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Title: Real Anorak stuff on Restoration of Serial Numbers
Post by: AshimotoK0 on October 24, 2022, 07:49:55 AM


https://www.dropbox.com/s/ugnwcvfg7tb8pqd/81771NCJRS.pdf?dl=0
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Post by: Orcade-Ian on October 24, 2022, 10:56:08 AM
Heck Ash,
That's a really comprehensive series of articles, anyone would think you have a vested interest in the subject  :). There are some very useful tables - Brinell hardness and relative density spring to mind.  It transported me back over 50 years ago to Brough and Hawker Siddeley (as was) where I spent time in Materials testing and prepared many etched macro specimens mounted in bakelite for examination following heat treatment.  Thanks for sharing.

Ian

Forgot to say I'm surprised you haven't joined the pissing contest about whether casings are polished or painted - we know you have experience.
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Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on October 24, 2022, 10:58:13 AM
Forensically explained - interesting read.
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Post by: Matt_Harrington on October 24, 2022, 11:36:47 AM
Forensically explained - interesting read.

I hope you read it all!  ;)
Matt
Title: Re: Real Anorak stuff on Restoration of Serial Numbers
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on October 24, 2022, 06:28:35 PM
Forensically explained - interesting read.

I hope you read it all!  ;)
Matt
I've been privy to SOCO recovering ground off numbers in my former life.
Title: Re: Real Anorak stuff on Restoration of Serial Numbers
Post by: Matt_Harrington on October 25, 2022, 10:38:01 AM
Ah Ha!  8)
Matt
Title: Re: Real Anorak stuff on Restoration of Serial Numbers
Post by: Laverdaroo on October 26, 2022, 01:40:47 PM
Forgot to say I'm surprised you haven't joined the pissing contest about whether casings are polished or painted - we know you have experience.

Quiet snigger! ;) ;D
Title: Re: Real Anorak stuff on Restoration of Serial Numbers
Post by: AshimotoK0 on October 26, 2022, 01:48:54 PM
Heck Ash,
That's a really comprehensive series of articles, anyone would think you have a vested interest in the subject  :)

Yea this :

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Title: Re: Real Anorak stuff on Restoration of Serial Numbers
Post by: Laverdaroo on October 26, 2022, 02:53:37 PM
Thats wicked Ash. I knew you had it from a previous post but never seen it. Is that one of the ones you mentioned that were on the original advertising by Honda back then?
OR, am I thinking of a completely different bike? In my defence Ive just got back from the states and a bit fuzzy with the sleep depravation from the flight :D
Title: Re: Real Anorak stuff on Restoration of Serial Numbers
Post by: AshimotoK0 on October 27, 2022, 08:43:39 AM
Thats wicked Ash. I knew you had it from a previous post but never seen it. Is that one of the ones you mentioned that were on the original advertising by Honda back then?
OR, am I thinking of a completely different bike? In my defence Ive just got back from the states and a bit fuzzy with the sleep depravation from the flight :D

No ...the only Honda UK press bike I own is the CD175A sloper 'OLA 4E' that was reviewed in 'Motorcycle' and used in 1967 brochures.

Review here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmj1fju95l8xbtj/CD175%20Sloper%20Reviews.pdf?dl=0

However, only last week I proved that a friends C110D  was a Honda press bike '576 PG', used in the brochure here in the pic. attached. He had to pay an eye-watering £155 for the brochure in an eBay bidding war but well worth it as provenance. He was over the moon, as I had been harping on to him for a couple of years that I had a hunch it was a press bike. The brochure is rare as it as published when Honda UK was still based in Kingston-on-Thames.

Here are the sad pics of both press bikes concerned. My sloper CD175 and his C110D (later became C114) plus the brochure pic.. Mine will be a high pipe version C110.


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Post by: Laverdaroo on October 27, 2022, 11:13:00 AM
That is incredible Ash, what fab things they are. Slightly jelous looking at them, what finds! :)
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Post by: JamesH on October 27, 2022, 12:00:18 PM
Thats wicked Ash. I knew you had it from a previous post but never seen it. Is that one of the ones you mentioned that were on the original advertising by Honda back then?
OR, am I thinking of a completely different bike? In my defence Ive just got back from the states and a bit fuzzy with the sleep depravation from the flight :D

No ...the only Honda UK press bike I own is the CD175A sloper 'OLA 4E' that was reviewed in 'Motorcycle' and used in 1967 brochures.

Review here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmj1fju95l8xbtj/CD175%20Sloper%20Reviews.pdf?dl=0

However, only last week I proved that a friends C110D  was a Honda press bike '576 PG', used in the brochure here in the pic. attached. He had to pay an eye-watering £155 for the brochure in an eBay bidding war but well worth it as provenance. He was over the moon, as I had been harping on to him for a couple of years that I had a hunch it was a press bike. The brochure is rare as it as published when Honda UK was still based in Kingston-on-Thames.

Here are the sad pics of both press bikes concerned. My sloper CD175 and his C110D (later became C114) plus the brochure pic.. Mine will be a high pipe version C110.


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Ash - you need to bring that bike down to Brighton so we can re-create the photo!


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Post by: Oddjob on October 27, 2022, 02:49:06 PM
I thought it was India with the domes.
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Post by: Laverdaroo on October 27, 2022, 03:57:48 PM
That's Brighton, India Ken. Near Mumbai ;) ;D
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Post by: JamesH on October 27, 2022, 06:35:02 PM
I thought it was India with the domes.
Lol it’s the Royal Pavilion in Brighton Ken - built by a rather eccentric king several centuries ago…


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Title: Re: Real Anorak stuff on Restoration of Serial Numbers
Post by: Seabeowner on October 28, 2022, 07:07:55 PM
C110, my first bike HMY 483B with the high level pipe, maybe it's at the back of a shed.
Cost £5 and spent most of it's time apart. I remember an argument with an "expert" who helped me but insisted that the engine oil went nowhere near the carb.
Title: Re: Real Anorak stuff on Restoration of Serial Numbers
Post by: Oddjob on October 28, 2022, 07:17:05 PM
Been to Brighton and can't remember ever seeing those domes, saying that I was driving an HGV so maybe I was concentrating on the road instead.
Title: Re: Real Anorak stuff on Restoration of Serial Numbers
Post by: Bryanj on October 28, 2022, 08:01:10 PM
Thats the real Brighton Ken not New Brighton!
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