Diff'rent Strokers

Cal · Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 62 Location: Bristol

Arlurt,

I think you will finish before I do, do you have a lathe and a mill?
I apprenticed as a fitter/turner.

I think the bars on mine are called Ace bars.

Cal · Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 62 Location: Bristol

Another attempt at a photo, I took loads but they haven't uploaded.
Starts with http
Ends in jpg
And has [img] at the start and [/img] at the end.

Took the clutch cover off. It all looks original and unworn.

Cal · Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 62 Location: Bristol

Now instead of a picture I get blue box with ? in it!!!

1975-S1C · Joined: 25 Feb 2013 Posts: 22 Location: Bristol

Hi Cal,

You are just up the road from me then. I am in Bradley Stoke.

Glad you seem to be making some progress there. Hope it's just the top end that's seized up and not the bottom end too.
Anyways, once you get her freed up, if you need any help with anything just give me a shout. I don't say I'm an expert by any means, but I can certainly strip/clean carbs, set up points / timing etc
If I can be of any help, just shout amigo.

There's a pic of my bike in this section under the thread called 'Newbie'

Cheers
Paul

1975-S1C · Joined: 25 Feb 2013 Posts: 22 Location: Bristol

Here's a more recent one taken at Aztec West Business Park.

Looking forward to seeing your bike back on the road. Would be good to have another triple owner local.
Cheers
Paul

arlurt · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:56 pm Post subject:

The chrome was shot on my petrol filler cap, so (20 years ago) I stripped it to paint it.

Who'd have thought there were so many bits in a petrol cap!?

Now it's back together I seem to have a couple of springs and screws left, so maybe they were't all part of it after all.
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Cal · Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 62 Location: Bristol

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1975-S1C · Joined: 25 Feb 2013 Posts: 22 Location: Bristol

Hi Cal,

Try copying the img code from photobucket and then paste that into a post. That's what I do and it seems to work just fine.

Hoping to hear soon that the Lhs piston has decided to free up for you.

Keep in touch
Paul

arlurt · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:22 am Post subject:

Hi Cal,

I did a "Craft" apprenticeship as well, a long time ago.

I've got an old Grayson model engineer's lathe, probably 1940s I think. It'll swing about 5" and about 18" between centres. It's a bit rattly but good enough for the bits that I do.
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arlurt · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 7:52 pm Post subject:

Slowly making progress, Fork sliders stripped and repainted. I had a hell of a job getting the old fork seals out, eventually had to drill and punch them in on themselves to get them out.

Tonight I've had the soldering iron out with a bit of old coat hanger to weld up a crack on one of the side panels. Seems to have gone OK, a bit of filler and another rub down and it will be ready for paint.

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Cal · Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 62 Location: Bristol

Good job that man!

I took the side cover off to try and bar the motor over to force the lhs piston free and happy days it looks like it is the first time that it has been off and everything, (for once) looks OK!

And I am posting this from a laptop and it previews OK too!!!

Cal · Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 62 Location: Bristol

There is a nice bike under all that grime.

Cal · Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 62 Location: Bristol

I think the problem might have been posting picture from my mobile, as I seem to be able to post them from the laptop.

More cleaning to do....

Thing is most of it is there, and most of it is original, so I hope to keep it as original as possible.

arlurt · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 9:37 am Post subject:

Pleased to see work is underway Cal.

The clutch looks good, have you been able to free off the stuck pot yet?

I was lucky that mine can't have been stuck that hard. It wouldn't rock free in gear, but did free off with a socket wrench on the generator nut.

Good luck with it.
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