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Finally after too many years I'm working on my 500/4

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tom400f:

--- Quote from: matthewmosse on November 02, 2014, 09:50:09 AM ---In that rooftop jumble attic, I have about 8 x 500 or 550 sohc engines, 2 bmw aircooled boxer  lumps with gearboxes. A rebel 125 engine, a few kh125 engines and some kl250 ones, and a hatz diesel in bits, and most of about 14 motorbikes.....

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How the hell do you get it all up there? Difficult enough just managing with the bulk-buy toilet rolls!!!

And won't your ceiling collapse  :o ?

matthewmosse:
Chain hoist was the main mover, a lot followed up a ladder, a busted up wooden ladder with old bits of steel pipe etc where rungs have collapsed. The shed attic was built by me on zero budget using recycled timber in the main. I hope it can take the load ;D if it started to sag I have acro props and it is over engineered in the main. A lot of the timbers that carry load are 9x6 oak trusses, massive compared to modern building timber sizes. The rest is built of wood we logged by horse, and had sawn by a mobile sawmill. Minimal cash outlay. A lot of work. Waiting on the sawmill to come again to finish. Currently the wood to finish it is still very much tree shaped. Wr take diy to a silly level.

tom400f:
Your place sounds like something out of Game of Thrones. You sure you're not a Member of the Night's Watch ?
 ::)

matthewmosse:
Nights watch? Not a member, who are they?. Our place is your typical timewarp, run down welsh hill farm. Most farms round here were like it when I was little, the last 20 years has seen most farms either sell up to neighbours or get big. We are really too small to be profitable, more of a hobby / retirement income for my parents, and a good source of lamb for my freezer. More to the point it is biking paradise being in the middle of nowhere, so long as you don't mind mud.

matthewmosse:
Slow progress being made. Spent far too long with the lathe making anti crush tubes for the fiberglass mudgaurd at the back, fitted the front brake mount nuts. And finally got the bolt that runs through the rear bottom engine mount in properly. A 5 minute job on a solo, on my sidecar it goes threaded into a sidecar fitting on one side, so needs screwing into a hard to position fitting whilst through the engine etc. Dead tricky until I remembered about the stud driving set in the bottom of a tool chest, works in the same way as the starter clutch, 3 rollers that grip the stud. Fantastic bit of kit. Did the job in minutes, where struggling with mole grips had wasted twice as much time just because I was too busy to go unlock the other workshop.
 Other than that I have Bitsa would be pleased to know hada fair go at cleaning up the wworkshop. Sadly there is way too much stuff to do it properly. So I am building up 2 more bikes in the afternoons in the workshop where I fixed the lights. Kl250, and the 500/4 k0 are both undergoing the same wire brush in a drill then repaint job. Eldest kid started school last Monday so I have a few more hours to play with as an when the younger one takes a nap.

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