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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: YUMASTEPSIDE on October 16, 2007, 06:48:19 am
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It never ceases to amaze me.........bush mechanics come up with the most amazing feats of engineering mastery to solve the seemingly unsolvable....and then there's these............
Those are tek-screws holding the guard to the seat!
I have actually seen a bloke who cut the plastic number plate off an IT headlight and tek-screwed it to his helmet for a peak !!!
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You've got to love the rubber front guard. That bugger would never break on ya. You'd have a shitload of bush remedies like those in that amazing yard of yours wouldn't you Roger? Anybody got any more?
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I de-coked a DT250 piston as part of a tune up. Hit the top of the piston with the wire wheel of the bench grinder and 'what this grey stuff under the black' ???. There was a hole in the piston as big as a 20 cent piece filled in with yucky putty of one type or the other ::).
Not my bike; put it back in. Run fine. Couldn't pick the difference. I know it run for many thousands of k's of trail riding without faulty. 8)
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i wonder if that front guard is available in different tread patterns?
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What pattern ya want? Sporty ,Winter, Off roader, Truck, Slick, any one you like*! just send me $500.00 each* and I will post back for free. ( Please allow couple of days for me to visit dump, source correct style and manufacture........* Knobbies $1000.00 Surcharge Tim ;)
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Truth beknow they are all Rogers creationns- right roggy :)
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i hate this stuff! :) i gotta fix all those sort of bodgy jobs someone once thought was good at the time. im sure everyones had the old gearlever/kickstarter welded to the shafts problem but they are certainly not the worst you can come across!!!
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im sure everyones had the old gearlever/kickstarter welded to the shafts ......
or the counter shaft sprocket ::) >:(
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had an RM125 with the exhaust and engine mounts welded to the frame.. that was a goody..those dang bolts are always falling out..had a screw driver for a rear mount too..it was hammered in there nice and tight :D
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I don't know whats so funny about the tyre mud guard, I had one of those on my Honda Dream back in 75. It was always a drama keeping it running on both cylinders but that rear guard never gave me any trouble. More unbreakable than a Preston Petty ;D
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My dad was one of the best (worst?) for bush engineering with his countless projects. Ever since I can remember we had this BSA engine (M20 I think) in the back of the shed that he had turned into a stationary engine. It had no other purpose in life than to brought out into daylight every couple of years, started up & left to vibrate it's way around the floor for 15 minutes then put to the back of the shed again.
Hasn't been running now for a couple of decades, must start it up & tell my son it's a family tradition.
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/gmcloa/BSAengine-2.jpg)
One time he wanted to build a sidecar for his Goldwing as he had this thing for sidecars that only Tim could understand ;D
He couldn't build just any old sidecar though, his had to have a steering sidecar wheel. He pieced it together from old car tie-rod ends for linkages, a stub axle from a car & whatever else was laying around.
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/gmcloa/Dadsidecar-6.jpg)
Complete with leaf spring.
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/gmcloa/Dadsidecar-8.jpg)
Then he had to reduce the "trail" to help it steer.
"Finesse" & "state of the art" were not words I ever heard in a sentence with my father.
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One day his false teeth broke, the plate broke in half, & he had a quote of a couple hundred dollars to replace them (this was decades ago). Bugger that he said, I can bloody make my own for much cheaper.
A few days later I came home to find a Holden bell housing that I was saving for no particular reason out the front of the shed with a piece smashed out of it. Shit, what happend to that I thought as I looked in the shed. Here was dad waving the oxy over a small steel pot on a long handle, he finished of a can of Diet-Ale then crushed it & put that in the pot too. What are you doing I asked nervously, "mahing my mew feef" he said while speaking without teeth.
Seemed he had glued his old plate back together to use to make a sand mold, He poured them a few times till he had a good cast with no porosity cavities(all puns intended) He then sanded them with wet & dry & got them chromed.
We called him "jaws" after the guy in the Bond films, allthough I don't know if anyone called him that to his face ;D
He eventually had to get a proper set as they turned out to be too heavy to keep in place.
We buried dad just over a year ago now but I kept his teeth & they take pride of place on the mantle piece.
