Down in the workshop

Greetings 1925sidevalve fans. Our little Walt has been getting some attention down in the workshop. A mixture of Vintafaking and Engineering Excellence have been slowly melding together over the last couple of days, read on to find out the hows, whats and whys......
Somethings will never do ! Locking twistgrips ! Whatever next ! It's enough to have a chap thrown out of the vintage brotherhood........

Here's a couple of pics of Walt before work commenced..........

Now I just happen to have...............(because I imported a huge quantity of them from a special Walla I know in India) a pair of inverted levers. "Velly vintagey and velly reasonableey pricey"

Only problem....they are made to fit 1" bars, and Walter comes in at a reduced size of 7/8"
Hum, thinking cap on then old bean............and while you are thinking do something about the booming shine ! Bling-Bling-Bling..
Let the vintafake commence....didn't take too long with a bit of fine emery paper....The chrome was wafer thin and soon the soft shades of the base metal (brass) were shining through.


Before and after. Wonderful, even if I do say so myself.

Now first job on the engineering side was to start making a boss that would go inside the handlebar and also double as a mount for the lever. Had a lucky break in the fact that the external size of Walters handlebars were the same size as the original mounting flange. I planned on making a boss that went through the centre of the lever mount and fixed into the handlebars as original with a hidden screw.



Above, one boss and one cut lever mounting.

Further updates to follow shortly.....Keep visiting 1925sidevalver and be first with the news...
Alb over and out.