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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: oldschoolace on January 08, 2018, 03:16 PM
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A rather miserable flu filled christmas break was brightened up by a mail from Chubby with news of a rotor find he knew i wouldnt have. Seems he had been thumbing through some old mags and stumbled upon this article
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With only the info in the article to go on i set about googling Stuarts name in conjunction with Scotland, Bmx, Aberdeen, etc. All the usual and somewhat generic related keywords in the hope something would pop up.
Amazingly i found an old post of his on bmx talk where he mentioned he was a rider for Vincent and rather unusually had posted his phone number for anothr memeber on ther to contact him.
The thread was 10 years old but with no other leads i drafted a introductory text and pinged it off expecting no reply.
Amazingly he answered :daumenhoch:
Sadly he told me the only one produced was the one in the add. He had never taken any orders and had long since binned the prototype in the add. He did however say he thought he may have some old pics somewhere in a folder and would have a look over the holidays.
A week went by with no word and just as i was starting to think the worse i got an email with some hi res pics and some helpful recollections as to the rotors construction.
The next step was obvious, a rotor had to be reproduced!!
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Stuart indicated that the rotor had ball bearings and using the distinctive scalloped mid section as i guide a search though a few of my regular bearing sites suggested it was probably a lose ball thrust bearing. One was duely ordered and it arrived this morning, thankfully confrming my guesswork :daumenhoch:
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I'm loving this thread already!
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Brilliant! A good bit of detective work and an engineering tease. I'm looking forward to the outcome of this beauty :daumenhoch:
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Top work AGAIN Our Clint.
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I'm loving this thread already!
X2 :daumenhoch:
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Cheers lads, feels good to be fettling again :D
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Great, how this came about. ;) I'm sure this will become another one of your epic threads. :daumenhoch:
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explosion awesome
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The man's a genius! :daumenhoch: love threads like this
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http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=558181
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This thread is going to be good. Well, it is already, but it's only going to get better! Top work Clint :4_17_5:
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Ace work as ever Clint,looking forward to more of it :daumenhoch:
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I couldn't find the rotor thread Clint!
Spotted this Columbia freestyle complete on the bay..has an interesting rotor setup. Not really worth buying the bike for the rotor but one to look out for....
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/old-school-bmx-bike-columbia-free-style-1985/172938169374?hash=item2843eb0c1e:g:an0AAOSwk~ZZ6w~1
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I've never ridden anything with a rotor (helicopters aside), but I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out! Great work so far Clint! :bow:
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Thanks lads and cheers Damo.
Ive got one of those. There is a lad on US ebay trying to sell one for silly money as he thinks its kuwi magician specific :LolLolLolLol:
Final drawings done, now to get the thing knocked up :)
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You finished it yet ???
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Yep! pics on the way :daumenhoch:
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All done!
Well happy with how it came out. Spins lovely too :daumenhoch:
The original compared with mine
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=191856.0;attach=32871;image;ts=1515424616)
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WOW explosion
Amazing work Clint :4_17_5:
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Top stuff :daumenhoch:
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That's stunning! "wantit"
Amazing amount of skill and commitment there. I love a good rotor and have only built two bikes without one!
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That is a big fat thing of beauty, what year was the Mag ???
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top skills mate :daumenhoch:
are you going to try and recreate a rgd spinner next?
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That is a big fat thing of beauty, what year was the Mag ???
Not sure why I asked you, I fookin sent it to you !!!!!
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think its from an action bike -apr'85 at a guess ,got the mag myself but am away at the mo so can't confirm
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That is a big fat thing of beauty, what year was the Mag ???
Not sure why I asked you, I fookin sent it to you !!!!!
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:LolLolLolLol:
I do worry about you mate ;D
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Looks ace... what is it. :teef:
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You get enough to make 2 ???
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just seen this, awesome story and detective work and even better result
great work Clint :daumenhoch:
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Loved reading this, outstanding work.
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You get enough to make 2 ???
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Don’t do him one Clint. He’ll only keep it at home and not show it off at MK. Just like the stem you did him ;)
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You get enough to make 2 ???
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Don’t do him one Clint. He’ll only keep it at home and not show it off at MK. Just like the stem you did him ;)
:LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
There's only a certain amount of room in a transit van you know.........
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Final pic to give a sense of scale :daumenhoch:
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Looks fookin ace Clint explosion
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Great bodging dude
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Fantastic our Clinton :daumenhoch:
Have you shown it to Stu?
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Top job Clint! :bow:
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Clever Cnut Clint.
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Cheers lads.
Going to drop Stu a line this week with a few pics :daumenhoch:
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Great job as always Clint! :4_17_5: I bet it glides super smooth. :daumenhoch: