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UK Pete:
I wonder what the difference in cost would be to finding a second hand one, rather than a repair?
Pete

RupertB:
Replying in vague order - yes it is the Pete Lovell who does Norvil work. I had a Commando for 26 years and would trust anyone Les Emery uses for quality work.
Will keep everyone posted on cost etc for sure.
A new set of barrels is a possibility - depends on cost of fin repair and if the old pistons are useable, as an expensive fin job and a rebore would make new barrels more economic potentially. Could also consider grinding some of the fns back, but a black finish on the barrels is also more likely as it hides a multitude of imperfections.
My wife wears black a lot.....

Bryanj:
I do hope you were mentaly ducking at that last comment!! Used cylinders should beeasy enough depending on exact model

kaceyk2:
My wife only wears black. If i was "allowed" a "second wife" to add to the first , it would be Rachel Riley off countdown.Not only could she wear any colour or nothing at all, but could help with the mathamatics of cost on rebuilds. I want to go on countdown just so I can say "I want two from your top, and the rest from your bottom , please Rachel" on the numbers round. I get distracted. I also have a good joke I made up about Jordan and Marmite. feel free to ask.

Yoshi823:
I would expect fins to be broken either side of a gasket jointing face, but not half way up the fins. It's more like the bike has been abused in the way that it's been stored rather than an inept 'home mechanic'.

Talking of broken fins, a friend of mine bought himself a Honda CBX1000ZA from Coburn & Hughes up in Luton many many moons ago. For some reason the base gasket went when the bike was not that old & so my firend booked it in to have it repaired. But when he got it back from C&H we both noticed at the same time that one of the fins had been broken off & stuck back on. Luckily it was when we went up there to pick the bike up & we had not actually left the premises. They tried to suggest that it was broken before it was taken to them for the base gasket to be done...but we had photographic evidence of the base gasket poking out of the engine, right where the later broken fin occurred.

No wonder C&H went down the pan...

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