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Re: 1930 LF
Nicely set up.
Watching with interest.
Watching with interest.
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Reducing the boss and thinning the teeth (they were a little too wide as supplied) was simple enough, however cutting the taper to suit the dynamo shaft took a little more trouble. Cutting an internal taper in it’s self is easy enough by settling over the lathe’s top slide, but getting it wrong is just as easy. Too shallow an angle might be corrected, but too much and you end up throwing the work away and starting again. The taper is I am informed 1:10 or about 6°. Relying on reading the marks on the top-slide is not that good enough, so I made several test pieces on bit of scrap metal beforehand.
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The tool has to be exactly at centre height as well as the correct angle. Nev
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In order get the taper correct I looked on line for 1:10 taper reamer, found one, ordered it. It proved to be not very expensive, only there proved to be a reason for that, despite being marked 1:10, it wasn't. More searching found another, rather more expensive but that least it was the correct taper.
Needed to be heald in a chuck as a morse taper type was not available.
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Would not run, no spark, found that the points had closed up. Adjust the points find that the timing had slipped a little. Re-time the ignition, find muck in the fuel, clean out the lines. Took it to Cassington and someone else got it going, seems I wasn't kicking it hard enough (I am waiting on a right knee replacement). Still things to do, but getting there.
Tried adding a video but it took way too long to download so here is is a link instead :-
https://youtu.be/b9fbIzAkYyI
Tried adding a video but it took way too long to download so here is is a link instead :-
https://youtu.be/b9fbIzAkYyI
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After last Saturdays experiences I decided to give the fuel system a little more attention. Namely, drain out all the fuel - it was a bit on the "brown" side . Removed the carburettor float chamber, took out the float itself and lapped the float needle onto it's seat with some fine grinding paste. There was quite a bit of muck underneath the float, so took the opportunity to clean all of that out. Next thing is to refill with fresh fuel and try again.
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Time for a short road test, short because (a) if it stops along the way I don’t want to have too far to push it home, and (b) I had little confidence in the brakes. Sadly that’s how things turned out. So how did it all go?
Ready to set off and it started first kick, but the carburettor started to flood, it was eventually discovered the “tickler” button was sticking and holding the float down. With that attended to, try again, only it wouldn’t restart. After some more effort it did start so off we went and it went quite nicely, fairly brisk and rode well. Well that is until trying to select top gear whereupon it stalled and would not restart. As to the brakes, just pushing the machine and loading in and out of my van had shown them to be rather poor and the road test confirmed that, they were in fact more or less useless. I had a look at the brake shoes back when I fitted the new tyres and they appeared to be new items, that of course doesn’t mean that they are the correct ones or have the correct linings. “Back to the drawing board” as they say.
Ready to set off and it started first kick, but the carburettor started to flood, it was eventually discovered the “tickler” button was sticking and holding the float down. With that attended to, try again, only it wouldn’t restart. After some more effort it did start so off we went and it went quite nicely, fairly brisk and rode well. Well that is until trying to select top gear whereupon it stalled and would not restart. As to the brakes, just pushing the machine and loading in and out of my van had shown them to be rather poor and the road test confirmed that, they were in fact more or less useless. I had a look at the brake shoes back when I fitted the new tyres and they appeared to be new items, that of course doesn’t mean that they are the correct ones or have the correct linings. “Back to the drawing board” as they say.
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The brake shoe lining certainly looked to have plenty of “meat” on them, but they none the less did very little in the way of stopping. They also had a “glazed” look about them, maybe roughening them up with sand paper or similar might do the trick but I think new linings is the way to go
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