Dirty hands???

Yeah, everyone knows this already, apart from all the people that come to visit me and end up doing messy stuff...

Use washing up liquid / hand washing liquid stuff and as you are rubbing it in prior to mixing it up with water, pour a sachet of sugar in and you make your own lo-cost Tufanega...

Next time you go to a cafe, fill your pockets and keep the sugar sachets close buy the kitchen sink...

+ =

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08 Specialized Langster

Thanks for the tip pash.

I would only use Billingtons Raw Cane though!

i always get the butler to do the oily bits
this manicure cost a fortune

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Feros Ferio

Has willy logged in as Nutah by mistake?

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08 Specialized Langster

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Feros Ferio

Just finished these, made up with them and have got me all inspired again.

TDR250






Buell M2




Andy

They are a bit nice...

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08 Specialized Langster

Nice work Andy.
What's the material spec?

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I started out with nothing and still got most of it left.

I only use 6082 T6 now because of the disasters I've had anodising other grades, only exception are Buell mounts.

I destuction tsted one once and it was unbelievable what it took to break

I love the tdr one, its fired me up and I've loads of new ideas now and a 3d machining package so the skys the limit, lol

Andy

Lovely work the TDR ones are a work of art. Are you running the original M2 forks and hence have left the same amount of metal on the yolks as Buell do? X1 forks for the future maybe?

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Buell S1
Buell S3 (Topless for now)
Buell XB12S
Piaggio X8 400ie
Yamaha XTZ750 Super Tenere (x2)
Suzuki GSXR750WR
BSA B441VS
FJR1300

They will actually be for an x1, I'll say no more than that but originally they were for my M1 but I don't get to keep much, lol.

I've done loads of yokes for X1's etc and 1125R to fit handlebars and to fit an R1 front end, strangly never done anything for an XB.

Andy

I had to post this because I think its cool.
I gave one of the old boys that work for me this part and a load of other tricky stuff to do, he only works 3 days a week now so I save all the shite for him.

Anyway, he made this today from a block of steel, no cnc's where involved, infact no rotary table or anything, the inside part has been made separately and brazed in, I think its ace, how do you replace someone who can do that, in a couple of hours too.









Andy

http://www.oxfordlasers.com/micromachin ... tAodkB8A6g

but seriously keep the old guy

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Buell Ulysses XB12X 06/08

He is well past retirement, he'll leave of his own accord but that will only be as long as he can be arsed, bit like myself, lol

nice to hear that the old guy can plod on , and do a bit , rather than being thrown on the scrapeheap at 65 .
one thing some people fail to realise is the value of decades of experiance and the can do attitude, in my view priceless

tricky stuff or shite can be more interesting than batch runs, keeps the old grey matter working

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Buell Ulysses XB12X 06/08