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Black Spanner: Parts all ready for assembly
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The building of a Trike. and for an interlude, A Vespa. Friday, February 01, 2013. Parts all ready for assembly. There was no way I was going to get this done in my pokey little garage so we hired a van, threw all my trike bits in, and Hughs bike too, and took it down to Jos workshop. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A few of my favourite photos. Saw, Bend, Grind, Weld. Weve got this far before. Parts all ready for assembly. Rebuilding of a Vintage Manurhin scooter. Riding 2 Vespas to Italy.
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Black Spanner: We've got this far before...
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The building of a Trike. and for an interlude, A Vespa. Friday, February 01, 2013. We've got this far before. But this time its so much more pleasurable. This time Im working on a proper work bench with lots of space. Lining up and fixing down still took a good couple of hours. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A few of my favourite photos. Saw, Bend, Grind, Weld. Weve got this far before. Parts all ready for assembly. Rebuilding of a Vintage Manurhin scooter. Riding 2 Vespas to Italy.
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Black Spanner: Distributor drive shaft alignment
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The building of a Trike. and for an interlude, A Vespa. Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Distributor drive shaft alignment. Reliant, Rialto, 850cc, Distributor, Distributer, Driveshaft, Positioning. I put these tags in above to help someone one day find this post in an internet search, and benefit from my learning process, and not have to learn the hard way. as I did. But I thought it through and made my interpretation of it. I reassembled it all again - tried to start her. Still, No joy :-(. And i rather like it).
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Black Spanner: First bend
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The building of a Trike. and for an interlude, A Vespa. Sunday, February 10, 2013. 3 men for 3 days equals a lot of manpower, thinking capacity, labour and enthusiasm (even more so when you add a good contribution from TVOR who popped in on a couple of days for moral support and sensible suggestions). I've heard of a technique for bending tube using sand. I've never done it myself, but I've heard about it. I've got some sand - we could try it! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Saw, Bend, Grind, Weld.
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Black Spanner: wheels
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The building of a Trike. and for an interlude, A Vespa. Tuesday, January 04, 2011. Scooter on wooden blocks. Tyres, and tubes removed. Rims now ready for shot blasting and powder coating. I was quite surprised - though I shouldnt have been, judging by the state of the rest of the bike. Im guessing that they are salvageable. Yes, I can see that the wheels will benefit from a paint job. Its not good spoiling the ship for a bit of tar. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Riding 2 Vespas to Italy.
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Black Spanner: A slightly new direction
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The building of a Trike. and for an interlude, A Vespa. Saturday, February 19, 2011. A slightly new direction. So the rebuild is complete, the test runs are successful, and the story comes to an end. well, not quite! But now that the Vespa is pretty well complete I'm not sure that its story should continue here. The story about the Vespa now is not so much about its revival, but more about its travels - and so a new blog is born. www.2vespas2italy.blogspot.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Black Spanner: Fish Mouths
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The building of a Trike. and for an interlude, A Vespa. Sunday, February 10, 2013. One of the things that i had been steeling myself for (over the past 6 years! Was the tremendous effort I was going to have to make in creating the tube joints and interfaces. With limited facilities at home I was preparing myself for cutting and filing each tube joint by hand. Actually, I find great pleasure in using hand tools, and I'm not bad at it either. but man, its a slow job. With a table saw and a hand grinder we ...
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Black Spanner: Saw, Bend, Grind, Weld
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The building of a Trike. and for an interlude, A Vespa. Sunday, February 10, 2013. Saw, Bend, Grind, Weld. The whole process was much slower than I had expected. After we had worked out and perfected our bending and fishmouth techniques, I was hoping it was going to be a simple case of "just do it! But it turned out that every step of the way was just as tricky as the step before. We seemed to keep kidding ourselves that "once we've done this bit, it'll be easy! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Black Spanner: Controls
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The building of a Trike. and for an interlude, A Vespa. Monday, October 14, 2013. How many times have I said "I'm back! I seem to limp on with this project with little spurts of energy and enthusiasm every 6 months or so, and each time I do manage to get a bit of work done on the trike, I announce that "this is it! For this very reason, I've not mentioned anything about progress for a few weeks - just to see if its just another flash-in-the-pan of energy. I desperately want to keep this machine as bare a...
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Black Spanner: My first Epic Journey
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The building of a Trike. and for an interlude, A Vespa. Thursday, February 10, 2011. My first Epic Journey. Unfortunately I didnt make a print of the google map route, and so once past Warwick and into farming country, villages and lanes I quickly became lost. I had to stop on numerous occasions to check on my phone which villages I should be aiming for. And when I couldnt get a GPS signal, I had to resort to the inbuilt compass on my phone and simply head south. Surely thats not such a big deal is it?
