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16-01-2019, 04:13 PM | #16 |
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Competition Fabrications are excellent, they made up my silencers from my cardboard templates. They always seem to have something really interesting in the workshop too, last time I was there it one of Fangio's Maserarti's. However I no longer live at Attleborough, I just don't know how to alter the signature bit? If anyone can tell me that would be great.
Anyway back to the swinging arm issue, my plan is to ease the holes in the arm out to 11mm, and the same with the bottom of the shock, and then make up an oversized pin. Any comments gratefully received, Bitza.
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16-01-2019, 05:44 PM | #17 |
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That wouldn't be Nick Paravani by any chance would it?
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16-01-2019, 06:19 PM | #18 |
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16-01-2019, 07:05 PM | #19 | |
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Utopia was telling me only this weekend, that it is sometimes better to just turn the chuck by hand to enlarge holes in ally. No need for an oversized pin. Just make bushes to go in the arm on a standard bolt. ..Thinking out loud, it might be possible to shrink in interference fit bushes, using aerosols from a pipe freezing kit?? Perhaps warm the arm a bit too? Nick is a very talented chap. He did a couple of pipe bending commissions for me in the 80's... Absolutely fabulous work! Possibly only approached by Clive Scarfe, serial BSA and Triumph triple owner. He now supplies exclusive exhausts for Norman Hyde.
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16-01-2019, 09:01 PM | #20 |
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Yes his pipe work is excellent. I've not come across Clive Scarfe, but in the early 2000s there was another guy out your way/ or further towards Holt/Fakenham called Gordon Eadie or Eady, his pipe work was exceptional, with incredible welding skills too. Unfortunately I've no idea what happened to him.
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16-01-2019, 09:55 PM | #21 |
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Well it's a small world aint it?
I worked with Gordon's brother Martin and was great mates with him for years, but I have never met Gordon. I think he is working from Hevingham now, as a plumber...What a waste! I think he had a business on the airport industrial estate at one time called Gorfab?
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17-01-2019, 08:30 AM | #22 |
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I would not oversize the hole and the shock bush (the bush in the shock will become hot and may destroy any rubber between it and the eye on the shock).
Rather make a top hat bush bored 10mm, shoulder 12 or 13mm diameter and the same depth as the aluminium lug with the oval hole with the brim c20mm diameter and 1 or 1.5mm deep. You may also need a 1mm or 2mm longer shock bolt |
17-01-2019, 08:49 AM | #23 |
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Or weld up the hole & redrill?
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17-01-2019, 07:51 PM | #24 | |
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BTW, is his surname spelt Eadie or Eady? |
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