Sometimes you do things and think, was I really that stupid?
Ok if you are retired, but not so when it eats into production time.
These two swallowed around 30 hours :white_frowning_face:

Shouldn't take much longer to finish and attach to the chainstay.









Mark

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That's why it's so difficult to make money from motorcycle restorations...
It can be very 'time heavy' and the hours just can't be viably charged for within the price of a restoration that someone other than Bill Gates can afford to pay for....
I stuck to engines, tuning work, gearboxes and some manufacturing of parts (where viable) as generally the range of problems likely to be found are far more predictable and can be costed more easily...
I've just spent over a month converting a BSA brakeplate to twin leading shoe which involved manufacturing most of the parts, and fitting it to a hub (and set of forks) it was never intended for...A very interesting project but not one I'd like to cost at a reasonable hourly rate!!.....Ian

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Fantastic job Mark! 👍

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Indeed a lot off work. Makes you wonder how they did this at the factory in the 1940's, building so many bikes

I'm sure they would have been cast. Hundreds at a time. Ron

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They were castings originally.....Marks replication methods are the response to a lack of availability of the original parts and practical expediency...Ian

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I'm sad to admit they didn't turn out as well as I hoped.
A lesson I fail to learn when working on my own stuff is to take more time.
Some of the sizes were not correct, I have a feeling I didn't save some changes in the CAD model.
It's a shame that the foundry I use no longer does sample batches.
I'd have to commit to a large run and if I'd taken that route it would have been an expensive mistake.
I guess it validates having a 3d printer :slightly_frowning_face:
The Cad model is now corrected, what little use it is now.

Mark

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