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[keithmac]

I got paid eventually, but I would not trust him as far as I coulf throw him! He is a very clever guy, but is trailed by failed projects. He blames everyone else, but there is one common denominator in it all!



I did some work for a friend of mine on an RZ500 track bike he was building. He was converting the cylinders to use RGV250 barrels as they had better porting and sorted the problem of one of the cylinders overheating. The cases needed machining, and some plates machined to put it all together. The bike is still being built 10 years later, but it is a very special bike.

Sounds like a very in depth project there. Not had a lot to do with the RD/RZ500's but this one is for road not track and the engine appears in good order.

Looks an interesting design.

 

[Pumpkin the robot]

A proper v4 2 stroke, unlike the square four rg500 that everyone likes to use for their 500 2 stroke reps. It reminds me I need to drag my 2 strokes out and get them built and ridden, instead of walking past them each time I go into the garage!

 

[PeteXXX]

Waiting...... For quite a while!

 

[PeteXXX]

Still waiting.....

 

[Hicky]

Servicing diffusion pumps, clearly the one on the right isn’t in good shape. The manufacturer doesn’t offer repair so tomorrow I’ll be trying to spot weld if I can’t find a firm in Mcr with more experience than me to do it.

 

[Zipp2001]

Putting together some sales samples.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Demonstrating using wooden nails instead of hand-driven metal dowels in gate manufacture.

 

[Zipp2001]

 

[Zipp2001]

In the final design stages of a rough sculpt for a stocking holder for one of our customers. Hoping to get them to sign off and get it over the Master Sculptor and into product real soon.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RzunydemvE

 

[slowmotion]

I finally managed to edit out the daft blank areas of a PDF page

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Thank you PDFescape.com

 

[Biff600]

Inspection time yesterday, right to the top. Nice view too

 

[gbb]

From the relative excitement and interest of a start of a major overhaul of a bagging machine, I've posted pics of it before....new shafts, linear bearings, lots of grease removing and cleaning g, various re routing of cables...circa 5 hours work and maybe £700 in parts...work to continue soon with new transmission belts etc....
To this.....

Toilets blocked again....give it a good plunge....sorted
Theres no job I wont do....

 

[gbb]

Part 2 of a overhaul on a bagger, new vertical carriage drive belts, each 30mm wide, around 1.5 mtr long.

Around 90 minutes work, access to the back belt meant getting squeezed in the machine is neccessary, This one was a breeze to tension up, the older machines have a bottom sprocket assembly with both sprocket fixed which makes equal tension almost impossible due to any variation in belt lengths, this one has independent sprockets.

Replace any of the relays that are operating IRO 30k times a day...just to reduce the probability of later failures and downtime.
With yesterdays parts, cost around £1k in spares.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Working with students of Heriot Watt University as they develop an innovative, solar powered house to be showcased at World Expo 2020. Some very bright people.

 

[Biff600]

Today, I was mostly overseeing a hoist dismantle in London, I'll be back on Friday to close it out and another couple of site visits.