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CB160 Steering Damper Knob Restoration.
Laverda Dave:
Is there no end to your talents Ash! Microwave dent pullers, capacitor mods, sealed ignition coil overhauls, false teeth repairs and now steering damper knob rebuilds, amazing work and attention to detail 👍.
If I give you a fully working CB160 steering damper can you build a complete CB160 around it for me please🙂
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: Laverda Dave on September 06, 2024, 10:38:57 PM ---Is there no end to your talents Ash! Microwave dent pullers, capacitor mods, sealed ignition coil overhauls, false teeth repairs and now steering damper knob rebuilds, amazing work and attention to detail 👍.
If I give you a fully working CB160 steering damper can you build a complete CB160 around it for me please🙂
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Needs must sometimes Dave. Some stuff is just not around any more or when it is , at a price that is pure extortion. My next 'project' and one for myself this time, are the pesky alloy blocks that mount the flyscreen to the headlamp on the CB92 Benly sport.
I have a lot of history with these... acquired two pairs for my own '61 CB92 (one pair I found in a box of non-motorbike related old crap I got with the stash of bits/bikes I got from a garden in Crawley, long before I got my CB92 project) and the other pair came with my bike project. Got a mercy call last year from a friend of a friend who was severely depressed and needed to finish his CB92 so I donated a pair for free. Then, gathered the bits together for my own bike and couldn't find the 2nd pair after endless searching, so, in desperation I begged a dealer I know to sell me a set for £60 (normally a lot more than that but he took pity on me).
Now I am in need of a second set (don't ask me why, and NO I didn't lose the pair I bought) BUT no way am I throwing myself to the vultures that sell CB92 parts, so I am going into the place my brother used to own, that has a non-ferrous metal foundry, to cadge some fine moulding sand and I am going to cast myself a set.
Here are the little b*stards:-
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taysidedragon:
Should be able to mill those from solid aluminium.
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: taysidedragon on September 07, 2024, 04:17:26 PM ---Should be able to mill those from solid aluminium.
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They have double curvature surfaces on them ... well beyond my machining skills and to pay somebody to draw up and make them would probably be as expensive, or even more, than tracking down a used OEM set.
taysidedragon:
--- Quote from: AshimotoK0 on September 07, 2024, 09:27:44 PM ---
--- Quote from: taysidedragon on September 07, 2024, 04:17:26 PM ---Should be able to mill those from solid aluminium.
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They have double curvature surfaces on them ... well beyond my machining skills and to pay somebody to draw up and make them would probably be as expensive, or even more, than tracking down a used OEM set.
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Fair enough.
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