This arrived in the post today, albeit still in one piece.
One XS2 speedometer, not working.
Also full of rust flakes, trip knob weirdly damaged and little screw missing, but surprisingly still functional (the trip only)
Needle stuck at 20 mph, input shaft free but a horrible grinding sound when I turned it.
Well to cut a long story short, as you can see I've managed to dismantle it, but I broke the little detent spring on the trip shaft, and the "C" clip on the shaft.
Grinding sound was/is rust flakes sticking to the magnet and jamming between the magnet wheel and the sprung cup.
I've got most of them out with a magnetic tipped screwdriver, but not 100%.
The good news is that the watch spring thing isn't broken, both the top and bottom bearings seem to have life left in them.
So now all I have to do is get 100% of those rust flakes out (I didn't realise that rust was still attracted to magnets), I'm not sure exactly how.
Then I've got to de-rust, seal and repaint the metal casing.
Then fix up a new detent spring somehow, find another C clip, and put it all back together.
Oh yeah, the paint is nearly all missing off the dial, so it's gonna need one of them vinyl overlays (which means I'll have to do the tacho too, or it will look real stupid)
Finally, all the red numbers have bleached out on the 1/10 mile reel.
I really don't know how to fix that.
Maybe I should give up motorcycles and collect coins or stamps ?
I the meantime, if anyone knows a way to get the last bits of rust flakes away from the rotating magnet, please let me know.
One XS2 speedometer, not working.
Also full of rust flakes, trip knob weirdly damaged and little screw missing, but surprisingly still functional (the trip only)
Needle stuck at 20 mph, input shaft free but a horrible grinding sound when I turned it.
Well to cut a long story short, as you can see I've managed to dismantle it, but I broke the little detent spring on the trip shaft, and the "C" clip on the shaft.
Grinding sound was/is rust flakes sticking to the magnet and jamming between the magnet wheel and the sprung cup.
I've got most of them out with a magnetic tipped screwdriver, but not 100%.
The good news is that the watch spring thing isn't broken, both the top and bottom bearings seem to have life left in them.
So now all I have to do is get 100% of those rust flakes out (I didn't realise that rust was still attracted to magnets), I'm not sure exactly how.
Then I've got to de-rust, seal and repaint the metal casing.
Then fix up a new detent spring somehow, find another C clip, and put it all back together.
Oh yeah, the paint is nearly all missing off the dial, so it's gonna need one of them vinyl overlays (which means I'll have to do the tacho too, or it will look real stupid)
Finally, all the red numbers have bleached out on the 1/10 mile reel.
I really don't know how to fix that.
Maybe I should give up motorcycles and collect coins or stamps ?
I the meantime, if anyone knows a way to get the last bits of rust flakes away from the rotating magnet, please let me know.