Two posts in one day..

Well, I tried getting the engine going - spinning it over with an electric drill gave me a shock from ht lead but nothing through the plug. Cleaned points and got weak spark from plug but no pops or bangs so have decided it's going to be rebuilt

I've taken the barrel off and as you can see, there's quite a carbon build-up

So I'm going to treat it to new piston and barrel and gaskets etc and decode the crankcase.

Just the engine

and the front mudguard to sort out now

And some pedals (on order) and decompressor (in the car iirc) 😅

Update

Just a quick pic so you can see a bit of progress.

Hopefully most of the rest will be put on by next weekend.

Waiting, waiting...

sorry, absolutely nothing to report atm as I am waiting for the nickel/zinc plating to come back from the platers which should be mid to late this week.

I was hoping for last Friday but they were having "issues". Not complainin as it means they'll be doing a nice job as always (we use them for plating artworks too).

Anyway, may be an update of two next week.

Some pics etc

Ok, thought it was time to put up some more pics as "a picture speaks a thousand words" means I'll have to type less :D

Here's a pic of the brake levers - one has had a bit of sanding and polishing; the other is how it came off the bike.

 


The following are pics of before and once I'd stared cleaning the bars up .....

Quite a bit more work to do, but they look promising, but hopefully off to polishing this week.

 One of the wheels...

 During rebuilding...

  And back on bike, with new tube and tyre...

 Here's a few bits from the headset - just cleaned up with rotary wire brush in a drill and re-used

The other wheel is in the shop for trueing - have a load of stuff to get to platers this week then proper reassembly starts next weekend.... 

Till then!

Front wheel...

has now been rebuilt by me, and trued by Evernden's and temporarily fitted to bike. The rear has been dismantled and I've cleaned the hub and started respoking which I'll finish tomorrow (well, tonight!) but can't refit the axle assembly because the outer bearing race is damaged and will need replacing. Hopefully I can get one on Monday when I drop wheel in to be trued:)

I'm sending away the seat frame, seat post and all the seat bracketry along with pedal cranks brake assemblies and handlebars to be nickel plated or re-chromed this coming week. Hoping for a quick turnaround (like same day as we're having some work from work(!) done at same time) which will move rebuild on quite a leap.

I have a few more pics which I'll try and post over next few days. Bit pressured on time atm.

Anyway, got to have early night as going for a bike ride tomorrow :D