Tag: New Skills

Buffed Ally Covers etc.

Just a short one today, as nothing else seems to be moving at the moment, I decided to play in the workshop again, as the weather was so fine (27°!) I thought that I’d work on making a few things ‘pretty’…so a clean up of a few parts was on the cards. Not wishing to…


Trial Assembly of -10 Gearbox

Last week I was again at the powder-coater, Marshalls, and asked about a bead blaster…he recommended one not one hundred yards from him, and so I trotted off to take my gearbox-casing, now a hollow shell. He was very friendly and quite interested and seems to do lots of bike bits for people, so I…


1:9 Scale Velocette Model

To blog, or not to blog… I really must apologise for the break, I am, however very tied up with family business which has to take priority at the moment. There have been hours when I have been in the workshop comparing gearbox-parts and working out what I’m going to need to get one of…


More Gearbox

More questions and comparisons As I noted yesterday, there are some strange things going on in these two gearboxes… I’ll start with the main-shaft again and the differences in the sleeve-gear and the shafts themselves: The picture above is of the ends of the sleeves at the clutch end, without the shaft in situ, and…


Box #2

Prewar gearbox Well, this one looks like it might be slightly more complete and slightly more ‘oil’-tight. The kick-tarter is in the usual horrendous state! I don’t know why it is, but Velocette kickstart-levers are nearly always rusted-to-…well…buggery! First thing, then, is to get the lever off! First, I have to ‘depress’ the lever about…