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A 1975! This is awesome. I'm impressed. I like to be impressed. I especially like to be impressed by people from other countries. Very cool.
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Time to lean, time to clean! Nice work
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New stuff arrived the other day. Ignition coils in the mailbox. I made a new bracket for them at work today and are now trying to figure out how to mount them. Upside down or downside up. It is a bit tight with the cables either way. Not a big problem, really a nice problem to rest my head with during slow times at work.

//A
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My goal for monday night was to install my new coils, fill up the cooling system, get the bike started and sort out the last pieces of electrics (again?!?).

I made it! A small fire in the carb plenum and some rewireing on the way there. Engine started up nice and strong. Electrics works OK, I changed all bulbs to LED in the instruments and trying out a LED H4 for the head lamp.

After start up I installed the Dyna S ignition and had it running again. One carb is overflowing for some reason but the engine runs on all four and sounds strong.

Thats it for now.

//A
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I had one of those "small fires" once. I don't think anything gets the old adrenalin pumping in the garage quicker than a "small fire".

Glad it stayed small. Nice work. Which coils are those?
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Quite a few hours labour this weekend. Started with delacing, painting and relacing the front wheel. New tires front and back. Got the wheels on the bike and lifted it off my engine trolley. It now stands on its own wheels. Next is the carbs out and check why it is overflowing. Probably float level.

I ordered a pair of fork caps from China, 37mm, but they did not fit, too big. Does anyone know where to source new ones. Aftermarket is not a problem, just something...

It really starts to look like I’ll have it running and ready for MOT this spring.

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Looks great, are those new spokes?
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Hello!

Yes, Easter, new spokes front and back. A really time and mind consumig task but since I like that kind of fiddly work I had a great time doing it.

Todays experiment included sand, acetyhlene, oxygen, aluminium, some wood and concentration. I am missing one of the blue emblems on the valve covers. I have seen people making their own emblems so I thougt that I would give it a try.

I made a wooden flask, made a mould of the emblem I had by filling the flask with sand. First try was melted tin, easy to work with and easy to get a good result but impossible to get a shiny surface an tin is to soft anyway.

Second try with aluminium gave a better result. Buffing and painting left.

//Anders
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Fun! I did a lot of sand casting years ago in my first year of college (jewelry/metalworking class). Cast a lot of bronze stuff...oddly, I made a reproduction of a Chrysler Imperial hood ornament that I made into a keychain... Also did a lot of investment casting (rings and such...mostly sterling silver). I built a pit forge in the back yard a few years ago, and it gets hot enough to forge steel...one of these summers I'm going to make a charcoal furnace for making my own bronze so we can sand cast stuff. My kids want to make spear heads or some other type of weapon :lol: .
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Wow, that sound like a happy place. It was fun experimenting with molted metal. I have been "black smithing" on and off through the years but this was new. As Pippi Longstockings said "that is something I've never tried, so I can surely do it".

This is how it turned out after sanding and buffing. Have to find a similar blue paint.

/A
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Wow, that's cool.
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Looks great. Thanks for the demo. I remember Pipi Longstocking --but from where?
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I’m stuck!

Out of time and paint. Can’t anything to the wing for a while. I need a few days to prepare and paint the cowls and I don’t have those days right now.

So I brought back an old project. My 8:th grade students and me started this Suzuki K50 moped project a couple of years ago. The kids started with enthusiasm but it all faded as the months passed by. I got it home and sort of finished it and rode it to a friend. There the gearbox jammed and has been there for a few months now. Gearbox is now fixed, self mending type?, and it runs as strong as it looks. It can only jump 14 busses though...

To be able to sell it I need to sort the lights and to do that it has to be converted in to 12v, instead of the current 6V system. It is hard to find small 6V LED lights. Easier to source a 12V regulator.

So, that’s it for now
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A fork brace showed up on an auction site and I got my hands on it really cheap. But, as always. Everything seemes to end up as a bodgeing project for me. The brace was listed for gl1000 but has to be for the newer models, not my 75. The bridge is too narrow and too low, needs shims to fit the fork bottoms. Aluminium slabs are on its way to build risers and a longer bridge over the fender. I have now polished the parts and made a wood mock up while waiting for the aluminium parts.

Still experimenting with a good paint for the valve cover emblems. I have tried nailpolish, glass paint and a candy airbrush paint with crappy result. Next will be transparent glass enamel that get baked in the owen. Waiting for that to drop down in the mailbox.

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