Jim's Speed Twin Build

Yeah... just noticed that too. Must be off the XS1 motor. Still have distant dreams of building that motor so.... I'll prolly pick out another for the speed twin.
 

Might want to double check the mounting bolt pattern on the engine side case to the motor............early side cases bolt pattern is different
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Covers are looking good!

I spent 4 years as a Navy electrician, and 12 years as Union electrician.

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I realize that you are just in the mock-up stage, but when you do final installation, if you are still using slotted screws to mount your clutch-side case cover logo plate, you want to align your screwdriver slots. Electricians usually orient switchplate screw slots vertically. This is not OCD bull. It is a sign of a craftsman who knows what he is doing.

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Both images pulled off of the inter-web. Horizontally oriented slots like these are less common, but at least all the slots are oriented the same.

In your case, you have to consider proper screw torque, which is not an issue with switchplates. You may need to fab a thin gasket spacer to go behind the screws to get the proper screwdriver slot alignment along with the correct torque.
 
Covers are looking good!

I spent 4 years as a Navy electrician, and 12 years as Union electrician.

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I realize that you are just in the mock-up stage, but when you do final installation, if you are still using slotted screws to mount your clutch-side case cover logo plate, you want to align your screwdriver slots. Electricians usually orient switchplate screw slots vertically. This is not OCD bull. It is a sign of a craftsman who knows what he is doing.

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Both images pulled off of the inter-web. Horizontally oriented slots like these are less common, but at least all the slots are oriented the same.

In your case, you have to consider proper screw torque, which is not an issue with switchplates. You may need to fab a thin gasket spacer to go behind the screws to get the proper screwdriver slot alignment along with the correct torque.
Maybe Jim could find Torx screws!
 
He's right, Jim.
All fasteners aligned with the airflow... :D
Well, as I previously said a page or so back, those are temporary. The permanent ones are cut down and do indeed align with the direction of flight. :smoke:
They're just sitting here on the bench, waiting for me to get off my ass and nickel plate 'em.:rolleyes:
 
Covers are looking good!
I spent 4 years as a Navy electrician, and 12 years as Union electrician.
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I realize that you are just in the mock-up stage, but when you do final installation, if you are still using slotted screws to mount your clutch-side case cover logo plate, you want to align your screwdriver slots. Electricians usually orient switchplate screw slots vertically. This is not OCD bull. It is a sign of a craftsman who knows what he is doing.
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Both images pulled off of the inter-web. Horizontally oriented slots like these are less common, but at least all the slots are oriented the same.
In your case, you have to consider proper screw torque, which is not an issue with switchplates. You may need to fab a thin gasket spacer to go behind the screws to get the proper screwdriver slot alignment along with the correct torque.

Hi 'Bunny.
I've been r and r ing switch cover plates for over 60 years and have never given a flying f*ck which way the screw slots pointed.
Despite the screws' random slot alignment none of the plates ever fell off again and none of the power ever leaked out.
Perhaps your skilled craftsman is my Obsessive Compulsion Disorder victim?
 
Guilty of the screw slot alignment thing. I'm also a straight wire paths and radius bends in the service panel kind of guy. But I hope no one shows up to the house and does an inspection...

Hi Gary,
the building inspector's mantra:- "It shall not pass!"
Had my town-gas leak alarm go off a while back so SOP called the Fire Brigade.
Their sniffer found the new but leaking acetylene tank in my attached garage, wheeled it outside, problem over?
You'd think so but no. The City's inspector showed up. Went all over my house to find all manner of things that weren't
to the current fire code. Had to get quite loud with the guy before he'd admit that every last one of his "code violations"
were Grandfathered in by my home's age. The Fire Chief told me, "That guy is a bit of an asshole."
 
Guilty of the screw slot alignment thing. I'm also a straight wire paths and radius bends in the service panel kind of guy. But I hope no one shows up to the house and does an inspection...
Absolutely. In the long run, it doesn't take any longer to make up a neat panel than it does to leave a rat's nest. Side note -- rat -- that is what Union craftsmen call non-union workers. Maybe I shouldn't have said that...
Hi Gary,
the building inspector's mantra:- "It shall not pass!"
Had my town-gas leak alarm go off a while back so SOP called the Fire Brigade.
Their sniffer found the new but leaking acetylene tank in my attached garage, wheeled it outside, problem over?
You'd think so but no. The City's inspector showed up. Went all over my house to find all manner of things that weren't
to the current fire code. Had to get quite loud with the guy before he'd admit that every last one of his "code violations"
were Grandfathered in by my home's age. The Fire Chief told me, "That guy is a bit of an asshole."
Good story.
But if you ever worked as an electrician, you would have been told about slot alignment on your first day doing trim-out. Unaligned screws actually find their way on to contractor's punch lists. The client won't sign off until they're fixed. I'm not kidding.

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On a related note, your basic on/off wall switch says "ON" when it is in the on position. If you install it upside-down, it says NO! That should be a clue. I was once doing trim-out in a hospital. Followed another electrician reversing all of his upside-down wall switches. He was a pretty ratty union electrician...
 
I'm guilty of the alignment thing too, but I don't do it just for looks. I find it's an easy way to tell if fasteners have started coming loose with just a glance. On my hex head bolts, I try to install them with a point of the hex pointing up .....

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I'm guilty of the alignment thing too, but I don't do it just for looks. I find it's an easy way to tell if fasteners have started coming loose with just a glance. On my hex head bolts, I try to install them with a point of the hex pointing up .....

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Get some of this for your piece of mind. Plus, your friends will ask why your bolts all have an orange stripe on them. Maybe I'll get some for myself! This one is $7 at Grainger.
 
Haven't decided yet Tom. I do like that one though. :geek:
Hi Jim,
alas no photo but a friend's XS650 hauls a Dneipr (same as a Ural but the trunk don't open) sidecar quite handily.
My own XS650 hauls a Spirit of America sidecar OK with a 36T rear sprocket
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And used to haul a Velorex even better but the missus couldn't snuggle deep enough in it to stay out of the slipstream.

Note 1) I recommend setting up the sidecar brake on a separate pedal to help turn a tight rightie.
Note 2) Do it BEFORE the chair lifts, eh?
 
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This is not OCD bull. It is a sign of a craftsman who knows what he is doing.

View attachment 183392
Both images pulled off of the inter-web. Horizontally oriented slots like these are less common, but at least all the slots are oriented the same.

In your case, you have to consider proper screw torque, which is not an issue with switchplates. You may need to fab a thin gasket spacer to go behind the screws to get the proper screwdriver slot alignment along with the correct torque.

I've always regarded that as nonsense. The screw gets tightened to its proper value and where the slot ends up is in the lap of the gods.
Early on, in my career, I had an equipment manager who'd insist on the screwheads on all the cabinets that were being made and going into the stores, must have all the screw heads aligned. These were cabinets that would be taken out by the engineers and installed, and not one of them would be put in place in the customers' premises with the screwheads aligned.
Utter total waste of time and energy, and who knows how many screws had been over-tightened because of his stupidity.
 
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