Projects At Home During Lockdown

[HenryDorsetCase]

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!!

that glass casting course is internationally recognised and has produced some amazing artists and artwork. It isn't a binary "we must have welding or glass casting/blowing" - ideally we would have both. I've got some bits and bobs from people who have been thru that course. They are amazing.

[Drew]

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.

This is how it works.

[jellywrestler]

This is how it works.

and there's two ways a camera works, you can try this if you can't turn the piccie around before posting on the internaughty, it does it for you mate.

[jellywrestler]

that glass casting course is internationally recognised and has produced some amazing artists and artwork. It isn't a binary "we must have welding or glass casting/blowing" - ideally we would have both. I've got some bits and bobs from people who have been thru that course. They are amazing.

this is a motorbike forum, have yet to see a thread on a glass made motorcycle here.... seen a lot on welding though.
we live in an interesting time, wonder how many new coffee carts pop up trying to suck money out of the people too lazy to even make their own, wonder how many dissapear when people actually realise it's wasted money and times are tight and they can actually make their own....

[Grumph]

This is how it works.

If the proportions are correct, I hope you've duplicated the link arms running forward. Load at their connection point to the arm is roughly 3 times the load on the axle. Possibly higher.

I wouldn't be in a hurry to offer Spyda or me a ride. Let alone the really fat bastards club.

[merv]

I wouldn't be in a hurry to offer Spyda or me a ride. Let alone the really fat bastards club.

I wondered about, that and also seeing the seat sticking out without any support bracing, and hoped Drew doesn't want to carry a fat chick on the back

[jellywrestler]

I wondered about, that and also seeing the seat sticking out without any support bracing, and hoped Drew doesn't want to carry a fat chick on the back

nah he pays then for half an hour, has a shower then fucks off

[Bonez]

My trusty old Compaq CDS524, 486DX2/66 has finally hit the dust. No beeps,memory count, keyboard led flashing, no floppy drive seek. The cdrom and hard drive leds flashed as usual. I knew the bios battery was long dead so replaced that with a replaceable coin cell holder but no go. Replaced cpu, ram, power cord and still not a sound,. RIP old girl. You served me well. Had it since about 1998. I've stripped all the useful bits, which I'll test out individually, I can use in other systems and have a Pentium 75 in the same form factor as the CDS524 I can use other bits n bobs on.

[Drew]

If the proportions are correct, I hope you've duplicated the link arms running forward. Load at their connection point to the arm is roughly 3 times the load on the axle. Possibly higher.

I wouldn't be in a hurry to offer Spyda or me a ride. Let alone the really fat bastards club.

That picture is not to scale. But the loading on the link is increased still.

[Drew]

I wondered about, that and also seeing the seat sticking out without any support bracing, and hoped Drew doesn't want to carry a fat chick on the back

It's plenty tough.

[sidecar bob]

It's plenty tough.

Looks like a Britten.

[husaberg]

It's plenty tough.

Looks like a Britten.

what i suggest to fill in the rear gap

[sidecar bob]

I spent most of today doing the R/H head gasket on the 50/2 & sorting the timing & carb balance.
It was well worth the effort, it was just starting to suck oil up the return gallery on the right hand head gasket.
These bikes are prone to getting different timing advance from left to right & I've been aware that mine wasn't correct for some time.
I actually thought that's what had caused it to start smoking in the first place.
Anyway, I spent most of the afternoon sitting on a box, with an ohms meter across the points, hitting shit with a hammer, checking left & right timing & repeating until I got it down from over 12 degrees difference, to within one degree.
Heres the info I was working from, interesting read, but fairly useless unless you have a magneto equipped BMW twin.
http://w6rec.com/duane/bmw/timing/index.htm

[Ian Staples]

Here is a close up of my rear suspension . Nothing clever here just a copy of an xr69 except with my ratios

[Drew]

There's nothing clever about my suspension. It doesn't differ from any linkage system, other than lying down.