Projects At Home During Lockdown

[sidecar bob]

I feel like for stuff I've never done, it might perhaps be advantageous to ask first.

Though, my yard is riverbed so there are no soft spots for bashing plate into shape.

http://restosupplies.co.nz/sandbag
Heres a bag & mallet combo for those that don't have a lawn.
, I can't see any tutorial clips on tube, but you get the picture.
Heres an old mallet on TM, comes with a couple of useful but completely unrelated items.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketpl...ing/2597060725

[Drew]

Well, I buttoned up the last of my list today and travelled 13km as a test ride.

It's a hoot to ride.but I really really need a muffler. I made a washer stack baffle in a bit of pipe to quieten it at least a little bit, but it isn't enough.

[pete376403]

First attempt at home vapour blasting. Ebay supplied nozzle and pickup for the karcher waterblaster. It (the nozzle kit) was cheap and (mostly) works. The hose from the nozzle to the media pickup is soft and collapses under the very moderate suction. Easy enough to replace with something better. I picked up a 4 litre bucket of sand from the river, and sieved it to get a consistently fine mix (kitchen sieve). Sand from the beach would be easier but I was concerned about the salt.

Did half the GS cam cover and half the sump to get an idea. Might be a bit savage on delicate items such as carbs but the cover and sump don't look too bad. Supercheap do other media such as glass beads but at $55/10kg I'd want to have some way of collecting the spray. The water/sand mix just went onto the lawn.

[jellywrestler]

First attempt at home vapour blasting. Ebay supplied nozzle and pickup for the karcher waterblaster. It (the nozzle kit) was cheap and (mostly) works. The hose from the nozzle to the media pickup is soft and collapses under the very moderate suction. Easy enough to replace with something better. I picked up a 4 litre bucket of sand from the river, and sieved it to get a consistently fine mix (kitchen sieve). Sand from the beach would be easier but I was concerned about the salt.

Did half the GS cam cover and half the sump to get an idea. Might be a bit savage on delicate items such as carbs but the cover and sump don't look too bad. Supercheap do other media such as glass beads but at $55/10kg I'd want to have some way of collecting the spray. The water/sand mix just went onto the lawn.

rollrich in petone do media, can't recall the cost but it was cheaperer.

[jellywrestler]

Well, I buttoned up the last of my list today and travelled 13km as a test ride.

It's a hoot to ride.but I really really need a muffler. I made a washer stack baffle in a bit of pipe to quieten it at least a little bit, but it isn't enough.

just head left then left out your drive to naenae, you won't need a muffler, no other cunt has one and besides you won't hear it anyway over the police sirens that are always on over there.

[sidecar bob]

First attempt at home vapour blasting. Ebay supplied nozzle and pickup for the karcher waterblaster. It (the nozzle kit) was cheap and (mostly) works. The hose from the nozzle to the media pickup is soft and collapses under the very moderate suction. Easy enough to replace with something better. I picked up a 4 litre bucket of sand from the river, and sieved it to get a consistently fine mix (kitchen sieve). Sand from the beach would be easier but I was concerned about the salt..

It's ok to get from the beach.
I know a bloke that gets salt sand & rinses it in a bucket with the garden hose by poking the running hose to the bottom of the bucket numerous times & letting the bucket overflow, then throwing the sand onto a freshly swept piece of driveway in the sun.

[husaberg]

First attempt at home vapour blasting. Ebay supplied nozzle and pickup for the karcher waterblaster. It (the nozzle kit) was cheap and (mostly) works. The hose from the nozzle to the media pickup is soft and collapses under the very moderate suction. Easy enough to replace with something better. I picked up a 4 litre bucket of sand from the river, and sieved it to get a consistently fine mix (kitchen sieve). Sand from the beach would be easier but I was concerned about the salt.

Did half the GS cam cover and half the sump to get an idea. Might be a bit savage on delicate items such as carbs but the cover and sump don't look too bad. Supercheap do other media such as glass beads but at $55/10kg I'd want to have some way of collecting the spray. The water/sand mix just went onto the lawn.

i worked once for a concrete firm years ago as a tester an we got all our sand and agg's off the beach we it was washed and never tested positive for salt.

prior to that the company on rainy days used to sieve the sand and tumble dry it and sell it for blasting.
people dont use dry sand anymore on account of the risk of silicosis.

[sidecar bob]

I finished the RS125 today.
Serviced the calipers, put them on & flushed new fluid through, took the wheels out & cleaned inside the swingarm, & sprockets.
Cleaned the bodywork & treated it with armour all on the inside, bolted it on & polished it on the outside, pumped the tyres up & ran it up hot.
Went to the end if the street & back a couple of times, as I deemed it essential travel.
That's the first time ive ridden it in around five years, I've been so flat out with other stuff, that's why my bikes have all ended up in a bit of a shit state.
Next up on the block '86 GSXR1100G.
I made this 4x6x10mm dowel for a mates race bike engine. Quite time consuming making tiny stuff without messing up. Apparently we need two now.
I also helped a mate un seize the handbrake on his factory's forklift, that had been left on for nearly a month & rusted the linings to the drum.

[caspernz]

i worked once for a concrete firm years ago as a tester an we got all our sand and agg's off the beach we it was washed and never tested positive for salt.

prior to that the company on rainy days used to sieve the sand and tumble dry it and sell it for blasting.
people dont use dry sand anymore on account of the risk of silicosis.

Plenty of sand is sucked up off-shore and merely de-watered before going concrete mixes.
In some locations it might sit on a de-watering cone for a spell, and the boys from the lab are happy it ends up within spec.

[nzspokes]

Let me just share something. The ONLY reason H & S got any traction in this country is when the penalties were changed to make company directors personally liable for failings. That was in 2016 but the stuff that got the headlines was the potential for five years imprisonment and $600k fines (yes SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) - and $3M for the company. I know a few people in manufacturing, including my brother who runs a very successful business and they spent a lot of money sorting stuff out. That they all admitted was long overdue.

Having said that, the gap between that and actual enforcement seems to be somewhat lacking - I know someone whose father was killed in a truck yard here. No prosecution because it wasnt a dead sitter. Piss poor decision in my view.

This is the new reality, and all you grumpy old cunts crying in your beers can kiss my shiny arse.

But 700 folk dying a year is a compelling reason to bring in such laws.

[caspernz]

But 700 folk dying a year is a compelling reason to bring in such laws.

Yep, nobody is gonna argue with that logic.

Level playing field by effective and consistent enforcement is missing though.

[Kickaha]

Valves for the BSA turned up, 30 days out of the UK so not too bad given what's going on around the world, might help me get back some of the compressions I seem to have lost somewhere

[HenryDorsetCase]

But 700 folk dying a year is a compelling reason to bring in such laws.

We agree with each other.

[sidecar bob]

Valves for the BSA turned up, 30 days out of the UK so not too bad given what's going on around the world, might help me get back some of the compressions I seem to have lost somewhere

I've been waiting for a fuel pump for a 851 from the US for a month now.
That valve didn't like unleaded. It's been spot welding itself to the seat & pulling a chunk out next time it opens.

[F5 Dave]

If it was for a FZR they would have sent it straight away. But for the Dookaatie they age them for a bit on the dispatch shelf to give the customers the exotic bike 'experience '.