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Title: Eerie
Post by: yamaico on December 11, 2013, 03:45:21 pm
Working in a steel plant in Vietnam on a strip cooling upgrade. Every time I walk up the steps to where the equipment is I get a niggling feeling that I should be at home working on the pipes for my RD flat tracker. Can't quite put my finger on why.....

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Title: Re: Eerie
Post by: firko on December 11, 2013, 03:58:42 pm
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D 8)
Title: Re: Eerie
Post by: mick25 on December 11, 2013, 04:02:27 pm
Looks like a big bore pipe 8)  I can see why you want to come home and build the pipe ;)
Title: Re: Eerie
Post by: Mick D on December 11, 2013, 04:36:46 pm
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You know its only Chrissy time home sickness blues Pete,
So get your ass and your head down and back in to it before you get blamed for the collapse of the Vietnamese economy ;D ::)
Title: Re: Eerie
Post by: VMX Andrew on December 11, 2013, 05:29:08 pm
Looks a bit like the GMC pipe ive got on my 77 Maico  :)
Title: Re: Eerie
Post by: yamaico on December 11, 2013, 10:42:29 pm
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You know its only Chrissy time home sickness blues Pete,
So get your ass and your head down and back in to it before you get blamed for the collapse of the Vietnamese economy ;D ::)

You're right Mick, will be good to be home.
My bar bill from last Saturday night will support the Vietnamese economy for many years to come, so no problems there ;D

Looks a bit like the GMC pipe ive got on my 77 Maico  :)

I'd like to see Geoff's jig for that one. ;D
Title: Re: Eerie
Post by: GMC on December 12, 2013, 01:32:45 am
I think that was one of the jigs I lost out the back somewhere ;D

I used to make a lot of that stuff in my apprenticeship, lobster backs and cones all made out of 2 or 3mm stainless and anything from ¾” dia up to 24” dia
I swore after I left that job I would never make another cone again :o
Title: Re: Eerie
Post by: yamaico on December 12, 2013, 03:28:26 am
I swore after I left that job I would never make another cone again :o

How did that work out for you? ;D
Title: Re: Eerie
Post by: SON on December 12, 2013, 05:02:05 am
I swore after I left that job I would never make another cone again :o

How did that work out for you? ;D
Geoff lots of difference if you are making them for VMXers
Pete I'd be getting one of those back street scooter race shops to build the cones for you
Cheaper than Maccas fries, I mean Chips.
Reminds me of my last trip to Asia where I bought a few hand made chambers for peanuts
Then startled the 20 onlookers by cutting the new pipes up with a hacksaw.
Title: Re: Eerie
Post by: yamaico on December 12, 2013, 10:26:51 am
Pete I'd be getting one of those back street scooter race shops to build the cones for you
I'm a very low volume operation Graeme, and actually enjoy making pipes. If I was doing them for others like Geoff I'm sure the novelty would have worn off long ago :)
Title: Re: Eerie
Post by: jimson on December 12, 2013, 02:31:23 pm
The novelty of making cones or pipes ? There's a joke there somewhere. Jimson
Title: Re: Eerie
Post by: Tim754 on December 12, 2013, 03:37:43 pm
Eerie that'd be an eagles nest? 

"The novelty of making cones or pipes ? There's a joke there somewhere. Jimson'     fella have I been biting my tongue not to get one on that... Thanks for taking the lead! ;)
Title: Re: Eerie
Post by: oldyzman on December 12, 2013, 05:11:29 pm
Thats one big expansion chamber!