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#21 leehenty

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Posted 07 July 2020 - 05:27 pm

I mean a table of settings for up to 100 divisions. Which hole plate to use etc.
Someone else did all the maths.
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#22 gautrek

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Posted 08 July 2020 - 02:14 pm

This is the one thing I miss about not working in an engineering factory anymore. Not having access to CNC machines and wire cutting machine ( spark eroder). It takes so much longer having to use a basic lathe and mill.

Interested in very very old bikes with the ocasional newish one thrown in.


#23 leehenty

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Posted 08 July 2020 - 02:42 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.
2002 900 silver,oil pressure switch with brass 90 degree conversion, RG fork protectors. Wilburs custom made rear Shock with remote hydraulic preload and RG shocktube, Wilburs front springs. Scotoiler with a custom made swing arm delivery unit. Silicone radiator hoses.BMW 1150 handguards with Touratech extensions, Carbon Fibre yoke cover and fender extenda, MRA flip screen, Yamaha Engine bars, SW Motech Centre Stand, Kappa wingrack three box Luggage with E21's as option from the K960 boxes, Zumo 660 satnav on Touratech mount, Led Voltage monitor, Baglux tank cover, Clear LED Rear light, Aux LED brake light, BikeVis bullet LED's under front  nose,Stainless rear axle nut, stainless chain adjusters, stainless wheel spacers front and rear, Probolt Polished Stainless Flanged Hex engine screws, Polished stainless fairing screws, stainless disc bolts. Titanium brake pins front, Probolt Titanium Flanged Hex Front Caliper Bolts & Rear caliper slide pins Adventure Spec Tool tube under rear rack, left and right sides with custom alloy mounts.<p>Top Sellerie double gel pad seat. Carbon Fibre inner dash and side infill panels. Anodised black alloy swingarm pivot bolt covers and footpegs, Nano II Gear indicator.

#24 gautrek

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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.

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Posted 08 July 2020 - 08:17 pm

In the (very) small village in Spain where I live,there are loads of empty houses, long abandoned by families have moved away to find work in the old days. Once in a while, a family member will come back to clear the family house and would ask for help. Mostly crap and more crap but once in a while, you get some gems. Two houses with SR250's in each, bought new in the 70's, used for a bit then left in a room when the house was closed up. One has a Guzzi-Hispania, don't know what model but its like new, just dusty. In one house, as far as i can gather from the neighbours description, is an SR500! I'm waiting for the chance to get in that one. So far, none of them would sell because its "grandads" or "uncles" pride and joy.
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!

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Posted 09 July 2020 - 05:41 am

Drag it out with the TDM. If a wall gets damaged so be it. :lol:


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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.


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#28 leehenty

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Posted 09 July 2020 - 07:53 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.
2002 900 silver,oil pressure switch with brass 90 degree conversion, RG fork protectors. Wilburs custom made rear Shock with remote hydraulic preload and RG shocktube, Wilburs front springs. Scotoiler with a custom made swing arm delivery unit. Silicone radiator hoses.BMW 1150 handguards with Touratech extensions, Carbon Fibre yoke cover and fender extenda, MRA flip screen, Yamaha Engine bars, SW Motech Centre Stand, Kappa wingrack three box Luggage with E21's as option from the K960 boxes, Zumo 660 satnav on Touratech mount, Led Voltage monitor, Baglux tank cover, Clear LED Rear light, Aux LED brake light, BikeVis bullet LED's under front  nose,Stainless rear axle nut, stainless chain adjusters, stainless wheel spacers front and rear, Probolt Polished Stainless Flanged Hex engine screws, Polished stainless fairing screws, stainless disc bolts. Titanium brake pins front, Probolt Titanium Flanged Hex Front Caliper Bolts & Rear caliper slide pins Adventure Spec Tool tube under rear rack, left and right sides with custom alloy mounts.<p>Top Sellerie double gel pad seat. Carbon Fibre inner dash and side infill panels. Anodised black alloy swingarm pivot bolt covers and footpegs, Nano II Gear indicator.

