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Braking. The rear brake controls had seen better days, not rusted, but not looking very tired, so, I fabricated/machined some stainles and aluminium goodies to spruce it up a bit. Yamahas brake anchor and clevis left me totally underwhelmed, so I fabricated an anchor from 10mm aluminium and...

Mine gets messy when I'm working on something, particulary the lathe or mill. But when I'm finished I clean up, replacing tools and so on. The wife comes out and clears the lathe, but wont touch or clean it. She puts away my tools and sweeps the floor, seperating nuts, bolts and tools from...

I made this adapater for an Ozito rotary tool for sharpening end milld. It works quite well

The original tail light on the TX, like all Jap bike tail lights was massive and just didn't fit in with my build criteria so I decided to make one. I tried bending up a tail light at first but couldn't get the side tabs to mount the light on level, so I welded one up from a number of parts I...

left and right turning, just put the bit in whichever side you want to use.

Some buid pics: measuring Ackerman, chain guide, tank steering, etc. Thi time around, I threaded all the steering links with left and right hand threads, made adjustment so much easier.

This is how you spell aluminium. Would I lie to you?

Singe point conversion. I grew up in the 60s riding Brit twins, hated setting the points, a real PITA, So when it came to the TX I had two choices, make a hall effect trigger for the ignition system from parts I had in my electronics collection, or, convert the bike to a single set of points. I...

Ever heard of a grinder?

If I'm not mistaken, that combo machine is the same as one a friend of mine purchased in Malaysia when I was stationed there in the mid 90s. Flat bed, very high tailstock, aound 300mm swing over bed. At the time they were selling for around $1600 Aust, that's around $1200 US at today's...