'68 BSA Victor Build..... Bloody 'ell mate... You 'effin daft or sommat?!?

Jim said:
Half a roller? :rolleyes:

3K on the clock my ass.... the guts of these forks were full of scars from ham fisted mechanics. No matter, all of it cleaned up.
New seals, new bushes and all back together. A minor glitch... a brain glitch. I can't for the life of me find the drain screws. I set 'em on the bench when I took everything down for scrubbing... and now they're MIA. I really wanted to put some oil in these to leak check 'em before installation. Oh well... On order now.

Need to clean up the brake plate and I'll be halfway to a roller.

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Jim said:
Half a roller? :rolleyes:

3K on the clock my ass.... the guts of these forks were full of scars from ham fisted mechanics. No matter, all of it cleaned up.
New seals, new bushes and all back together. A minor glitch... a brain glitch. I can't for the life of me find the drain screws. I set 'em on the bench when I took everything down for scrubbing... and now they're MIA. I really wanted to put some oil in these to leak check 'em before installation. Oh well... On order now.

Need to clean up the brake plate and I'll be halfway to a roller.

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Ham Fisted? I swear I've NEVER worked on a BSA!
 
Backordered bits are slowly dribblin' in. Clutch basket... chainwheel in BSA parlance, showed up today. There's a rubber cush setup that has to be transferred to the new one. There's 4 philips head screws holding it, all 4 of which have severely buggered heads. Managed to remove one with a screwdriver, the other 3 took a drill and easy out.... sorry Togl... :whistle:
They're Whitworth screws and still on backorder unfortunately. I'd read earlier on a BSA forum that they're identical to a metric M5 X .8. Went to Ace and picked up 4 allen heads. Sumbich, they are the same.

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The cush drive rides on 25 little roller bearings. Talk about a fiddly little bugger.

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Soaked the new clutch plates and put it all back together.

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The adjustment screw is all buggered, new one is backorder. I'm gonna hold off on installing the cover until it arrives.
 
Interesting about some Brit fasteners. Working on my Raleigh bicycle I needed a couple of axle nuts. Turns out they were a 3/8” x 26 TPI thread. Where are you going to find those (other than a bike shop)? My buddy tells me they are as close as can be to an M10 x 1.00. Another fun fact to file in my useless information file. Now back to Jim’s BSA channel…..
 
Jim said:
Backordered bits are slowly dribblin' in. Clutch basket... chainwheel in BSA parlance, showed up today. There's a rubber cush setup that has to be transferred to the new one. There's 4 philips head screws holding it, all 4 of which have severely buggered heads. Managed to remove one with a screwdriver, the other 3 took a drill and easy out.... sorry Togl... :whistle:
They're Whitworth screws and still on backorder unfortunately. I'd read earlier on a BSA forum that they're identical to a metric M5 X .8. Went to Ace and picked up 4 allen heads. Sumbich, they are the same.

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The cush drive rides on 25 little roller bearings. Talk about a fiddly little bugger.

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Soaked the new clutch plates and put it all back together.

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The adjustment screw is all buggered, new one is backorder. I'm gonna hold off on installing the cover until it arrives.
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You and I both know you cheated on that single strand.... :wink2:
 
Threads are difficult to get correct .Pipe Threads was rocket science
Withworth have 55 degrees profile and metric 60 degrees
if i get it right.
Cant say if it matters .. depends on stress on it I suppose

This being rotating expensive parts perhaps jolts and bumps
perhaps have it in mind for the future
 
Jan_P said:
Threads are difficult to get correct .Pipe Threads was rocket science
Withworth have 55 degrees profile and metric 60 degrees
if i get it right.
Cant say if it matters .. depends on stress on it I suppose

This being rotating expensive parts perhaps jolts and bumps
perhaps have it in mind for the future
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It's a cover plate for the rubber bushes. Bubble gum would have done the job.
Very little stress in other words.
 
It's DuPont Centari. You can catalyze it or shoot it straight. works both ways. I go over it with a urethane clear (2 part) for durability.
Only reason I use it is 'cause back when I was painting for a living, we shot a LOT of Centari.
Nice to stick with something you're used to using... it's more predictable.
 
Jim said:
It's DuPont Centari. You can catalyze it or shoot it straight. works both ways. I go over it with a urethane clear (2 part) for durability.
Only reason I use it is 'cause back when I was painting for a living, we shot a LOT of Centari.
Nice to stick with something you're used to using... it's more predictable.
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I have an ancient quart can a black Centari in my paint inventory...didn't know it could be shot without catalyst. I believe its left over from a Ducati 860 I shot probably 40 years ago!

