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Damn, no fooling you guys. Congrats, you win absolutely nothing.

Guess what this is. Spent an hour or so this afternoon spinning this up. I nearly stuffed it up: After drilling the 3mm hole I backed...

That is nice, not of much use except for maybe making very small parts, but it is nice. It'd be an excellent restoration project.

You can mill, steel, titanium or any other metal with pretty well any mill, regardless of size. The ability to machine these metals...

XS650s came with both 38 and 34mm CV carbs as standard. Parts outlets sell kits consisting of 34mm carbs, either flat or round slides...

'Moon key'? Never heard it called that before, but shouldn't that be 'half moon key'. Personally, I call them them 'Woodruff keys'...

How do you restore, perfect tools?

Scroll through the posts in The Garage and The Lounge. They're pretty obvious.

I'm a yachty too, this is my yacht with crew.

Yes, I see on the left side of your post you are 93. Either that or 397...

Well it's far from stock: no electric starter, no battery, PMA conversion and probably electronic ignition.

I have a complete tool set, everything I need, no matter the job. I bought them all when I started working on stuff. The last pic is...

I take the same size socks as I did in 1968! Other stuff - not so much...

I read somewhere the Chinese Mikuni knockoffs have different threads on the jets to Mikuni. True/false?

He's a sandgroper, probably didn't look at the post date. Oops, I'm a sandgroper too, I never look at the date!

What are wideband sensors?

It appears there are a couple of scammers on this group.

It appears there are a couple of scammers on this group.

I wish you people wouldn't wouldn't refer to the XS 650 as stone age, by the time Yamaha made my 74 TX650 I was already considered an...

Well before you look into it and try to figure out what's wrong you probably need to know the picture you posted is not the points or...

It's not about comprehension (yes I did manage to understand that bit) it's a lack of being able to write intelligibly. Couldn't manage...

Being as the PO removed, or disabled, the electric start amd replaced the battery with a capacitor, the next obvious simplification...

Remove the points cover and take a pic. Kickstart means the starter motor has been removed. Capacitor means the battery has been...

Sorry, but your written locution is simply to hard to understand. Maybe a local dialect, but I don't understand most of it. Still a...

Yes, but what's behind the points cover? Points or electronic pickup?

VMs for the XS usually come in a kit form: Carbs, cables, manifolds, rubbers and spare mains. So this being the case the jetting would...

If it ain't broke?

I just bought a cheap Chinese digital: speedo, tacho, idiot lights etc. It came with a sensor. Just a matter of making bracketry for...

You mean it has no advance unit. I'm guessing it has electronic ignition, correct? If so, most electronic ignitions handle the...

Absolutely, I've been called a cheap bastard many, many times, don't own a CO2 monitor, don't even own a roll of cotton wool to wrap...

Funny you should say that, back in 1968 I bought a 1963 BSA A65, the seat was torn, so I asked the local upholsterer to recover the...

Cars are also designed not to introduce exhaust gasses into the car's cab. But that's just what the sales engineers tell us, so I'm...

The heater wil apparently work on a variety of fuels: Diesel, kero, old engine oil, canola, and probably fish and chip oil, same as...

I can remember in the mid 60s to the very early 70s, drooling over the new Bonevilles and BSA Spitfires ( the ones with the GP2 carbs)...

Now, nothing from Japan can compete with this kind of beauty! Not even when it's wearing a breadbox tank...

I’ve just set up my new workshop heater. Previously I was using a kero heater, but apparently it was smelly, not that I could tell...

I'm not in the habit of filling milk jugs with petrol and timing it, but whatever floats your boat I suppose!

No idea how big an orifice you would need, but I just finished spinning up two barbs for the petcocks, the orifice is 4mm, same as the...

And here they are, fitted with new push fit spigots. First two pics are the 90 degree screw in barbs that kept coming loose.

I bought a couple of 90 degree fuel outlet barbss for the petcocks a while back, I thought it might make it easier to connect the fuel...

I have a 74, but swapped the carbs for VMs some time ago, so can't remember the jetting. There is a plethora of posts in this forum on...

I made a couple of small sensor brackets out of 2mm ally today, fitted one at the front under an ally U chanel. The other bracket and...

I did I say unusual, downright strange. https://old.xs650.org.au/offbeat.html

This is an interesting build by the XS650.club in OZ. Some very interesting work being done on this bike...

looks like the brother to my POS, also bought in Adelaide, although I think it came from Melbourne. Mine had a stuffed crankcase...

Here's the model history: https://xs650.org.au/model-history/ Funny thing about XS650 parts being hard to find in Australia. I just...

If it's not running right, change the jetting. You do that by READING THE PLUGS!

I bought this DRO on aliexpress with the intention of fitting it to my lathe. Changed my mind and I'm now fitting it to my mill. I...

If it shifts alright with the engine running, but won't shift with the engine off, that's not unusual. There must be a few hundred...

I have a special tool for reading the spark plug colour - eyes.