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/gmcloa/DadsTeeth002.jpg)
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;D ;D
"Bugger that I can make my own for much cheaper"
What a classic, with those chrome gnashers he would have been the envy of every wannabe gangster rapper.
;D ;D
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Great yarn, GMC, a ripper ! Re the stationary engine, my dad had one identical right down to the fuel tank and the rusty-can style muffler, except he had it hooked up by belt to an enormous saw blade which he would fire up 3 or 4 times each winter for the firewood, you could hear the blade whistling two blocks away as the mighty single roared, from memory it had a butterfly carb with a large, clear sight glass float bowl. Thanks for sharing, brought back a happy grin..
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sounds like your old man was a true aussie character !
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Great dad inventions ,keep them going GMC.
My dad has shorn sheep in WA all his life .When he bought a small property he had no means of shearing his own sheep.As most old blokes do he sat on a drum and rubbed his chin. :o Then spotted the whipper snipper.
Don't have photo, but he modified the shaft and attached his shearing head to it.The motor is tied to a post above where he shears.He just has to stand on that drum to start it. 8)
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Someone was throwing out an old stationary engine, Bamford I think, so my Dad grabbed it & restored it. It was a water cooled model so he stuck a Mini radiator to it, it sat doing nothing for a while until the motor on the bench grinder shit itself, it was an old school belt driven unit. So he attached the Bamford to a shaft down the middle of the shed & the bench grinder was then belt driven from this. Everytime you wanted to grind something you had to get the crank handle & wind the beast up. The only thing worse than starting it was trying to stop it. You had to press a button on the magneto, but with it's big flywheels it kept rolling on for ages, if your finger got tired from holding the button down & it was still turning over at 0.5 RPM it would bloody fire back into life again. It ended up easier just to grab a file.
The old thumper did sound great though.
he modified the shaft and attached his shearing head to it.
he had it hooked up by belt to an enormous saw blade
Great to hear some other fathers were as bad as mine and I was not alone.
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GMC, Great stuff ,the sidecar steering looks like it worked, i hope it did,As for the teeth, bloody brilliant, Cheers KB.
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I now know where the mad professor/twisted genius side to your personality comes from Geoff ;D! Somehow, I'm pretty certain that I would have liked your Dad.
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a little gem I just spotted on egay.. 8)
(http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/4121/rm80tcb1.jpg)
it's actually a 1977 RM80B...B for Bantam :D
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GD Umm I still use an ancient JAP single with sight glass etc etc on my firewood saw bench............. I will send a couple of piccies to Graeme maybe he will post them as it is all class ::) Tim
[Here ya go Tim - GM]
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Yes KB, the sidecar did work & he rode it quite a few times. It was a bit harsh on the rear spokes though & tore them all loose, not sure if it was the steering action or the weight of the sidecar. Easy fixed though, Dad took the spokes & rim off, made up some steel discs to bolt to the hub onto which he welded a car rim, fitted up with a small cross ply car tyre. He was always on about cross ply tyres being better than radials.
When the home of 30+ years was sold up he threw a lot of stuff down the tip including the sidecar. He was on his way to the tip with one of my brothers cars, which he reckoned had been in a state of restoration for too many years, lucky my brother was passing through an intersection the same time as Dad & he managed to salvage his car :o
I did grab his charcoal burner project before he managed to dump it.
One of my other brothers ended up with the Goldwing after Dad decided he should quit riding after reaching 80. But then he went & bought a CB 250 & managed to ride the smaller bike for another couple of years. Its still fitted with that rear wheel & modded front end. He may be interested in a good rear wheel if any one knows of one.
Our sawbench was a "modern one", it had a big mother of a 480 volt motor.
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something not right about this hill billy kick start collection :-\
(http://www.vintagemx.us/images/roach/roach65_3.jpg)
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The true "shot gun Exhaust "
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Hey Geoff,
That 'teeth' story was one of the best I have ever heard - what a bloody character. He would have gotten on like a house on fire with my Grandfather. I had a mental picture of him pulling up at the lights on the Goldwing and flashing a big toothy smile at some old lady in a Hillman Imp.
VMX42
P.S. I am glad your old man had bad teeth and not erectile dysfunction...????
