More nuts, bolts and screws are cleaned, machined and sanded in preparation for cad plating. A boring job but will look nice when installed. These are British fasteners with an assortment of varied thread pitches from 19tpi to 26tpi. :? Once plated all the threads will need to be chased so everythin...

More oil lines that lubricate the rockers. They are in bad shape so next step will be replacing the copper tubing between the brass fittings. It will be a bit tricky as it appears to be silver brazed so the old copper may have to be drilled out of the fittings. Not looking forward to that. May have ...

Not much happening on the project right now. I did repair the magneto cover which had been improperly repaired before. IMG_6574.JPG IMG_6570.JPG Here I'm fitting the feed and return oil pipes. Normally they don't fit this close to the covers but with a bit of metal removal they will fit snugly. IMG_...

That looks like it's going to be a blast to ride.

For a one time use try Ebay, about 20 bucks.

If you get a 2mm broach I think we can make the tapered bushing for it.

Making a woodruff keyway in a tapered bore could be done manually but kinda slow. A standard woodruff broach would require a custom bushing that fit the tapered bore. Most machine shops have standard broaches. The trick would be getting the tapered bushing slotted to the correct depth so the broach ...

I made a couple of mistakes but the dimensions are correct so will live with it. This old rotary table has seen better days and was difficult hitting the 60º marks.

Got around to making a spanner for the caps. The original K1 spanner that came in the tool kit was about 1.664" hex. To clean up all the wrench marks they are now 1.625" hex. The new spanner is 7075 t6 aluminum so will be strong enough. I will make an open end version while I'm at it. K1 s...