No easy way to do this. I put a parting off tool in as far as I could then with the lathe on "slow ahead" I hacksawed through the rest of it with 1 hack saw blade and lots of 20/50. I cannot remember how long it took, but going off to an engineering firm with a mech saw, and coming back a week later etc etc was an unacceptable option. Eventually, I was able to clean up both sides and make it look respectable. Since then I have bought several "biscuits" cut off from bar stock, to save time, and I found this empowering as having material in stock, for Handwheels / starter roller ends etc etc has been useful, and saved a lot of hack sawing. Alan
@@alanglen5902 I find the parting off tool one of the worst jobs on a Lathe, I machined the 4 aluminium brake drum muffs for my Vincent with a tapered parting tool, it was a sweat inducing job! For those large diameter "disc" jobs I have a Warco bandsaw, very cheap and surprisingly useful. Chris B.
@carlnapp4412 Originally, the oil tank breathed through a small hole in the filler cap. When I started road racing I found that scavaged gas came out the hole and also drove oil out as the road surfaces were rough. I made up a gas / oil separator, and set it into the filler cap, and put a breather pipe on it. It works well and only scavenge gas comes out and it also means the oil tank is never pressurised.
Good to see a video with someone who knows what he's talking about
Wow Alan your super 7 looks in mint nick 😁👍 watching from sunny Thailand 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Very useful information, thank you for sharing! Keep up the good work
I love the 'Wild Man' look.
Very good first video and look forward to the next instalment!
Nice one Alan. Very informative.
Enjoyed video, interesting & informative
Really interesting stuff Alan, keep up the good work, I will share this on a few Irish bike pages if that is OK ?
Certainly.
Not a problem.
Alan
Does the 5-speed give you a higher final ratio or does it simply take the original top-bottom ratio and divide by 5 instead of 4?
Top gear is still 1 to 1, and I get better acceleration with the additional ratio.
How did you part off the new tool from the very large billet? Surely not on the Myford! Chris B.
No easy way to do this. I put a parting off tool in as far as I could then with the lathe on "slow ahead" I hacksawed through the rest of it with 1 hack saw blade and lots of 20/50.
I cannot remember how long it took, but going off to an engineering firm with a mech saw, and coming back a week later etc etc was an unacceptable option.
Eventually, I was able to clean up both sides and make it look respectable.
Since then I have bought several "biscuits" cut off from bar stock, to save time, and I found this empowering as having material in stock, for Handwheels / starter roller ends etc etc has been useful, and saved a lot of hack sawing.
Alan
@@alanglen5902 I find the parting off tool one of the worst jobs on a Lathe, I machined the 4 aluminium brake drum muffs for my Vincent with a tapered parting tool, it was a sweat inducing job! For those large diameter "disc" jobs I have a Warco bandsaw, very cheap and surprisingly useful. Chris B.
What is the particular cover on the oil tank for?
@carlnapp4412 Originally, the oil tank breathed through a small hole in the filler cap. When I started road racing I found that scavaged gas came out the hole and also drove oil out as the road surfaces were rough.
I made up a gas / oil separator, and set it into the filler cap, and put a breather pipe on it. It works well and only scavenge gas comes out and it also means the oil tank is never pressurised.