A couple of shots of the seat.

State of play report

After a bit of a bollocking from Bill and all the work he's putting in, thought it was best to give a bit of an update. Barry knocked up the battery tray that sits nicely in behind the gear box. Bolted through the engine plates by the rear frame bolts, it is stopped pivoting by a pin through the centre stand pivot hole.

The current state of play. The seat has come out a treat, apologies for not posting this when it first came back a few weeks ago. A new, well new to me, upholsterer about 5 miles away, great job and only took about three weeks. Probably going to run the rear muddie in a similar fashion, but may well get another guard.

Oil / Lekky tank

Decided to use the ally tank for the electrics to go in,pain in the ass stainless.So i have the main body now i need a lid.Chunk of ally in the mill and away we go

Machined a step all the way around to sit in the body,i will recess this for the ignition switch.

And there you go a perfect fit,not sure what to do on the other end,weld a plate in or anther cap,shall have to see what the access is like

Bill

Big hole in tank

out with the grinder and cut a bloody big hole in the tank

then out with the tin snips to start filling it in

there we go just need to fine tune the shape ready to weld

nice

when you look at the side of the tank it should look like the original seam

Bill

Head scratch

Not done much today just made a new front wheel spacer out of S/S to replace the steel one.I will be doing most of the hard to get to bits in stainless helps with the cleaning.Had a bit play with the pipe bender to get the curves right then a good hour working out the new tube positions and made a couple of brace tubes ready to go in the jig for welding

Looking Wheely Good

The rear wheel mounted on a bar in the vice ready to rub down for paint,what a sod of job it is to do each spoke.Going to etch prime it then fit the tyre and new tube before i put the top coat on.This way any damage fitting the tyre can be sorted before the top coat goes on

One etch primed wheel ready for rubber

The other Tanktastic prob

Tried to get a petrol tap at Scorton for the Yamaha tank i will use on the Bullet,all i could see were on/off with no reserve.Looks like i will have to graft the Bullet tap onto the tank....



machine the Yam fitting





flip over and machine Bullet fitting and tap1/4 BSP



there we go all fits together







looks like it should live there







underside view,just needs dressing the welds flush

Next job will to find a petrol cap and weld in filler,seen one for a Harley only £11 the pair,should keep this a Budget Bobber Bullet

Tanktastic

Not sure what to use for the oil/electric tank,round s/s or the square alloy.Both easy to mount and machine,i just need something to stuff all those horrible wires in.
I will de makeing one of each for when i am up to that stage and offer each one up.

Bill

Shop till i drop

Scorton autojumble on Saturday,i saved over £50 on this lot and that's from EBAY prices....bargain

So Close....

While at Rufforth Autojumble today spotted this,a pik and a phone call to a certain Mr Qmaster nearly had him reaching for his wallet.......