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Buloody Hell Man! What a noise! Stupendous. Orgasmic. Brilliant.

Buloody Hell Man! What a noise! Stupendous. Orgasmic. Brilliant.

Nice job. You forgot to paint the vise to match the rest...

I have a later '73 M1 with the 30INT horizontal taper, no Knuckle vertical head like yourself, BUT has the quill feed 2MT Senior "S" vertical head c/w genuine Senior attachment plate that bolts over the dovetails. This has decent head room in the Z axis.

Sorry, no. Google a V8 car engine image to get the idea or "hydraulic cam followers". Plenty of 'Mercan car shops about, and engine internals are generally ridiculously cheap. You''d need 3.

Quite often on the Boxford. 3MT adaptors modified to suit various jobs, available from Arc and all the usual suspects, 3C collets in the Boxford adaptor.

Back in my "professional" days, used very regularly on my two Colchesters, one of the most common jobs being swinging Triumph pre unit timing covers converting from bush to oil seal for crank oil feed pressure. Again, 3MT adaptor with the Triumph OPRV thread used. Dead concentric, and no need to bother a with a boring head in a mill. Did so many, i got the job down to 20 mins, inc. machining the circlip groove.

If you want to go the roller bearing route, have a look at a V8 (American) car shop and their stock of hydraulic cam followers. Cheap as chips too. Bearing and shaft can all be used as an all in one item. Personally i like bronze fingers, but both have their merits.

Stick in your 4 jaw, and face the 2mm off. Or fixture it to your faceplate. Easy peasy

Thank you RW. That £200 spent inc $32 for the Boyesen reeds, and £42 for some footrest bling from the UK, plus postage. The rest were the usual outstanding prices and value for money up here in NE Thailand.

Paint job, 8 x pieces of plastic inc fuel tank £50.

Seat recover £3.

New 420 chain, 132 links £4.

Set of 6 stickers, custom made with computer, next day turnaround £5.

steel tube material to make exhaust, inc 4 x 90 degree bends £4.

New fuel tap £3.

90 degree throttle c/w bearing for cable run, and nice grips £6.

Full gasket set £1.80.

Inner tubes £1.40 ea.

etc etc. Marvelous.

The above post features my latest new toy. My air cooled monoshock trials bike project. 1989 Aprilia Climber rolling chassis and bodywork with a 96 Yamaha RXZ 135 air cooled 5 speed motor bored out to a current 142cc. Have about £200 into it on top of the £340 purchase price, and in excess of 100 hours work. Goes well now, especially after fitting Boyesen Dual Stage reeds and making a new exhaust system. Certainly more capable than the owner at trials, but its all good fun...

Shear tool - used commonly on shapers, but with a curved face. A curved face for the lathe tool will also enable you to face with it. Yes, they give a great finish on round parts in a lathe, what i like about them, is once you are down to your last couple of thou, and switched over to the finishing shear tool, you are getting a consistent diameter the length of the workpiece. If you think they give a nice finish on a lathe, try a shaper shear tool - like a ground mirror finish.

Good thread. Keep it up chaps.

Like John, i have no interest in models. I got into machine tools by needing to make stuff for motorcycles myself rather than farm it out. Then later on in life, i got into the machine tools themselves. And the tooling...

Agree, Triumph rocker box design can be made long term oil leak free. Gaskets, design and materials have moved on in the last 20 years for Brit bikes, compared to the std crap that was available prior by the original manufacturers.

British bikes = oil leaks. Complete fallacy. Only std factory bikes. When rebuilding, it is not only renovate, repair, replace, but blueprint, blueprint, blueprint. You will then have an oil leak free British motorcycle. The same can be said for 60's-70's British, American and Italian electrics. Purchase the motorcycle, rip the std wiring harness out, bin it, and blueprint the electrics and add a custom harness.

Back in the day, Norfolk Police had Moto Guzzi 850 T3 police bikes, at 50k miles, they were auctioned off. Many of my friends purchased these, ripped the harness out, re-wired, and had a completely reliable motorcycle that would go anywhere inc long trips abroad with zero problems for another 50k with minimal basic maintenance. Thats 100k miles without lifting the heads.

Just finishing off an air cooled monoshock trials bike project. A Yamilia - Yamaha 135cc 2T bored to 147cc in an 89 Aprilia Climber rolling chassis. Pics to follow, just got the paintwork back yesterday.

Mike.

And here's my Guzzi. 89 Cali III, internally stock, very non std externally, owned about18-19 years.

Ok, i'll bite. Here's my T140, owned from new, 1979. Very, very non std. billet 89mm Weslake crank, Carrillo rods, nickel plated highly modified frame, Fournales shocks, etc etc.

Edited By thaiguzzi on 01/11/2015 07:35:36

Memories. Passed my test on one of those in 77. CD 175 classed as an "old man's" bike, (which it was, 'cos it was my dad's), not to be confused with the CB 175, which with it's racier more up to date styling, had some pvc/velour tank strip. Jeez, the 70's and Jap styling errors...

Wash your mouth out with soap and water boy! Tom Senior never ever shipped a lemon.

Maybe a lime, bit never a lemon...

In a word, yes.