Sweet! wish I had a milling machine but I do have access to one. All I have is a little mig welder you see in the pictures and a old Lincoln buzz box. I all so have all the laps for line lapping case races, the set up to balance flywheels, all the reamers for line reaming the cam bushings and draws full of Jim s tools. I had a shop for 13 years but being I could not find good reliable help and was a single parent of 3 girls I got tired of working 7 days a week 14 hours a day or more. In 13 years I always had at least one motor I was building and as many as 14 at a time.
Until the twin cam I can rebuild the rods, balance the flywheels, assemble and true flywheels, line lap and so on. The of coarse bore cylinders and redo heads. As you can tell I am set up mostly for motor work.
46u - 4/30/2010 10:34 AM
Sweet! wish I had a milling machine but I do have access to one. All I have is a little mig welder you see in the pictures and a old Lincoln buzz box. I all so have all the laps for line lapping case races, the set up to balance flywheels, all the reamers for line reaming the cam bushings and draws full of Jim s tools. I had a shop for 13 years but being I could not find good reliable help and was a single parent of 3 girls I got tired of working 7 days a week 14 hours a day or more. In 13 years I always had at least one motor I was building and as many as 14 at a time.
Until the twin cam I can rebuild the rods, balance the flywheels, assemble and true flywheels, line lap and so on. The of coarse bore cylinders and redo heads. As you can tell I am set up mostly for motor work.
I used to do most everything on my 1982 Shovelhead when I owned it for 15 years. I sold it a couple of years ago and haven't done anything much to my 2004 Ultra.
It's nice to have those tools that you and I have. I always wanted to have another vintage Harley but I fear that time has pretty much run out as I'd probably have to mortgage my house to get another one nowadays. You have some nice tools there, for sure.
I love to work on fabrication and do small jobs now and then. I wanted a big mill for 20 years and my friend, who is a profesional CNC machinist found that one for me in a warehouse in Carson City Nevada. Here's a picture of what it looked like when we picked it up there in April, 2009..
I just sold a 1935 VLD project bike which part went to get my sidecar and still have a shovel head hot rod I was building. If I ever finish it according to the numbers it should should have 150 plus HP at 102 cubic inches. Has all the trick stuff PM spun aluminum wheels, PM brakes and master cylinders, GMA aluminum trees, Merk case, Axtell cylinders, STD bath tub shape heads and a WHOLE lot more. If I could get 2/3 what I have in it I would sell it. I all so have a 1971 Triumph T 100C I was restoring. These days if I get spare time I want to jump on my 02 Ultra and go.
Spent most of today working on my friends 1988 FLHS with over 200K on it which he runs a BIG Watsonian Cambridge on it. Been doing most of the work on it since he bought it new. He is getting ready to make the Alaska trip for his third time. This will be his second on this bike. He is the one I rode with in 2005 when I did my Alaska trip. Here is a web site he did about it.
http://bigjames.gotdns.org:8000/alaska_trip/
Till I got laid off a year ago I was doing fabrication and welding. Been out of a steady job since. The older you get the harder it gets to find a job and the economy does not help.
isnt that the truth.. i get offers until they see me - too many grey hairs....
*sigh*
i have a tree mill and zubal 14 x 48 lathe - and all the stuff that goes with them - i do steam engine fabrication as a sort of side job and hobby.. lately with the economy such as it is and construction so really poor im spending more and more time fabricating.
the other comment that really fits with this thread....
back when everybody had a shovel - i got paid all the time to fix this or fix that - i didnt do engines, but everything else, swing arm bushings, fork bushings, clutch work, trans, etc etc... paid pretty well and there was always somebody begging to get his bike fixed.
the new ones just run - not much fixing to do - i LOVE it but i never get paid to fix anything any more.
*sigh*
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timo482 - 4/30/2010 8:23 PM
isnt that the truth.. i get offers until they see me - too many grey hairs....
*sigh*
i have a tree mill and zubal 14 x 48 lathe - and all the stuff that goes with them - i do steam engine fabrication as a sort of side job and hobby.. lately with the economy such as it is and construction so really poor im spending more and more time fabricating.
What type of steam engines? I collect live toy steam engines from the late 1800 to present and use to have about 175 but sold some and only have about 125. Most of them I have fired on steam. I all so have many of toys and machines they drive.
i built a 1.5" scale 4.75" gauge k36 for myself
im doing a large rebuild and conversion to natural gas to a 1.5" scale 7.5" pacific at the moment
have done quite a number of other bits over the years
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