A good friend need a place to keep his lift and I all ready had one so now I do not have to be on the floor working on my rig. LOL Getting way to old to work on the floor.
Jeff congratulation for a new luxury tool in the shop.
Each time I get to a point like you now I blame myself: "Why didn't I make that earlier?...."
Less back ake, a good thing!
Sven 😉
PS: I got for my son an anvil for Christmas....For sure he will blame me that I hid it "meanwhile" and didn't give any present to the family while my mother in law was in hospital.
Tomorrow I will finish the new bathroom installation. I just finished the final automation tests...electrical system is running fine.
Anyhow => most important my Mother in law is ok again and doesn't need the feared wheel chair.
Lets hope she will stay in such a good shape. 🙂
Sven I hope she does well. I had to pull the outer and inner primary to replace a transmission seal damn thing only lasted 96,000 miles. To keep the oil from the transmission from running out I was able to lower the lift with the hack on a notch and did not loose much oil. LOL The lift my bike is sitting on I have had for over 30 years and it sure looks like it but still works as good as when it was new.
I like the double lifts. I've always had to make do with one small atv lift and a come along hanging from a rafter.
Mima is doing excellent and nobody can believe that on 12.12. she couldn't even lift her hand nor breathe of her own.
She adopted my aunt Hannelore's recipe and tells herself every 15 minutes:" I want to live! I want to live! I want to live!"
Sadly Lola Larsson the mother and grandmother of the local racer's and motorcycle family Lena, Juergen Larson and the Pazos's kids.... passed by over the holidays, so I will try to pull her old Swedish widdower into the rig as soon I get it out of customs for to bring him on new ideas.
Old Swede - Gammel Swensk, Jan is one of the good fellows who make life living worth.
So the new year recieves me with one laughing and one wheeping eye.
Their Daughter Lena is with an age of over 50 years still active competing and won several Enduro centralamerican championships over the last years...
another example to follow.
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My father used to say. "Better small but fine and mine"
No banks involed in the shop and better get few good quality tools then lots of scrap.
My own machinery is european from 1961 to 74 and I wouldn't change against modern equivilants.
I'd love to have CNC, but european from the same brands again...impossible to pay.
So I stay with what I have.
Jeff, the recipe, "I want to live!" works.
🙂
46u, that is a great set up. I plan to get one of those lifts for the same reason, getting a little too old to get down on the floor. Dont have the room to set up two of them but will try to figure a way to do it.
I have a lot more in my hand tools and specialty tools then I do my rig and bought the bike new. This is not even including my machines. My boring bar was made in the 50s. It is slow but makes a great cut. Then I have a horizontal Sunnen honing machine, lath, valve grinder, seat grinder, of coarse things like drill press and grinder. Then in dial bore gauges I bought many years ago back then was over $5,000 and now would cost me all most twice that to replace.
I use to have a shop many years ago and always had at least one motor to build and as many as 14 at once. I always keep one or two motors around I am building but do to my heath I can only work when able.
I am getting ready to do the Harley twin cam press cranks. Below is a picture of a press a good friend and I made. Have had a truing stand for years. Have not problem on the earlier HDs rebuilding the rods, balancing the flywheels, assembling and truing the cranks. I have been all so building the smaller single cylinder cranks for many different brands.
I have a good friend that has been collecting Aermacchi HD bikes and parts for at least 30 years, which he is getting ready to retire so we are going to start restoring them and others. One of his 3 buildings is 40x80 feet full of parts and one of his smaller buildings is full of NOS parts. I will be building HD Sprint, HD hummer and Harley Topper scooter cranks shortly. Half of the 40x80 is a museum of his bikes. Will post pictures sometime is any one is interested.
I have not only rode and worked on motorcycles but have lived them since I was 14. LOL
The flywheel press for twin cams we made
Twin cam fly wheel holding jig we made.
My old press we made about 30 years ago.
By all means post the pictures!!!
As I see, its time for me to get one of those tiny universal hydraulic sets...
I get water in my mouth...
Nice set up, makes working in the winter a real joy.
newenglandjim - 1/5/2014 10:15 PM
Nice set up, makes working in the winter a real joy.
Yes it does but being she is my only transportation her and I do a lot of cool rainy riding but it does not bother me as I have a Gore-Tex rain suit. Thursday I have a doctors appointment at 7AM and her and I will be right in the cool weather. If the weather report stays the same it should not be bellow 16F LOL
I better do not tell our temperatures as summer is threatening to strike with a draught.
Between Christmas and yesterday I passed in between a tin roof and the ceiling pretty regular...
and no beer in sight as some of the brothers in law have serious trouble with ethanol...
Sven
Jealous!!!! Nice set up, 46u!
Here is a few of my machines. If things do not change I might have to sell them.
a few years back and i went through bankruptcy - the judge flatly said - "keep your tools"
kept my house, my bike, my tools
selling your tools is a one way street - make a deal of some sort to keep them till you really cannot work.
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