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    Rust removal from inside gas tank

    The magnet was a stroke of genius.
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    how to porting and polishing

    Thank you for the inputs on polishing. I have a TC rigid frame rear end to attach and I'm waiting on Kiwi input on my front forks. I bought a PM alternator and a big bore kit. I have a reproduction German sidecar frame and a jet drop tank for a body. It is winter and my shop is not heated. My...
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    how to porting and polishing

    The Garage pictures are gone but I get the picture.
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    how to porting and polishing

    I was wondering about the hefty price tag. I'm age 62. Things that will last 100 years are somewhat a mute question at my age. Never the less, "The very best is adequate and too much is not enough". What if I do live to be 162? Never mind.
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    how to porting and polishing

    Check out the Kiwi flat spring front forks. They are pricing out a set for me as I type. I am short and I lowered my bike two inches front and rear. They have the dimensions if you are interested. Bear in mind that these are not cheap. Back to porting. How polished is polished? I suppose that I...
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    how to porting and polishing

    I will spare no effort. I remember damaging one head in my first screwed up efforts. I accidentally ground on the valve guides. Did this destroy them? Perhaps not but I am a firearms engraver and small details are important. Should the valve guides be left in place to protect the hole? Should...
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    how to porting and polishing

    What I am building will be a 1930's Indian Scout type bike but with my beloved XS650 engine. It will have a side car with a jet drop tank sidecar body. Yup, I drove from Illinois to Pa. to pick up two NOS 1952 drop tanks. This will not be a racer yet I want my this to be the very best. I am...
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    how to porting and polishing

    I have the mechanical skills. I have been machining for forty years. This bike will see my every effort. I request direction on what to do and what NOT to do. Years ago, I polished the H*** out of a set of heads and I do believe that I scraped them out. That is what happens when you work in the...
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    how to porting and polishing

    I would like to see a thread about porting and polishing with lots of pictures for this old fart (my first bike was purchased in 1965). About ten years ago, I discovered the XS650 and I bought a bunch of everything including ten extra engines. I am only now getting around to building the bike of...
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    Rust removal from inside gas tank

    My wife broke her hip so I'm down and out for the moment. I will quiz our chemists to get the latest solutions to corrosion problems. In aerospace, corrosion is a serious concern. Do you want to fly on a corroding airplane? The chelating solution dissolves iron oxide and it is does harm plain...
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    Valve Adjustment- Video

    What you have done is top quality, best quality presentations. You have excellent teaching skills. Your presentations are simple, straight forward and they cover all the critical do's and don't's. Well done indeed. All the Best Tom
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    Rust removal from inside gas tank

    I am suspicious about a product that cleans aluminum and removes rust from the inside of gas tanks. I will talk to our plating chemist about this. We have used a chelating solution that dissolves rust without acids. It harms little to nothing. It is a wonderful product. I will get more details...
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    Rust removal from inside gas tank

    The electrolytic rust removal is a top drawer method. You can take an awful rusted mess and take it back to just steel. I have used this method on antiques and such mundane things like chain guards. Now when is the last time you saw a chain guard with no rust? The phosphate mixture is 5% acid to...
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    Rust removal from inside gas tank

    I work in an aerospace materials laboratory (37 years). Once a tank is truly clean, a phosphate conversion is a wonderful thing. Now what does that mean? Phosphoric acid reacts with the iron creating an iron phosphate coating. This coating is a great protectorate against future rust. So how do...
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    TC Bros Hard tail and Fork lowering

    I changed no wheels. Shorter shocks and lowering the the forks is all that I did. It worked! The bike is lower for short people like me. As for welcome home, thank you. Only my family welcomed me home from the war. All the Best, Tom
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    TC Bros Hard tail and Fork lowering

    I'm short. The stock XS won't let me but touch the ground but with my toes. I bought rear shocks which were two inches shorter. I then slide the fork tubes up until they hit the handle bars. I then had to bend my side stand and shorten my center stand. All is well now. being short, the center...
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