Topic: Terry Bob's redneck F-ing K2 bitsa project!

[PeWe]

Sign on bathroom door might work Terry!  Tub service/ out of order, please use the shower in the garden.
Pipes need good handling. Wife does not need to know the details about bathroom, right?

[Terry in Australia]

Free is absolutely the way to go Terry Bob doncha know dude...
Who be the man from Italy then?  Akront?

Ha ha, nah, Borrani was Italian, Akront was Spanish, but they're gone now, neither company exists. These rims are Borrani replicas, and pretty good quality. I don't know where they're made, they're not stamped like my old Borrani rear rim that I cleaned up last weekend. Here's a link to their ebay items for sale.

https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/piricambi10/m.html?item=263088058109&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 

[Terry in Australia]

Sign on bathroom door might work Terry!  Tub service/ out of order, please use the shower in the garden.
Pipes need good handling. Wife does not need to know the details about bathroom, right?

Ha ha, yeah Pewe, if I told my wife everything I've done without her knowledge I'd be dead many times over!

[BobbyR]

Sign on bathroom door might work Terry!  Tub service/ out of order, please use the shower in the garden.
Pipes need good handling. Wife does not need to know the details about bathroom, right?

Ha ha, yeah Pewe, if I told my wife everything I've done without her knowledge I'd be dead many times over!

Taint no truer words be spoken!

[Terry in Australia]

Friday night here, and it couldn't come soon enough. Fark I hate working, it takes so much time out of a drinking mans week! Anyhoo, I consoled myself with a fine roadkill pie from the cafe outside the barracks for lunch, which was a nice change from rusty nails and razor wire washed down with wet concrete, to treat my apparent pissing and moaning issue. Yummm.......

Redneck Roadkill Pie by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

When I got home from my hard day at work trying to stay awake while wondering how my public servant workmates could possibly be less productive than I am, I decided to go and find a fancy cast iron brake disc I've carefully stored on the floor of my barn under my workbench for the last 10 years or so.

The reason I've looked after it so carefully is that I never thought I'd use it, which is a shame as it's a super light thin custom made rotor, but as I'd had no intention of building a fcuking F bike or any bike with a rear disc brake, I thought it would probably stay in it's resting place until I left my mortal coil.

Redneck racing disc by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

What I'd hoped, and what was proved when I did some comparing today, is that the custom disc rotor will mount straight onto the the front rotor's carrier. Even with the crap OEM CB750 front brake caliper, this disc rotor should improve braking performance over the slippery stainless steel OEM front disc, and reduce unsprung weight. Oops, sorry, forget that sciency crap, it'll just look cool, OK?

I should also be able to space the rotor away from the spokes a little further, hopefully allowing the use of a cool four piston caliper that I've carefully stored somewhere in my garage somewhere so safe that I couldn't find the poofter this arvo (Aussie redneck slang for afternoon) but hopefully will in the clear light of day tomorrow. I unbolted it from the rear hub and spun it on my filthy lathe to wire brush off the rust (usually I dump anything rusty into my phosphoric acid bath, but not cast iron, after I turned my 1060 cylinders into 1200 cylinders a few years ago..........) and it didn't come up too badly, but it'll need a bit more work before I'm happy with it. More tomorrow! Cheers, Terry.      

[PeWe]

You can impregnate the rotor with fresh cow dung and corn leaves so it will look correctly for a bike with history from a village were bothers and sisters are grandma's, grandpa's, fathers and mothers in law at the same time. The common question, am i your brother or is it father, what the f...last weekend I was you husband.... ;-)

[MoMo]

Lookee her TB, ifin I were you I'd a gitten me a shotgun and blasted holes in dat dere disk, much cheeper

[RAFster122s]

PeWe, it already has been doused many a time with cat p_ss as you can tell from the state of the rust.   He took very good care of it packing it in cosmolene, wait he didn't do dat...

Or, was that TB's doing instead of the innocent cat after a few too many thrown back while at the workbench?

[MoMo]

PeWe, it already has been doused many a time with cat p_ss as you can tell from the state of the rust.   He took very good care of it packing it in cosmolene, wait he didn't do dat...

Or, was that TB's doing instead of the innocent cat after a few too many thrown back while at the workbench?

Maybe he was doing his Burt Munro imitation--pissing on the disc under the lemon tree

[Terry in Australia]

Ha ha, nah, I didn't need to piss on it men, just many winters in my steel garage were enough to give it a healthy protective coating of oxidization, most of which I inhaled in airborne dust form when I cleaned it off on my lathe.

Anyway, I'm sitting here in my rumpus room watching the rain coming in sideways with a healthy amount of hailstones bouncing off the roof of my new(ish) car, which tells me that I won't be doing much apart from watching the Mayweather/McGregor fiasco later this afternoon. Yesterday, I had "limited success" with the build due to not being able to find various bits and pieces, so at the end of the day all I had done was half an exhaust system installed. Oh well.

What was good though, was how nicely the pipes came up after I pulled them out of the acid bath and rinsed them. To refresh your respective memories, here are the "Before" pics:

Redneck rusty exhaust by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Redneck Rust Removal by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

So you can understand why I'm so happy with the "After" pic:   

Redneck de-rusted pipes by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr 

All the rust has gone, and they look (almost) as good as new. Sadly the one header I had to cut I'd somehow cut 2 inches too short, so I had to fcuk around and add 2 inches back on to it, none of which will be seen unless you crawl under the bike, but it still pissed me off. If I can live with these pipes (and looking at them on the bike I can see why I never used them, they're pretty fugly) I'll replace that header with an unmolested one.

