For those who like British bikes, but know that that means a lot more than Triumphs and BSAs, I started Britannia Motorcycles. In the videos you will see restorations such as the 1947 Sunbeam S7, and the specials and BSA 250 based trials bikes that I build. I hope that you will enjoy the channel.
Happy birthday! 🎉 - I’ve just had my 78th. I wondered if you could have made blank bushes, put them into the swinging fork (“swinging arm”) and then line-bored them. But I didn’t realise till you showed us that one leg was higher than the other. You did it the right way anyway! It hasn’t been easy, but I think you might really love the bike when it’s finished. However, I don’t know how you ‘finish’ these projects and then leave them. I thought I’d finished my little Honda 125, but every time I look at it I see one more detail I think I’ll alter - and away I go again! Enjoy this week and don’t get too worked up over the tree-people..🌳🌲 Les in Chester🇬🇧
Happy birthday Micheal. I had the same problems with my Gold Star swingarm which i converted to solid bushings like you did. I made 2 bushings, the first out of brass slightly undersized and in this brass bushing goes the nylon bush. the light undersize made it possible to aligne both sides and once aligned the brass bushing was glued in with loctite 638.
Hello chap, I braze refrigeration equipment both copper and mixed metals parts. For the heat sensitive parts we do not want to or cannot damage we wet rag (cotton rags) around the part/s we need to protect. Maybe you could try that next time you want to do something like this again it works really well to protect to part/s that will not take heat or an open flame.
Happy birthday Michael. What a palaver with the swinging arm, you might well have been better off treating it to a new Britannia Special. Looks like you have it on the straight and narrow now. Best wishes, Dean.
Just stumbled on your channel. Seems I have a lot more to look at. Just a few days ago happened to get my hands on my first trial bike. A 1968 build, a B44 engine fitted in a modified Husqvarna motocross chassis. Came with it's number plates from Scottish Sixdays. Weight 220 lbs wet seems quite decent. Runs but a couple of things to fix. Will be fun to play with, when to old to race the old Manx Norton.
think you may have bent that in when pressing bush in would it not of been easyier to press it back a bit ?? 47:40 might be camera angle but from this view looks like left side tappers in to wheel and right tappers out left needs pulled out and down
Tip for you Michael from an experienced turner, when doing those plastic swing arm bushes, you could have parted those of using the same spindle speed as you turned the bushes at. Delrin or Acetal turns and parts nicely at around 750-1000 rpm as do most bush style plastics. I agree with you that the repair you did to the swing arm caused the twist. And probably the out of alignment with the spindle bushes as well somehow. Happy Birthday to you for next week.
28:24 They don't need to meet in the middle. You could have two top hat bushes in each side and a clearance gap, the thrust faces would act for controlling the end movement.
Hi Michael, not sure if this will work in your situation but on the road racers we always made the spacers with a spigot on the end to fit into the wheel bearings so they did not fall out when the wheel spindle was removed. The bore of the spacer was made to fit the spindle. In this way the spacer forms a step down bush a good fit in the bearing with the bush drilled to fit the spindle. hope this tip helps.
Thanks for providing such a kind and intelligent channel over the years. I enjoy every video from the nose tap until your signature. You really are a mensch.
Michael, if its any comfort, Ade at AG Engineering made a set of extension pieces for the forks on his Matchless/BSA project. If it's good enough for Ade, its A-OK! Have a great week, Dean.
Hey Mike, we didn't know you spoke German but you pronunciation of "Gut un tight" was perfect, and yes we also noticed that you were teasing us with that little the little bit of Tommy Cooper when referring to the bearing parts catalogue "Just like that" you can take the boy out of Hartlepool but you cant take Hartlepool out of the boy. Great vid mate, measuring is getting better. Best regards from all at Spoons
My mother was from Hartlepool but my dad was 100% Yorkshire so we never mentioned it. I am a Boro boy and that was in the North Riding when I was born. No Monkey Hangers here.
Michael, why are you putting so much time and effort into this fork project when it would’ve been so much easier to use the original leading link Greeves forks
How much time would it take to repair the Greeves forks? and then would I be sure that they were not rusted thin somewhere else. Plus, what else have I got to use my time on.
When I splice steering stems . Which I've done a few times I always heat the tube up and shrink it on the slug I put inside the two parts . And the bloody things always seem to warp when you weld them . And you spend the rest of the day on the press
Pity about the damage but glad you are Ok and the house is untouched. On the bright side there's plenty of firewood for next year! There's always an upside.
Hi Michael, The forks you have are the older type of BSA forks with damper rods, these were used on the 1967 victor roadster B44 and also the C25 Barracuda 250cc.Thay used a7 inch single sided hub on these.The reason the longer fork seal holders were used on the 1967 B44 and C25 was because they used a fork shroud cum headlamp bracket like they used on the early B31. the 1968 starfire B25 250cc used a full width hub which used end caps on the fork bottoms, and because they used rubber gaiters on the forks they used shorter fork seal holders with an external ring fastened mid way up the holder to locate in place the bottom of the rubber gaiter. Later B44 and B25s used shuttle valve forks instead of damper rods. Hope this helps, regards Graham, West Yorkshire.
Hello Michael, well that's a turn up for the books. I hope you and the families around are okay. Just shows you never know whats around the corner. All the best with the clean up, regards Kevin.
Apart from the trials sections Michael, looks like the main structures have escaped - house and workshop ? The power of nature is quite scary at times ! All is safe here in the UK (at the moment !)....
Take care Michael, watch out for branches that could still fall while you’re inspecting the property. Like you said a really strong wind has certainly done a lot of damage in a short time. Be safe 👍👍
