Sand blasted tins

Got a call this morning to collect the sand blasted tins. They cleaned up very nicely can see all the dings, and found a cracked bracket on the oil tank.

Tins ready for blasting

Got the tins ready to go to sand blasting. Removed the unnecessary bolts and brackets. Plugged the threaded holes with dowels. Handed them in this morning, will see how it turns out.

Rolling frame

On Friday 27^th December, my big brothers came to help with the bike. 

The plan was to get to a rolling frame. First order was to get the rear wheel which had been laced previously all “squared” and balanced, which Roger has a talent for.

My compressor was repaired by Guy (it had blown the gasket) so that the tubes and tyres could be fitted to both wheels. With some fancy foot work the wheels were given their “tackies”, and look really good.

Fancy foot work!

Then the front forks and steering could be assembled. Found the bearing parts that had been ordered were still not quite correct so one set of race and bearings needs to be re-ordered, but the front end was assembled with the old set for now.

There were 2 handlebars in the boxes I received and we could work out which one is the correct fit.

The bike cam with a quick release rear wheel axel which has quite a few fiddly bits. Seems there is still a locking nut and spacer missing which needs to be sourced.

Checking the rear bearing gaps on the vernier - not an easy task even with glasses!

So the rolling chassis took shape.

Dug out some of the tins to see which fit. There are two tanks with the parts. The tins will need a lot of work and attention.

And then time for a test drive - well sort of  !!!

Where did we put that built up engine again???

Plating

Just noticed the final plated parts arent on the blog. Here they are, very happy with the results.

Steering head

Quite excited to recieve the steering head set in the post today. Bought it off ebay from Supreme Motorcycles.
I can now see I had quite a few bits missing from my bike. The part is a L.F.Harris part.

Hoping to get a chance to fit it during the end of the year break.

Inspiration

Recieved some welcome inspiration from friends Johan and Vanessa. They picked up this triumph during their recent UK travels. :-)

Back wheel

Managed to get the lacing pattern on the back wheel correct after the third attempt! Now just needs to be balanced.