Re: Got Me One
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 8:21 am
This is going to be good !
This is supposed to be a 78:
Edit: Can't be a 78 with that gearbox.
Red badges look best with red paint though.
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Re: Got Me One
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:17 pm
I think the red badges where 78 on, only the 77 RS had blue. It's been a long time.
This is supposed to be a 78:
Edit: Can't be a 78 with that gearbox.
Red badges look best with red paint though.
This is supposed to be a 78:
Edit: Can't be a 78 with that gearbox.
Red badges look best with red paint though.
Re: Got Me One
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:07 pm
Gidday,
I swallowed long n hard when I hit the buy now button last night...
So some tastefully applied gold pinstriping may be needed on the old ''clot'' when it arrives, quill and dagger-liner on standby.
I swallowed long n hard when I hit the buy now button last night...
So some tastefully applied gold pinstriping may be needed on the old ''clot'' when it arrives, quill and dagger-liner on standby.
Re: Got Me One
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 7:22 pm
Gidday,
Many thanks to Timo I now have a set of engine badges on flight from sunny Hawaii destined for frosty Gippsland.
Cheers and thanks for you help once again
Many thanks to Timo I now have a set of engine badges on flight from sunny Hawaii destined for frosty Gippsland.
Cheers and thanks for you help once again
Re: Got Me One
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 5:42 pm
Gidday,
Eden from "Polish n Shine", the local metal polisher couldn't of waltzed thru my signshop doors yesterday at a better time if I'd planned it, he needed a few decals cut out for a car, so I showed him the pix of the old RS thats in the mail and will be here Tuesday... Love a good barter deal
So now the exhaust system will be given a good lick'in when I get it to him and he was also eyeing off the carbies and wanted to get his blackened stained hands onto them for a polish?? hhhhmmmmm will wait n see about those!
btw do you see carbies polished?, what about just the tops of the carbies? never really noticed before and I certainly don't want the clot to looks like a blinged up pimps ride..
Eden from "Polish n Shine", the local metal polisher couldn't of waltzed thru my signshop doors yesterday at a better time if I'd planned it, he needed a few decals cut out for a car, so I showed him the pix of the old RS thats in the mail and will be here Tuesday... Love a good barter deal
So now the exhaust system will be given a good lick'in when I get it to him and he was also eyeing off the carbies and wanted to get his blackened stained hands onto them for a polish?? hhhhmmmmm will wait n see about those!
btw do you see carbies polished?, what about just the tops of the carbies? never really noticed before and I certainly don't want the clot to looks like a blinged up pimps ride..
Re: Got Me One
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 7:33 pm
Do Not Talk to Melville. Just kidding. He had lots of fun--or so it seemed--polishing bits and pieces of his bike. And, I've seen more carb tops polished than entire carbs, FWIW.
Re: Got Me One
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 7:46 pm
Hey!
Tops aren't too tough, and you were going to pull them to check the diaphragms, anyway.
The bit that took the longest was sanding off the casting flash and the raised "BING".
I did one bowl, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Tops aren't too tough, and you were going to pull them to check the diaphragms, anyway.
The bit that took the longest was sanding off the casting flash and the raised "BING".
I did one bowl, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Re: Got Me One
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 8:00 pm
Here's a quick link to the carb section Melville's long post restoring his bike.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=148&start=150
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=148&start=150
Re: Got Me One
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:47 am
A decent degrease and scrub with a toothbrush Grant and they'll come up ok.
Too much shine and they'll stick out like the proverbial dogs danglies.
Is the 78 a twin throttle cable from handlebar to carb, or does it use the splitter? If the splitter Grant, I have a couple of your throttle cables still.
Too much shine and they'll stick out like the proverbial dogs danglies.
Is the 78 a twin throttle cable from handlebar to carb, or does it use the splitter? If the splitter Grant, I have a couple of your throttle cables still.
Re: Got Me One
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 1:29 pm
Another option, clean them in a ultrasonic cleaner. They will come out looking like new castings.