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Aero Reflex nOoB Build Phase 1..... Deliveries! (Pic Heavy)
griff:
dear spen
I only did one year of metalwork (including melting perspex lessons) at school and didn't manage to achieve anything other than
a) making copper go different colours the hotter it got, then hitting it with a little toffee hammer to make dents in it
b) burning off michael francis' fringe + eyebrows because he took too long to light the gas/air thing so we could do a)
seeing as michael francis was a big rugby playing type I was lucky I didn't get a beating (can still smell the burning hair)
anyway, before I had chance to find out which file I needed for my axles hutchman came to the rescue, and the start of a beautiful friendship began
and someone else told me to use an engineer to get the ends nicely profiled, so there!
next thing you'll be telling me to fit my brake pads myself ;D
see you on the 9th big boy :daumenhoch:
Clean:
--- Quote from: griff on March 23, 2011, 03:10 PM ---
a) making copper go different colours the hotter it got, then hitting it with a little toffee hammer to make dents in it
b) burning off michael francis' fringe + eyebrows because he took too long to light the gas/air thing so we could do a)
seeing as michael francis was a big rugby playing type I was lucky I didn't get a beating (can still smell the burning hair)
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ROFLMAO :2funny:
stfc:
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--- Quote from: Clean on March 23, 2011, 12:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: 1mancity2 on March 23, 2011, 12:36 PM ---Wet or Dry decal application Clean dat is da question????
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Was planning wet, based on everything I have read, and to be perfectly honest, this is the part of the build I have least confidence about! :shocked:
Help, already! :-[
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Dremmel ...
You are old enough to know it should always be done wet. ;) I've done loads of decal application at work and slippery is the way to go, allows repositioning. Warm water with a touch of washing up liquid. Note, a TOUCH...
And a word of warning based on my experience last night putting the new Tuffs on. The axle sizes are too big for the front forks! By about half a mm. Tw@ts. I managed to get em in with the help of a hammer and a bit of 'muffler' but not easy.
Bet you can't wait to get started!
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Spen69:
Griff, me and Hootski (my brother Simon) can offer years of A-Team style fixing things advice due to a miss-spent youth in our dad's engineering machine shop and my career in bridge-building since then.
Only one thing is variable bud, and that's just now I use bigger hammers ;-D
My brother once fixed a canal boat engine with a pen in the middle of Warrickshire as we were further than he was prepared to walk away from the next pub and fixed a tunnel boring machine when he was working in the middle of nowhere in Peru (so they could make their flight home) with plywood & gaffer-tape and is a natural genius at fixing anything mechanical. I jacked an 8,000T bridge into final position on a freezing cold Christmas day with a concrete motorway barrier and an old engine hoist (along with a 20,000T hydraulic jacking system) but just don't ask me to do a final tension on the spokes on my wheel builds as that's too tricky... ;-)
Doesn't mean to say we can fix your squeaky shite brakes, but we'll have a good go bud and I'll still give the new boy DJ Clean here a bit of a hard time if he can't bolt a set of Tuffs into his bike ;-D
Here's the "fix-it" gazeebo last year at MK with Hootski taking a rest from fixing stuff for 5mins.....
He needed the rest as this was the camp-fire at 8am after 3.5hrs sleep at MK last year :2funny:
Here's one of my bridges - this one's on the A12/M11 link road with Hootski in his dashing hi-vis controlling the jacks - I must have been mad :uglystupid2:
And here's another Christmas day job down in Ashford on the CTRL (Eurotunnel High Speed One) Line - we get all the glamorous jobs..... how to construct a new railway bridge in 31 hours :coolsmiley:
I'll get my coat, you're bored now aren't you....
So Griff, you riding your Master at the Boardroom in a couple of weeks? I'm bringing my Sport for it's maiden flying lesson as my NS 21" TT, 22" wheel monster was great on the jump box but too long and heavy in the bowl to turn... And it needs a scar or two as I always ride all my bikes eventually!
Now then Clean, you got that Reflex built ready for Chester on Saturday yet bud?
brettypeeps:
I offered him a bike to ride around on so there is no excuse really. Come on Richard Chester is calling and there is a bike waiting for you :4_17_5:
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