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Fraccie:
Finally, after getting the daughters 400 SD up and running properly, I got around to sorting the 400/4 out. Got the carbs rebuilt,balanced and cleaned up by someone far more experienced than me ( i know my limitations), the bike purred like a beaut after a bit of fiddling, everything works and looks good.

So I decided that the rusty old petrol cap really spoilt how the bike looks, it will never be a show winner,just a nice old bike,so I bit the bullet and ordered one from the company whom I have spent far too much money with,David Silvers of course. Anyway,new cap arrives, did some very careful drilling and tapping to remove the old one, fit the new shiney cap and promptly dropped the smallest bloody e-clip ever made on the floor..."oh dear" or words to that effect. A quick sweep with a welding magnet of the garage floor area and it was located and promptly fit onto the pivot shaft.

So onto fitting the catch, thought i`d learned my lesson?....What a nob, dropped the other microscopic e-clip, which has proved invisible ,non magnetic and downright unhelpful.

I have had to buy a bag of ten of these tiny e-clips, hopefully I shall only need one ( not bleeding likely,the size of them and my sausage fingers).

The point of the post, if anybody else buys a new cap and is as clumsy as me, give me a shout.I will have some spare,unless I really balls it up.

Cheers.

mike the bike:
Fiddly things like switches and microscopic e clips are best done on the kitchen table.  I learned that the hard way.

Johnwebley:

--- Quote from: mike the bike on February 07, 2017, 06:08:59 PM ---Fiddly things like switches and microscopic e clips are best done on the kitchen table.  I learned that the hard way.

--- End quote ---


  agrees with Mike ,also use  a white sheet,or similar it will stop it rolling,bouncing etc to far,


  voice of experience,
BTW  float bowl screws seem the most elusive !!!

Fraccie:
voices of experience there guys,cheers.

I`m more used to dealing with plant,little clips are not the norm on those.

dmit:
a trick I learned when dealing with small assemblies with tiny fiddly or spring loaded parts, is to get a very large zip lock bag, place the parts and tools required into the bag, place your hands into the bag, wrists to the far edges, and more than likely you'll need help but how ever you get it done "zip" the bag between your wrists. It anything goes boing it'll be contained in the bag.

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