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Oh, a small note...here I'm heating up the left-hand threads on the sprocket carrier to try to remove them, thinking that they are...
The build has at times been an exercise in managing gumption...some days you are just not into it at all unfortunately. To help with motivation, I...
So I'd bagged and tagged all the fixings from various parts of the bike, and was steadily working through the plating process... [ATTACH] This...
Some good results though, and it's not really practical (£££) to purchase new axles or engine mount bolts... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
As work progressed, I realised I'd made a rod for my own back with a nice shiny new engine...for the frame and cycle parts every single nut, bolt...
Having all your own kit does mean that there is a certain flexibility to try things out.. I thought that Yellow passivated pulley wheels would...
I redid my first attempt at the calliper brake fluid hardware...they had the impression of anodised tat! [ATTACH] Much better: [ATTACH] In...
Also getting the timing right on the Yellow Passivate was tricky, too long and the parts end up looking a little too bling-bling for my tastes!...
It was clear that the plating has to be a process from start to finish, de-greasing, cleaning, plating and chromate... I saw flash rusting if I...
So I engaged in pages and pages of maths.. thankfully I noted the size of each bolt/nut/washer in the calculation, so after the first hundred or...
It is necessary to work out the surface area of all the pieces to be zinc coated in square inches, this it then divided by 10 to give a figure in...
The fantasy of electroplating is that you can just dump all the pieces in the bath in one big plating session...:thinkingface: Unfortunately I was...
So... some more decent progress has been made! I have spent a lot of time with the Gateros plating kit, really learning how to do it correctly. As...
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope your head isn't aching too much. ;)
Very jealous..looks fantastic. Got talking to my boys about our next trip because of your posts..(showed them the photos). We did the GR20 on...
All new original parts! [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
Welcome....there is a 998 for sale in the...for sale section. :upyeah:
Where's that?.. looks like there will be some stunning roads around there! :upyeah:
Sigh...love the mountains. Great pic! Please update with photos and explanations. :upyeah:
I always thought Neil Hodgson used 100?
