Thread: 2/3 Harley Davidson 1920 JS

If you are cleaning your shed Trev, I'm gonna clean mine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Keith_1

If you are cleaning your shed Trev, I'm gonna clean mine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've seen your shed in the photos of your builds.
It doesn't need cleaning!.
Were as mine makes a junkyard look pristine.

Originally Posted by Repliconics

I've seen your shed in the photos of your builds.
It doesn't need cleaning!.
Were as mine makes a junkyard look pristine.

It will be a lot cleaner by this time next week

Don't do it Trev you know the minute you clean it you will not find anything.

The engine is coming alone absolutley great.

Originally Posted by Dalboy

Don't do it Trev you know the minute you clean it you will not find anything.

The engine is coming alone absolutley great.

Now that is so true mate.
I'll be lost for a few days after the clean up.
But it wont take long for me to have all the things I've neatly put away laying around all over the place.
Makes the hole process a little pointless really when you think about!

Cheers mate
Trev.

Looking great

Enjoyed the catch up read. Ive been absent of late, heaps going on in my life atm

Oh they have a like bjtton again or it took me 20 years to find where they moved it to

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

Originally Posted by DaveTTC

Looking great

Enjoyed the catch up read. I've been absent of late, heaps going on in my life atm

Oh they have a like button again or it took me 20 years to find where they moved it to

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

I hope all the going on is only the good stuff in life mate.
I'm the same as you at the moment when it comes to finding things.
Every time I move something while cleaning up my workspace I find something I'd forgotten I had.
It's a bit like Christmas out there at the minute!.

Cheers mate
Trev.

I got the distributor painted and back in place today.
It looks a lot better this time round.





I'm having great fun reworking the engine there's so much detail I missed originally.
It's quite satisfying bringing the finish up more inline with the Indian.



I'll get the other sparkplug finished next, and I still need to repaint the coil.
Then I'll get started on the clutch cover.

Cheers
Trev.

Magnificent. You must have cleaned your workshop up quickly.

Beautiful Work clap:

Regards

Keith

I don't suppose anyone just happens to have half a dozen of these laying around by any chance.



It's an Electrical Shunt probably from the 1950's.
I found two of them at the recyclers the other day.
You maybe be wondering what the heck they could have to do with the Harley.



On the top of them each just happens to have two screws that for all money look just like the ones Harley used to secure the crankcase halves together.
The picture below shows a couple of them (marked by the arrows) in place on a real Harley.



When you put them on the 2/3 scale version it's honestly as close as you'd ever hope to get!.



It goes without saying that I could only fined the two Shunts.
I need another eight of the screws.
But at least I know their out there somewhere!



Or perhaps someone may know of a nut that looks similar.
Their fairly small only 8mm across.

I can always make the parts easily enough.
But I think a lot of the time it's the "Found" bits and pieces that really add to the story and colour of the bike!.

Cheers
Trev.

Looks great Trev.

How about some photos of your cleanup !!!

Regards

Keith

Geez those nuts look very familiar to me, but can't for the life of me remember where I have seen them. I found a similar item, longer in length but only 6mm dia. on a Cutler Hammer brand electrical contact block. Have a look at old industrial switchboards if you get the opportunity.
Another possibility is the nuts to hold the back panel on older computer cases, and it would be worthwhile taking a sample to a power tool repairer, this might be where I have seen them. I remember having to have the correct width screwdriver.
Ah! Just remembered, have a look at your kitchen tap. It is the nut that holds the handle on!

Don't blame me when your son goes to fill the kettle in the morning, and finds something missing!

Hope this helps,

Alan...

Originally Posted by Keith_1

Looks great Trev.

How about some photos of your cleanup !!!

Regards

Keith

I should have it all Shipshape and Bristol Fashion fairly soon.
I'm happy enough to show the after, but the before "Not So Much".

Originally Posted by Uncle Al

Ah! Just remembered, have a look at your kitchen tap. It is the nut that holds the handle on!

Don't blame me when your son goes to fill the kettle in the morning, and finds something missing!

Hope this helps,

Alan...

Thanks Alan I'll try the places you mentioned the tap would be a pearler.
But don't worry to much about Tayne his grown up with it.
Broom handles that mysteriously keep getting shorter, even curtain's that fall down because the rods have shrunk.
But I think the one that bugs him the most is when he goes to open a new packet of breakfast cereal and the back of the box has been cut out!.

Cheers
Trev.

I was working on the clutch cover yesterday when a friend turned up with some old headphones from way back when.
He thought I maybe able to use the wire from them on the engine.
He was dead right about that although their not the sort of thing I like to pull apart to much.



I took what was left of the lead from them but that's as far as it goes, there's a lot more wire I could use in them but their to good to trash.
So if anyone's looking to steampunk a computer there's a ripper set of headphones here for you!.

I used the wire I'd taken from the headphones to replace what was on the leads that run from the coil to the distributor.
When I first made the engine I seemed to have been happy just to use bits and pieces that looked about right.
Ten years on and thing have changed (Hopefully for the better).



I'm sure Uncle Al will spot what the part I used originally was straight away.
It's a sink cord from a off camera flash back in the eighties.
They did look every much like what was used on the engine, but with a little work I reckon they look a lot more like it now.



As you can see I still need to repaint the nickel on the edge of the end covers of the coil. but this time I'll give the black paint longer to dry.
The setup and appearance of the coil and generator has definitely improved from my original attempt at it.
But for now it's back to working on the clutch cover.

Cheers
Trev.