Takes me back ,My Dad teaching me to alter cables spreading the cable into a recess in the nipple before soldering about 45 years ago ,keep up the great vids
Michael, it's 19 deg.F outside, the woodburning stove is keeping me toasty and I've been sitting here drinking me cuppa in absolute awe of this latest build. Thank you for a really entertaining Sunday evening. All the best from Putnam Valley NY.
As I've previously commented. The cage on a deep shaft coal mine is attached to the winding cable using a white metal capping & a clevis in exactly the same method that Michael used for the brake cable. So yes, it's strong enough.
Almost caught up now, bike is looking really good. You can make a 'bird cage' tool for forming the inner cable prior to soldering. Easy job on the lathe and better than paying £100 for one. I use a solder crucible and dip the cable in, saves oxidising with the flame. Best wishes, Dean in Oxfordshire.
Learn-by-doing. It's a kind of art making cables. Takes me back to my first of this kind of repair when the clutch cable end broke off my Zundapp 200 and with no convenient way to get a new one, resorted to my own kind of fix, such as the making of this one on the C-15. All done with an electric soldering iron and a bench grinder to shorten the outer enough to regain the proper working lengths. I gravitated to making motorcycle mechanics my line of work for the next 20 or so years.
The devil is always in the detail, especially at the end of a build. Another great instructional as well, thanks Mike, bike really starting to look the goods.
Looking forward to your next program.i think you are lucky in the states.you can still get bikes at ok prices. Here in the uk the prices have gone through the roof.my first c15 was a standard road bike.paid 15 pound for it ready to ride??.then I bought two grasstrack c15s. Crashed the one and put the engine into a rickman montesa i bought with no engine. Rode that one for a few years. Never a problem.then bought a b25. Kept blowing up. So went japanese. Stay safe see you in the next program
WOW Extra value this week Michael 59 minutes of great stuff!! I saw your shirt catch the nipple when you were reaching for the gas on the shelf, that's what moved the nipple down! I was thinking you might have just used a nearly flat plate to mount the speedo then there would be no problem with getting at the bolts, although your way they are hidden!. That's it for another week, Stay Warm and Stay Safe during these terrible times You make me forget about it all for a little time on a Sunday, Thank You, Dave UK.
I have for many years used Bakers fluid for soldering nipples as the solder wouldn't take to the steel with the wax type, I must try it again as bakers fluid is a pain (if only they made a gel or paste). On Elliot Lucas pliers there is a square cut out on each lever I use to cut the inner cable, I'm not sure if it's meant for that but works for me. Great vid as usual.
Hello Michael, again thanks for such super instructions. The cable making is so helpful; the speedometer bracket a work of art. I wish you had shown how you cut out its shape so nicely. I'm afraid though I have work to do on my C15, the garage is too cold so from the warmth of my wee study I enjoy your efforts. Looking forward to seeing it running.
@@BritanniaMotorcycles Michael that is kind to take the time to reply on such a busy RU-vid channel. You have equipment I just don't have and experience and knowledge that I can only dream of. Your work is lovely. Your teaching so helpful. Keep the lovely work going. I look forward to each weeks offering.
As ever, Michael, very impressed. An attention to detail that is exemplary. But I don't understand choosing to not illuminate the speedo. You're selling this lovely bike as a roadster and the buyer may well choose to ride at night. A simple thing to do. Wouldn't pass an MOT here in the perennially dark UK. Love the bike, would love to own it. Keep well, pal.
Never rely on solder alone to attach the nipple to the cable inner, always "mushroom" the end to prevent the nipple pulling off the end especially on the brake cable. I learnt that lesson the hard way when having fitted a new "aftermarket" cable before setting off from home in Dublin, the cable came apart a few days later going downhill in the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. The bike was fully loaded with camping gear and a pillion passenger!
I really enjoy your videos! I noticed when you put the propane bottle back on the shelf at 27:03 your shirt hit the nipple and moved it down the cable, looked like something I would do :-)
When you were looking for the brake cable you had cut, it reminded me of the old pantomimes, “It’s behind you!” Also I would have made a flat speedo mount plate, with probably a slighter bend to the required angle. It would be shorter, away from the headlight, and a damn site easier to fit all the screws! I thought it looked too high. Just my opinion! ;-)
I have also used this term for 50 odd years, it came from my dad for any housing or mounting for clocks and instruments, in a car, he would've called where the binnacle is mounted a dash, it's a term I believe originates from ships (the compass mounting) but has been used for all sorts of vehicles for a long time. It's a good word, I think. I enjoy old terms. i.e. yoke as being the proper engineering term for what the Americans call triple trees originates from the wooden part that joined 2 cows together and with a rod attached to a plough or cart. If you are British you probably knew this anyway. You probably didn't expect that answer lol.
Michael, I'm really enjoying working through your several series of restoration work, although I'm glad I have stayed with Oriental and German bikes! Silly question - what's the music at the start of your videos? Cheers.
Tim Bateup Englsh Trials Rider (Montessa Team Rider) told me when he made cables for his Trials Bike he used a very small Panel Pin tapped in to the end of the inner cable as it was safely wedged before filling with Solder but that years ago but I like it so far ps think it needs speedo light for the odd days !
Watching you bend that speedo bracket Michael, it looks like you made a bending attachment for your hydraulic press. Could we have a quick look sometime? Excellent videos as always!
Thanks! I meant the whole arrangement within your hydraulic press really. It looks like you have taken your press and added a couple of weldments & two springs and turned it into a press brake? Sounds like two tools for the space of one, very useful.
Hello, Michael It is really coming along nicely. I do the same with the cables and mapp gas. I usually never have propane on hand and end up having to do a dance with the fire and solder, lol. I have a random question for you. I just bought a basket case 69 BSA Starfire 250 and it has what seems to be a nicer front end than what is on my 441 project. Specifically the front brake which is a twin leading shoe design. Would you know off hand if the front end is a straight swap? And if there are any plus or minuses with the 250 forks compared to the 441? i thought you might have some knowledge there. All the best! Eddie
Hello Eddie. The forks on both bikes are identical other than the mudguard mountings and the wheel spindle if I remember right. The B44 has a push through spindle which screws into one fork leg, the TLS wheel has a captive spindle and the forks have end caps.
I'm baffled....This "fake Sammy Miller" does a tutorial on how to make a brake cable...Really!!! (Every inept male has done that so many times on its bike when was a kid that now can do the job blindfolded....). Its expert big advice is to leave the inner cable long when cutting it save after two minutes realizing he has cut it short. I am convinced his immaculate shop is prop at the Pinewood Studios or it is CGI...The man has no calluses on his hands and his ineptitude in each job he has shown in the clips demonstrates he is a fraud. Maybe his doctor, to placate his sick delusions of grandeur has told him to find a hobby and he, after a life counting beans in the City has constructed this castle of lies. If this man is a mechanic I'm the Batman.
Hello Batman. Michael has forgotten more than you will ever know about motorcycle mechanics. What he doesn't know can be writ on a postage stamp in crayon!
