The Audio-Talk Motorcycling thread.

[jack]

Hmm. For my bike and LR restoration, I've just invested in a zinc plating and passivation setup. Lots of fun...

Also been electrocleaning my nuts prior to plating them (queue DtB)...

[pre65]

To be fair, I'm not a restorer of cars and bikes, but I'm not keen on restoring fasteners.

Where stainless is available in the right strength grade I'd prefer to use them. There are loads of people in sheds making and selling stainless parts for old motorcycles, not sure about the Land Rover fraternity.

[Dave the bass]

Also been electrocleaning my nuts prior to plating them (queue DtB)...

[jack]

I'll do a bit about the electrocleaning & plating etc. In the landrover thread.

I'm replacing most fixings with new either yellow passivated zinc on steel or A2 SS.

The LR is a mix of UNF and metric. I have complete kits of both for the Defender 90 in SS.

[steve s]

I luuuve stainless Steel, and as a yorkshireman it cuts out the now expensive chromer.
Make it, pollyshit, job done !

In the 90s a did quite a bit of nickel plating using a fish tank and a battery charger

[IslandPink]

One can only hope that the fish were not in the tank by then !

[Mike H]

Sunday rideout to JJ's Cafe Hagworthingham on the Cadwell - 30 mins

I'm also trying out an in-helmet microphone ...
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[ed]

JJs do the very best(not probably) breakfast in the world...
used to go regularly when I lived in Burgh, now visit infrequently when visiting friends...not since lockdown though....

edit:

sorry, bit of a gaff......the very best breakfast is in Rachel cafe, about half a mile down the road from JJ towards Partney.....

[Mike H]

That is as maybe, but they're not open yet!

I do like Rachel's as well, used to get a lunch there.

I'll have to try a breakfast at both, things may be different.

[Mike H]

Anybody interested in Lincolnshire Wolds, I did do a ride round after egg and chips at JJ's.

A ride around the Lincolnshire Wolds on the AJS Cadwell, and passing Cadwell Park race circuit on the way back.
60 minutes but skip the boring bits as desired ...

[IslandPink]

I think a virtual ride around the L.Wolds would be very nice after dinner this evening.

[Baggy Trousers]

Where stainless is available in the right strength grade I'd prefer to use them.

So do I. And when it comes to old bikes, I find bead blasting of stainless components makes them look surprisingly like nickel bits.

At the beginning of March, I ordered a handful of M8 X 1,0 stainless nuts. Order acknowledged and money taken. Nothing more for three weeks. "Oi! Where's my stuff?" is met with an apology as the goods are stuck somewhere in the canal. This elicits the obvious enquiry to which the answer is "Yes, they are made in China." If I hadn't been desperate for these things, I would have cancelled the order. For Christ's sake - can't we manufacture our own bloody nuts in this country any more? At one time, it was just about all that GKN did. I despair.

[pre65]

My first motorcycle was a Matchless G80s, 1958 from memory, with the AMC gearbox and Girling rear shocks. I purchased it from a fellow apprentice at Marconi and it cost me £10, which was more than a weeks wage at the time.

Being naïve at the time (still a teenager) I got a second-hand high compression piston and close ratio gears for it.

Anyway, what reminded me was that the old piston, a wire-wound aluminium one, was made into an ashtray, with a brass coloured base and a 13" rod connecting the base and piston.

I've still got it ! Now just as an ornament and memento of my youth.

[Baggy Trousers]

My first motorcycle was a Matchless G80s, 1958 from memory, with the AMC gearbox and Girling rear shocks. I purchased it from a fellow apprentice at Marconi and it cost me £10, which was more than a weeks wage at the time.

Being naïve at the time (still a teenager) I got a second-hand high compression piston and close ratio gears for it.

Anyway, what reminded me was that the old piston, a wire-wound aluminium one, was made into an ashtray, with a brass coloured base and a 13" rod connecting the base and piston.

I've still got it ! Now just as an ornament and memento of my youth.

Much more exciting than my glass ashtray insert in an old, perished and age-hardened Dunlop tyre. Gave up the snarts 20 years ago but couldn't bear to part with the heirloom smokers' companion.

[Nick]

When my father worled as a machinest for Perkin's Doesel Engines. We had several heron head pistons converted into ashtrays. Looked very stylish with the grooves for the rings.