Tag: 8″ Headlamp

New 8″ Headlamp Brackets

Yes, that’s right! Just a quicky! Well, today was a good day… I picked up the initial batch of Headlamp-Brackets (or stays as some will still insist on calling them!) for the WEBB forks and Miller 8″ headlamp, so good for Velocette, Norton, Triumph and other manufacturers also on their pre-war Girders. NOT, I might…


8-inch Miller Headlamp

How good are the copies? Well, I have the undoubted pleasure of owning an original Miller lamp shell, with an original ammeter and switch, (the ammeter pictured above is a cheap pattern which doesn’t fit…) although the switch is a later, three-position job, as available now ‘everywhere’ in pattern form; where from I don’t know…probably…


A Quick 50W Update

ZAP! This is main beam of the 50W setup, through the fluted, flat lens And this the dipped beam. Out on the street, this looked quite different: Main: …and dipped-beam, again: Projected through these eyes. The problem over the last few days is, that it has been wet, and so the light reacts very differently…


Let There Be Light!

And By GOLLY, there WAS! My goodness, how time flies! Has it really been six weeks since I did a blog! Unforgivable! Lots has been going on, I must admit, so I sort of forgive myself, even if you don’t! One of my preoccupations has been with lighting. I managed to find someone willing to…


8″ Miller HID-Conversion

Ever wondered what the world looked like at night beyond the yellow glare of the street-lamps? Now’s the time to find out and even for the let’s-keep-everything-original (well, original looking, anyway) buffs, here is a low-profile change that could save your life or someone that you love (no-one else gets to ride the bike, rest…


Paint Preparation

Today has seen much go on in the workshop. but not much that I can actually document, well… not pictorially, anyway! AS time goes on, I suppose I could try out my video-skills and show how I was doing something AS I am doing it…will have to give that a go! I started off doing…