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might have posted this before,but it is a pipe from a DS80 repaired by a local farmer
look out GMC,he may be stiff competition ;),it should take a while to rust out next time ;D
(http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mhplum/Rotationofworkshop001.jpg)
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Here it is Freaky, :o put your tin can motor here ;D
any more ideas anyone ???
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might have posted this before,but it is a pipe from a DS80 repaired by a local farmer
look out GMC,he may be stiff competition ;),it should take a while to rust out next time ;D
(http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mhplum/Rotationofworkshop001.jpg)
Fantastic job. Love it. Good ol dad keeping the kids bike going. Top stuff.
Freaky, those kick starts look a lot some ive seen out here. Again, great work keeping the old farm shitter going. I just hate dicks with welders who use them sharfts >:(
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Today we headed out to the new MX track being constructed within the old unused Speedway track and discovered this Water Truck filling system. ;D
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and in the back seat,where it all happened :o ;D (it actually worked a couple of years ago).
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I reckon that classic Zephyr is savable. A couple of patches in the floor, a coat of suede black, a 272 Cusso/3 speed combo and a Transit diff centre and the cruise nights in Buttplug, WA will never be the same again.
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i used to ride a bridgestone 90 when i was a kid it only had the engine pipe as an exhaust,very noisey so i stuffed steel wool up the pipe and hammered in a socket to hold it in place.it made the bike a lot quieter but also slowed it down a fair bit.not that it was fast to start with :D
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.........they're still out there ;D ;D ;D
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Roger
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(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/vmx247/Ben003.jpg)
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Some distant relative’s contraption, Dads second cousins or something (not distant enough)
No idea why but reason is not usually considered when building something.
Cops would have pink fits if they saw this on the roads nowadays
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/gmcloa/Misc%202/Trike-2_zps4507bce9.jpg)
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Well aside from one slightly bald front tyre .....
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Shame half the photos have been deleted on this topic.
Though have come across this one !! Any ideas on the pipe ?? :o
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/vmx247/20140420_155525_zps65a6e95d.jpg) (http://s146.photobucket.com/user/vmx247/media/20140420_155525_zps65a6e95d.jpg.html)
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just looking at the "contraption" reminded me of one "ol mate" made down the road from our place. he was hell on wheels and was always hooning big time. He ended up with a Cortina effectively stripped to the chassis with a seat and steering wheel. it had a 302 shoe horned in and he smoked the tyres everywhere all over the district.
His great trick was to run down all the "new" plastic white posts on one particular strip of road and did this regularly until one of the locals got pissed off with noise and slipped a star picket behind one of the posts.... that was the end of the rocket....
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Someone was throwing out an old stationary engine, Bamford I think, so my Dad grabbed it & restored it. It was a water cooled model so he stuck a Mini radiator to it, it sat doing nothing for a while until the motor on the bench grinder shit itself, it was an old school belt driven unit. So he attached the Bamford to a shaft down the middle of the shed & the bench grinder was then belt driven from this. Everytime you wanted to grind something you had to get the crank handle & wind the beast up. The only thing worse than starting it was trying to stop it. You had to press a button on the magneto, but with it's big flywheels it kept rolling on for ages, if your finger got tired from holding the button down & it was still turning over at 0.5 RPM it would bloody fire back into life again. It ended up easier just to grab a file.
The old thumper did sound great though.
Thanks for sharing mate, talk about laughing, I couldn't stop, bloody funny. (Y)
he modified the shaft and attached his shearing head to it.
he had it hooked up by belt to an enormous saw blade
Great to hear some other fathers were as bad as mine and I was not alone.
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Shame half the photos have been deleted on this topic.
Though have come across this one !! Any ideas on the pipe ?? :o
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/vmx247/20140420_155525_zps65a6e95d.jpg) (http://s146.photobucket.com/user/vmx247/media/20140420_155525_zps65a6e95d.jpg.html)
That'll be similar to or even might be KB's thermos muffler!
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That'll be similar to or even might be KB's thermos muffler!
ye be the winner. 8) note : don't leave your drink vessel at your mates :)
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I was looking at that silencer thumbing my chin and thought hmmm. Stewy ( oldfart)wouldnt have to cart his primus stove and kettle around for his cuppa if he had one of those things. Three laps and tea is made. ;D