Anyway, that's it, if the weather picks up between now and next weekend I might have to do some "electrickery", and maybe install some carbs. I bought Kyle's (Chewbacca) Dyna III ignition and he's already sent it off, so won't be long before I call "Fire in the hole!".........    

[MoMo]

Dem pipes came out gud TB...LBB

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

Those pipes came out nice. 

You mentioned an acid bath. What did you use and did you do anything to them after rinsing them?

[Terry in Australia]

Thanks Larry Bob, even though I've been using phosphoric acid for years to clean rust off parts, I'm always surprised how something that looks so bad can be made to look so good with virtually no effort, 'cept for dunking parts in it and waiting. I tried dunking my missus in there, but she kept on getting out, so no improvement there, sadly...........

[Terry in Australia]

Those pipes came out nice. 

You mentioned an acid bath. What did you use and did you do anything to them after rinsing them?

G'Day Don, I buy a gallon of Milestone (Aussie brand) "Phos Wash" for use in cleaning stainless steel dairy equipment, and water it down around 1:10 with water. It's brilliant for cleaning steel and chrome, don't use it on cast iron, zinc, "Pot metal" etc,
I recently melted a CB750 fuel cap, all that was left was the chrome plating and the hinge pin.

I wear heavy rubber gloves even though this stuff is pretty safe, and yesterday I used a worn out nylon pot scrubber just to shift any really thick loose deposits before rinsing the pipes in clean water.

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

It sure worked like a charm on the pipes.

[Terry in Australia]

Yep, they're fugly, but they're shiny........

[MoMo]

Yep, they're fugly, but they're shiny........

Kind of like my 82 Seca(aka The FuglyOne)

[Terry in Australia]

Ha ha, geez I don't know if I'd go that far Larry Bob, that Yam looks like it fell out of a C130 and landed in the Fugly Tree! (and hit every branch on the way down)

[MoMo]

Ha ha, geez I don't know if I'd go that far Larry Bob, that Yam looks like it fell out of a C130 and landed in the Fugly Tree! (and hit every branch on the way down)

It would have been better off for posterity's sake if that is what happened....LBB

[Terry in Australia]

While we're copping the tail end of winter's wrath there's no bike building going on, so I've been looking for other stuff to occupy my time. It was Fathers Day here on Sunday, and my youngest boy gave me a Bunnings (big box hardware store) gift card for 100 beans, so I decided that I'd use it to commit an act of cleanliness.

Over the years I've amassed a small mountain of auto electrical tools and hardware, and I've stashed it in various containers, which has lead to me losing stuff, doubling up on tools and hardware, and spending too much of my free time looking for stuff, so I decided to use some of that scratch to buy a purpose built toolbox to stash all that stuff in.

I was surprised how much stuff I was able to shove in there, and all going well, I won't have to fart around looking for stuff in the future.

Redneck Electrikery tools 1 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Redneck Electrikery tools by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

[PeWe]

You can mount that as a top box on your bike? To fix it when needed.
I mean all bikes you have EXCEPT the CB750 with points and a good tasty oil.

[Terry in Australia]

Ha ha, no points for me Pewe, I bought a sweet used Dyna III and Dyna 3 Ohm coils etc from Kyle (Chewbacca here) so it'll be throwing a spark brighter than an arc welder, for some free horsepower! Cheers, Terry Bob.

[MCRider]

While we're copping the tail end of winter's wrath there's no bike building going on, so I've been looking for other stuff to occupy my time. It was Fathers Day here on Sunday, and my youngest boy gave me a Bunnings (big box hardware store) gift card for 100 beans, so I decided that I'd use it to commit an act of cleanliness.

Over the years I've amassed a small mountain of auto electrical tools and hardware, and I've stashed it in various containers, which has lead to me losing stuff, doubling up on tools and hardware, and spending too much of my free time looking for stuff, so I decided to use some of that scratch to buy a purpose built toolbox to stash all that stuff in.

I was surprised how much stuff I was able to shove in there, and all going well, I won't have to fart around looking for stuff in the future.
SNIP

Figured I better step in and say something or you'll finish b4 I get the chance.

I've got some small stacking tool chest, antiques from Craftsman 30 years ago or more. Several drawers have become catch alls, mostly for electrical paraphernalia. I think you've hit on something to free up some drawers for real tools, and unifying the electrical stuff in one place. And a reason to go to Lowe's.   

[Terry in Australia]

Thanks Ron, and the good thing is that I know there is more auto electrical stuff hiding in my garage, so as I find it I'll chuck it in my "Sparkies Toolbox", I only wish I'd done it years ago! Cheers, Terry.

[Tintop]

Thanks Ron, and the good thing is that I know there is more auto electrical stuff hiding in my garage, so as I find it I'll chuck it in my "Sparkies Toolbox", I only wish I'd done it years ago! Cheers, Terry.

I've always used the large bottom drawer in my tool chest.  Everything sorted into plastic containers.  Bit ahead of you Terry, and having that drawer kept the sidecar racing more than once.