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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.


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Posted 09 July 2020 - 08:16 am

Anyone who works with their hands is looked down on by the academics. It's the trades people who keep the lights on and the water running.
2002 900 silver,oil pressure switch with brass 90 degree conversion, RG fork protectors. Wilburs custom made rear Shock with remote hydraulic preload and RG shocktube, Wilburs front springs. Scotoiler with a custom made swing arm delivery unit. Silicone radiator hoses.BMW 1150 handguards with Touratech extensions, Carbon Fibre yoke cover and fender extenda, MRA flip screen, Yamaha Engine bars, SW Motech Centre Stand, Kappa wingrack three box Luggage with E21's as option from the K960 boxes, Zumo 660 satnav on Touratech mount, Led Voltage monitor, Baglux tank cover, Clear LED Rear light, Aux LED brake light, BikeVis bullet LED's under front  nose,Stainless rear axle nut, stainless chain adjusters, stainless wheel spacers front and rear, Probolt Polished Stainless Flanged Hex engine screws, Polished stainless fairing screws, stainless disc bolts. Titanium brake pins front, Probolt Titanium Flanged Hex Front Caliper Bolts & Rear caliper slide pins Adventure Spec Tool tube under rear rack, left and right sides with custom alloy mounts.<p>Top Sellerie double gel pad seat. Carbon Fibre inner dash and side infill panels. Anodised black alloy swingarm pivot bolt covers and footpegs, Nano II Gear indicator.

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Posted 09 July 2020 - 11:12 am

One of my favourite Yootoob pastimes is watching old manufacturing processes like sand casting engine parts for airplanes. My chicken and egg question is, how did they make the first lathes without a lathe, and the first big assembly tooling and cranes? By hand I'm sure which makes it more impressive

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Posted 09 July 2020 - 12:05 pm

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Posted 09 July 2020 - 02:53 pm

The Victorian's were an inventive lot. Eccentric's was accepted then because it was useful. They invented things.
2002 900 silver,oil pressure switch with brass 90 degree conversion, RG fork protectors. Wilburs custom made rear Shock with remote hydraulic preload and RG shocktube, Wilburs front springs. Scotoiler with a custom made swing arm delivery unit. Silicone radiator hoses.BMW 1150 handguards with Touratech extensions, Carbon Fibre yoke cover and fender extenda, MRA flip screen, Yamaha Engine bars, SW Motech Centre Stand, Kappa wingrack three box Luggage with E21's as option from the K960 boxes, Zumo 660 satnav on Touratech mount, Led Voltage monitor, Baglux tank cover, Clear LED Rear light, Aux LED brake light, BikeVis bullet LED's under front  nose,Stainless rear axle nut, stainless chain adjusters, stainless wheel spacers front and rear, Probolt Polished Stainless Flanged Hex engine screws, Polished stainless fairing screws, stainless disc bolts. Titanium brake pins front, Probolt Titanium Flanged Hex Front Caliper Bolts & Rear caliper slide pins Adventure Spec Tool tube under rear rack, left and right sides with custom alloy mounts.<p>Top Sellerie double gel pad seat. Carbon Fibre inner dash and side infill panels. Anodised black alloy swingarm pivot bolt covers and footpegs, Nano II Gear indicator.

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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.

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Posted 09 July 2020 - 05:17 pm

Stick it on the milling machine, but why are the owners club not taking this up with the manufacturer

Edited by leehenty, 09 July 2020 - 05:20 pm.

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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.

 

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Posted 10 July 2020 - 05:21 am

Or just offer a sandwich plate and second set of gaskets to make the difference.

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#38 wicklamulla

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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. 


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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.  :(  


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Posted 10 July 2020 - 01:08 pm

That's very true Matlock, no youngsters are coming on underneath so skills will be lost for ever.
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