550 F2 started!

[Laverdaroo]

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[Bryanj]

Told you it would turn up after you got another one! Cable looks right to me

[Sesman]

Oh, aye. Coming on very nicely.You gonna build the wheels yourself?

[Matt_Harrington]

Plenty of progress there Roo. The engine looks great!
Matt

[Nurse Julie]

Getting there Roo. It's a 'ch'.... stanchions

[Laverdaroo]

Told you it would turn up after you got another one! Cable looks right to me

Its ther original one, I had it in a bag with all the fixings for the gear mech behind the clutch, must have had it in my hands about 30 times and still not twigged! Doh!
Lesson here is, wash everything and put it in clean bags whilst stripping and try not to write on the bag with whitr board marker so it doesnt rub off yer pillock Roo!

Gonna have a go at the wheels meself Phil, the 400 ones turned out really well so ordered spokes etc today as part of another £250+ order to all and sundry!  with the forks, thats over £500 this week.................eek!

[Laverdaroo]

Getting there Roo. It's a 'ch'.... stanchions

You need to be on Countdown Julie
Couldnt remember,

I think I'm Lexdislick!

[Sesman]

I know, it adds up. I’ll never get back what I have in the 550, which is why I’ve favoured it over the 500. I need to ride the 550 just to get some ‘value’ out of it. To be fair, if I’d been able to snag a 500 for what the 550 cost, the restoration cost would have been similar, but the cost/value deficit would have been less…..sob, whimper.

My future plan is to restore the Triton, sell it and wait patiently for a substantially complete 500, even a completed one if the ‘price is right’. That will be a while, as the Clipper RTW cost is punitive.

I’m still looking for a benefactor……..

[Oddjob]

Professionals get dents out by spot welding a small rod onto the dent, then use a slide hammer action on the rod to pull the dent out, the spot weld is then ground off.

Should have put a close up pic of the clutch cover up so we could see how the chromers did with the repolish. Doesn't look to bad from a distance but could be pants close up.

[Laverdaroo]

It’s not great but passable I suppose!

Should have paid you to do it Ken if I’m honest!
Least it would have been right!
Here’s the routing of the points lead, forgot to bob a piccies up

Just looks odd to me, anything Vance moved but just thought it didn’t look very Honda and didn’t take a piccy cos I’m stupid


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[Laverdaroo]

Professionals get dents out by spot welding a small rod onto the dent, then use a slide hammer action on the rod to pull the dent out, the spot weld is then ground off.

Should have put a close up pic of the clutch cover up so we could see how the chromers did with the repolish. Doesn't look to bad from a distance but could be pants close up.

That’s after them doing it twice! It doesn’t photo well but the staining is still there.

Can’t get the light right to get a decent shot of the rippling and graunching they added onto it for free FFS!


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[Oddjob]

See if you can get some largish shrink tube, put it over the cable clamps and just shrink it into place. Sharp edges like those will wear the covering away. Position looks ok TBH. If you need some I've probably got some lying around.

Not great that is it, I can see the staining and the scratches, which TBH usually look worse in a pic than they do in real life, I can see where they caught the edges on something as well. Got to be honest and say I've seen much worse. I can't say for sure that I'd have done better without doing one myself first, they could be complete bitches to do OR they could be pretty easy, hard to say without doing one. I've got more than a few of them TBH so maybe I'll have a go and see how one comes out.

My lads grab rail is looking to be the best I've ever done I think, if the finish before you start to polish is anything to go by it should be better than you're sliders. They were really really bad to start off with, one of the worse I've ever started with I reckon.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

.............................. wait patiently for a substantially complete 500, even a completed one if the ‘price is right’.

I've advised  Wendy if I fall off the perch unexpectedly to contact Roo to offer up my 400 & 500 here on the sohc site before giving her brother the oportutnity to move it on.

[Sesman]

Excellent plan. Keep moving Ted; motion is lotion.