22 am
Or just offer a sandwich plate and second set of gaskets to make the difference.
Victoria Sandwich Plate more loike.
spyball alarm/immob, bluespot brake calipers and Stainless hoses, Fournales air adjustable shock with Remote Resevoir, forks raised 10mm thru yokes, racetech linear fork springs in 15 wt oil, Kappa wingrack/luggage, heated grips, Kedo handguards, dual heat controller to power heated jacket liner and or pants!!, Stebel 136DB horn, K&N air filter, colour matched Baglux tank cover (magnetic tank bag modified to fit cover), osram +50% headloight bulbs, headlight protector,"NitramSpecial" parking loight, tail light indicators all running on LED's & incorporate "Lite Buddies", MK7 Scottoiler fitted, taller screen, 2-2 stainless steel CCC's, Devil stainless down pipes. MKI Renntec engine crash bars & sump guard.
engine changed july 2007 on a dyno run it made 79.1BHP / Torque 59.9Had a brief flirtation with a 1999 MKIIa but it blew an exaust valve on the M5 so was sold on to be repaired.
I loike tay and hang sangwiches !
www.kenhogantreeservices.co.uk
http://s33.photobuck...77/wickla/?sc=6
http://reg.imageshack.us/v_images.php
#39
Posted 10 July 2020 - 10:44 am
Maybe in 1950's, we were in manufacturing. We are good at design, we just don't produce anything here. We need to start teaching this stuff again to kids, then they can go on to CNC.
When I left school in Derbyshire in the late 70s, me and most of my mates went into apprenticeships. They're now all mostly top notch builders, plumbers, heating & gas engineers, welders, mechanics, civil engineers, electrical engineers, etc., etc., even avionics and aircraft engine technicians at RR at Derby. They're nearly all self-employed and live nice lifecycles. I look at my eldest son's friends, now aged around 25, most of whom left school with much higher academic achievements than I did, and they all work in shops, call centres or somewhere in the gig economy. Of the very few that have proper jobs, with "prospects", most of them got there because it's a family firm.
We downskilled this country in the 80s and 90s and we no longer have the infrastructure to get back on the ladder where we once were.
2002 TDM900 in glorious yellow, NOW SOLD
2012 Honda Crosstourer VFR1200X. Hyperspeed tourer.
1990 XTZ750 in black, standard apart from Micron silencer. Mechanical restoration complete, cosmetic restoration next on the agenda.. NOW SOLD
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#40
Posted 10 July 2020 - 01:08 pm
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