The Ducati 860 shoot is a story in itself. My buddy who was very into Ducati meets a girl, Jane, in a bar. Turns out Jane rode into Montreal on her 860 which then had some sort of major engine failure while here. Buddy and his circle of Ducati wrenches repair the bike and the bike turns up at my shop with a request for fresh paint. I shot the black Centari with a pair of silver racing stripes over the top of the tank. She leaves town, breaks Buddy's heart and I get a photo in the mail of the bike on the salt at Bonneville on the way back to California ... and that's the last either of us heard from Jane! One of those extended ships passing in the night things...
 
atom4488 said:
I have an ancient quart can a black Centari in my paint inventory...didn't know it could be shot without catalyst. I believe its left over from a Ducati 860 I shot probably 40 years ago!

The Ducati 860 shoot is a story in itself. My buddy who was very into Ducati meets a girl, Jane, in a bar. Turns out Jane rode into Montreal on her 860 which then had some sort of major engine failure while here. Buddy and his circle of Ducati wrenches repair the bike and the bike turns up at my shop with a request for fresh paint. I shot the black Centari with a pair of silver racing stripes over the top of the tank. She leaves town, breaks Buddy's heart and I get a photo in the mail of the bike on the salt at Bonneville on the way back to California ... and that's the last either of us heard from Jane! One of those extended ships passing in the night things...
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Cue Tom Petty "That girl was a rideaway Jane......"
 
atom4488 said:
didn't know it could be shot without catalyst.
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Centari originally was a 1 part paint, no catalyst supplied. Thin it and shoot it. Some years later (mid 70's iirc) they started selling an "additive" they said was a catalyst. Strictly optional they said, but highly recommended. Later, when Axalta bought out DuPont's paint line, they originally had it in fine print that the catalyst wasn't strictly required.
I know all this 'cause about 4yrs ago I used up my stash of the DuPont flavor and ordered the Axalta Centari. Since I didn't read on the web page it was now required, I just assumed it was still the same ol' marketing gimmick and didn't order it. The website also talked up the fact that "this is the same DuPont Centari as before."
When the can showed up, the directions had a mixing ratio for catalyst and no mention of "optional". Centari has it's own smell... very distinct, especially if you'd shot it for years like I had. New and old smelled identical. I shot some test pieces, thinned but no hardener, old and new. They dried and behaved exactly the same.

4 yrs later and my "new" can is almost empty... need to order more... and no, I won't be ordering the catalyst.
 
Jim said:
Centari originally was a 1 part paint, no catalyst supplied. Thin it and shoot it. Some years later (mid 70's iirc) they started selling an "additive" they said was a catalyst. Strictly optional they said, but highly recommended. Later, when Axalta bought out DuPont's paint line, they originally had it in fine print that the catalyst wasn't strictly required.
I know all this 'cause about 4yrs ago I used up my stash of the DuPont flavor and ordered the Axalta Centari. Since I didn't read on the web page it was now required, I just assumed it was still the same ol' marketing gimmick and didn't order it. The website also talked up the fact that "this is the same DuPont Centari as before."
When the can showed up, the directions had a mixing ratio for catalyst and no mention of "optional". Centari has it's own smell... very distinct, especially if you'd shot it for years like I had. New and old smelled identical. I shot some test pieces, thinned but no hardener, old and new. They dried and behaved exactly the same.

4 yrs later and my "new" can is almost empty... need to order more... and no, I won't be ordering the catalyst.
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Can I venture a guess that the catalyst is as pricey as the paint?
(my other response was "sniffing paint?..... 😎 .)
 
The spokes on the rear wheel are straight. There's no 90° bend where they feed through the hub, they go straight out the holes. That makes it unbelievably easy to lace up. From unboxing the spokes to mounting the wheel in the balancing/runout stand was 15 min. I kid you not... easiest wheel I've ever built up. The down side is the spokes spin freely when you try and tighten the nipples. Need to make sumpin' to hold the spokes while I tighten 'em... without scratching the crap out of 'em. :umm:

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Jim said:
The down side is the spokes spin freely when you try and tighten the nipples.
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Well isn’t that weird that there was nothing to lock them in place. Wonder how the factory did it?
Maybe a pair of vice grips clamped around a double layer of scrap inner tube, clamped around a spoke while you tighten? :shrug:
 
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