A long, long project.

Some nice shiny triple trees. Couldn't get underneath the top triple tree for polishing so that's just a bead blast finish. Top had some difficult sections, but I managed to get in there with nylon fibre wheel and narrows mops. The large chrome washers under the handlebar mounts were rusted, so I spun up some aluminium ones and polished them. Lower triple tree had a rough cast finish, so I sanded the areas I could get to with the belt sander and nylon fibre wheel before painting.. Finally, I bought some stainless fasteners, cut them to length and polished them. When I find a magnetic sensor speedo I'll mount that on a polished aluminium plate and use the stock mounts. Triple trees look good so far. Picked up the frame from the sand blasters this afternoon and bogged up the rough areas, I filed most of the weld joints prior to blasting so that saved a lot of bog. Hard to know when to stop bogging on these Japanese frames, talk about rough. Paint day tomorrow, sand the bog down and apply a few coats of primer before I hit it with a top coat, then float coat it. I also removed the pins from the footrests, bead blasted everything, rammed a 16mm square bar down through the hollow pegs to straighten them, belt sanded the main bodies smooth, removed the casting joins and hit them with gloss black. Instead of Inserting pins, I polished up a couple of allen heads and fixed them with polished stainless nyloc nuts. Rubber peg mounts were buggered, so I bought a couple of rubber bungs from Clarkes. When I've finished the frame I'll shape the rubber bungs and insert them in the pegs.

Hoo Wee! That’s some pretty work! I’m loving those triple trees. :geek: Do you live in Australia?
 
Terrific progress you’re making and your work is so clean and well ordered! Very nice! For lifting the motor , when I did my build, I bought an inexpensive chain hoist online, I braced up my rafters and hung it from an eye hook about 5 feet in front of my bench. The chain hoist easily lifts the motor, then I simply slid my work bench under it, set the motor down and slid the bench back into place against the wall.
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Terrific progress you’re making and your work is so clean and well ordered! Very nice! For lifting the motor , when I did my build, I bought an inexpensive chain hoist online, I braced up my rafters and hung it from an eye hook about 5 feet in front of my bench. The chain hoist easily lifts the motor, then I simply slid my work bench under it, set the motor down and slid the bench back into place against the wall.
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Terrific progress you’re making and your work is so clean and well ordered! Very nice! For lifting the motor , when I did my build, I bought an inexpensive chain hoist online, I braced up my rafters and hung it from an eye hook about 5 feet in front of my bench. The chain hoist easily lifts the motor, then I simply slid my work bench under it, set the motor down and slid the bench back into place against the wall.
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Nice tidy shop MM. wish my garage was that clean.
 
That is so fuc**ing dangerous...........sorry gotta say it............

when that goes down there will be 2 of you that cant help each other........
 
I'm sorry to have offended your sensibilities............

Done a lot of silly dangerous things........like to think i have learned from each one of my mistakes

Good luck
 
I like how you are mocking up the exhaust. I need to do something similar to my car. Wonder if I can use the same process? I’m enjoying watching your build. Thx for sharing.
 
That’s pretty heavy for one person in a confined space. You’ve got the calculation right at today’s exchange rates. But how many stone is it for our UK audience?

Hi bosco.
1 Stone = 14 lbs so a 160 lb engine will weigh ~11.4 stone. but as the UK went Metric 160lbs equals ~73 KG over 'ome these days.
But in terms of "can I pick the bastard up?" it's block & tackle time for those of us who are old enough to remember those pre-metric days eh?
 
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