Projects At Home During Lockdown

[Laava]

Still mulling ideas for a muffler or is just a dump pipe? Reminded me of a concept bike I saw where the headers dumped into the swingarm with some kinda swivel and then it exited again near the rear axle. Great concept but no doubt more downsides than practical. Is that a CB 350/450 tank? Looks good BTW, I am all about a good cantilever!

[Drew]

Still mulling ideas for a muffler or is just a dump pipe? Reminded me of a concept bike I saw where the headers dumped into the swingarm with some kinda swivel and then it exited again near the rear axle. Great concept but no doubt more downsides than practical. Is that a CB 350/450 tank?

I can chuck a small muffler under the left peg hanger without it looking stupid, so I'll do that.

Still be a little bit louder than I want, but ear plugs are cheap.

[jellywrestler]

I don't know how to change the orientation of that picture.

by taking another one?

[sidecar bob]

Made a couple of decisions. Dont try and hide my terrible welding, and dont clean or paint anything I didn't make or modify....

I'm high on tramadol because of my spine, but I kinda like the result at the moment.

Mate can you draw a cartoon of what that rear suspension is up to on a sheet of paper, take a pic & put it up.
I can't fathom it from the pics.

[sidecar bob]

I can't do any more to the MV until I can get some wire to make the new loom, so I pulled the '66 R50 beemer out of the hallway.
I've had this bike around six years. About three years ago I was out on a ride & it started smoking quite badly out of the left exhaust, & started chuffing smoke out the breather & lost compression & fouled the plug.
Any normal person would probably arrive at what I did. I figured it had overheated & nipped up in the bore, wrecked the piston, smudged alloy over the rings & stuck them in their grooves.
Every google search seemed to back that theory, so it became a static exhibit until I could find time to sort it.
I pulled it to bits today & got a very pleasant surprise.
The head gasket had blown into the oil drain holes from the head & it was blowing compression into them & sucking oil back out of them on intake.
I pulled the barrel off to & found the rings carbonized into their grooves from all the oil & the gudeon bush was rotating in the conrod (unrelated)
I cleaned out the ring grooves, polished the gudeon pin in the lathe, cleaned the rod & bush & put a bit of loctite on it & lined the oil hole up.
Gave the bore a quick hone in the lathe with wet & dry & bolted it all back together using the old head gasket with a smear of loctite 510 on it that I used to do the cam box to head joints on air cooled Porsches with.
Might take a look at the other side tomorrow before that blows too.
I see the fork boots have pulled apart from three years of sitting on the main stand. Lucky they're the same as the /5 & /6 ones & are easy to get.

[JimO]

just finishing off my new floor

[JimO]

105m2 of oak flooring

[husaberg]

I don't know how to change the orientation of that picture.

Mate can you draw a cartoon of what that rear suspension is up to on a sheet of paper, take a pic & put it up.
I can't fathom it from the pics.

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[Ian Staples]

Made a couple of decisions. Dont try and hide my terrible welding, and dont clean or paint anything I didn't make or modify....

I'm high on tramadol because of my spine, but I kinda like the result at the moment.

I like it. are you going to certify it for the road ? trackers look like they would be a bit of fun to zip around city streets.

[Ian Staples]

The local polytech used to be the place for night courses for hobbyists. Some mates did so & learnt heaps. Wish I'd gone but I couldn't afford a MIG at the time. Now most courses are aimed at getting you a job and extracting as much money from you at the same time.

I'm still terrible, like really bad, but YouTube does make me think there is hope. Problem is I keep putting off practice & only fire it up when I want to glue some bits of metal together.
Badly.

Still the swing chair will need a rebuild next spring so maybe I'll get some more practice on that.

Back in the 80's I learnt to tig weld at the hutt valley polytech night school. It was well worth it and they encouraged you to bring your own project . it was the same here in Wanganui and then the powers to be decided that we need more glass blowers and flax weavers so the started those courses and shut down all of the trade related courses. Can't say I have ever seen a situations vacant ad for a glass blower or flax weaver.....don't get me started!!

[F5 Dave]

105m2 of oak flooring

Well that looks pretty. So is it covering or ripped up and start again? Pretty convincing if it isn't.

[JimO]

Well that looks pretty. So is it covering or ripped up and start again? Pretty convincing if it isn't.

its engineered flooring so 4mm of french oak on 11mm ply, over the existing TnG, all glued down not floating

[jellywrestler]

Can't say I have ever seen a situations vacant ad for a glass blower or flax weaver.....don't get me started!!

p pipe makers don't usually advertise

[Ian Staples]

p pipe makers don't usually advertise

a guy at work knows someone who only did the glass blowers coarse so he could make bongs

[Drew]

I like it. are you going to certify it for the road ? trackers look like they would be a bit of fun to zip around city streets.

Yeah mate. I want to kick around on it.