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Just to give me something to do, I've decided to fit an electronic ignition to my 74 TX. I had a Boyer on a Triumph Bonny I had back,in the 90, it worked well, was easy to set up and time and I never had any problems. But this time I thought I'd trY a Trispark. Trispark are at Blackwood a...

Guess what this is. Spent an hour or so this afternoon spinning this up. I nearly stuffed it up: After drilling the 3mm hole I backed off the tailstock, but the chuck came free and the piece was ripped out of the chuck. Luckily, no damage other than a bit of a knock on the knurling. I...

It appears there are a couple of scammers on this group.

It appears there are a couple of scammers on this group.

Now, nothing from Japan can compete with this kind of beauty! Not even when it's wearing a breadbox tank...

I’ve just set up my new workshop heater. Previously I was using a kero heater, but apparently it was smelly, not that I could tell, that’s why I tell everyone ‘my $#!t don’t stink’. Funnily enough, the wife disagrees! The new heater is called a parking heater for some reason, and are very...

I bought a couple of 90 degree fuel outlet barbss for the petcocks a while back, I thought it might make it easier to connect the fuel hoses. Hah, so much for that:. These things are a bugger, impossible to get the barbs pointing horizontally and impossible to stop them turning around when...

I made a couple of small sensor brackets out of 2mm ally today, fitted one at the front under an ally U chanel. The other bracket and sensor is fitted on the cross slide and the magnetic strip stuck on the base of the mill. If swarf presents a problem its a minor job to fabricate a guard over...

I did I say unusual, downright strange. https://old.xs650.org.au/offbeat.html

This is an interesting build by the XS650.club in OZ. Some very interesting work being done on this bike. https://old.xs650.org.au/Club%20Racer%20Stuff/Club%20Racer.htm

I bought this DRO on aliexpress with the intention of fitting it to my lathe. Changed my mind and I'm now fitting it to my mill. I have the X axis fitted and a bracket made for the readout, tomorrow I'll mount the readout and look at fitting the Y feed axis. It's actually for woodworking as...

Since installing the new dual output coil, the plug cables have been annoying me, flopping around under the tank. If there's one thing I don't like, it's unneat. So,,I made these two little brackets that attach to the valve covers to thread the plug cable through. Much more neaterer now.

A couple of minor mods: The brake lever was just scraping the side of the exhaust bracket, so I bent it out a little to clear the exhaust bracket then bent the end part in a bit to get the foot plate back to it's original position. The slot in the sidestand had expanded a little allowing the...

Don't know if I've shared this video of the finished product, but, here it is - again!.

I modified an old clutch screw actuator a whie back, extending the lever by 5MM, from 35mm to 40mm. As a matter of interest today I measured how much the screw actuator moves the clutch pushrod: the stock screw actuator moves the rod 1,4mm, the modified one moves it 1,1mm. this seems very...

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After the failed hydraulic clutch foray I had to repair the clutch cover and return it to original. In fitting the hydraulic slave I bored the hole for the actuator from 26 to 29 mm and the mounting screw holes, which were originally tapped M5 were drilled out to take a 6mm allen head and the...

I made a 25mm clutch slave cylinder a while back and bought a 9.5 mm master cylinder to use with it. I hooked everything up, but in testing it found I only had 1mm movement on the slave cylinder piston, so, obvioisly the 25 mm piston slave cylinder was to big. I had a couple of 20mm hydraulic...

Yesterday I made another twin lobe points cam. The original I made worked fine, but was slightly out, so I did a little more filing, too much ask it turned out, a few swipes with a file took it past the midway point on the backing plate adjustment.. I've made a few of these points cam, very...