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I intend on anodising a few aluminium parts I made, so decided to make an anodising bath. I already had a power supply and a 10 litre plastic tub. So I bought some acid, made up a couple of cathodes and stuck it all together then dunked a test piece in to test. Results were excellent, so I...

The 74 TX650 came with a twin cable throttle, one cable for each carb. Adjustment for syncing the carbs was via an inline cable adjuster, damn silly idea and damn fiddly. To improve things a little, I bought a single cable throttle and looked around for a cable splitter. Couldn't find one that...

Remote spin on filter and cooler. This took a lot of work, I had to modify the right side engine cover, machine up a new cover for the now gone strainer, machine a spin on filter mount, fabricate some new engine mounts to hold the mount, fabricate a mount for the cooler, machine up a few...

I bought some stainless, front wheel spokes from a well known XS650 parts supplier in Australia. When I laced up the wheel, centred it and trued it, I found there was about 3mm of thread visible after the ****** between ****** and hub, damn ugly. I removed a couple of spokes and compared them...

Most bikes come with a permanent magnet alternator, so, right from idle the output is at it's max. For some reason, Yamaha decided on an electro magnet alternator for the XS650, so, very little output at low revs, the output increasing as revs increase. So if you continually start, stop the...

I've synced plenty of Japanese multis with vacuum gauges and a few twins, manually or with with looped, clear plastic tubes, both left me unimpressed, so I put together what I think is a better mousetrap. Made from scraps which abound in my workshop, it cost me nothing. Two short lengths of...

Single points conversion. I've converted the twin points system to a single points system. To do this I manufactured a dual ramp cam and a single points backing plate with a lube bushing. I drilled the points bucket at top to route the cable to the coil under the tank, bought a dual outlet...

I bought this bike just over two years ago. It was in terrible condition: Not going, missing a few bits, very little compression, badly oxidised, damaged and rusted out. I have had some fingers fused, other have replacement joints due to RA, So, my hands don't work very well anymore and...

This is the coolant system I've built into my lathe stand. It consists of a 10 litre plastic jerry can, a $25 centrifugal pump off ebay, a couple of flexible nozzles and a heap of retic pipe and fittings. It's been running for eight years now with no problems. The coolant container was...

This is my lathe, a 280 x 700 Impala (Optimum Maschinen). The stand I threw away and made my own with built in bed levelling. The stand is made from 50mm heavy wall tubing I had lying around, some new RHS, some 50mm x 8mm flat and some 65mm x 8mm angle I also bought. Made in two sections, the...

I made this drill sharpening jig a few years ago, sharpens drills from around 3mm to 13mm. I usually only sharpen by hand/eye, very rarely use this jig, but it is good for precision sharpening if you want an accurate sized hole. Point angle is 118degrees and indexing is by eye. Drill is...

I decided to mount some drag bars on risers for the bike build. Couldn't find any I liked so made my own. Whilst I did have a mill when I made these, I didn't have an MT3 arbour on which to mount a slit saw, so, I used a straight arbor in the lathe chuck, once again all made on the lathe...

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I made this ball turner for my lathe a few years ago during a fit of boredom. I wanted one that mounted to the tool post, worked vertically and could be used either in front of or behind the tool post. I mostly use it from behind as it gives you a better view of the job. When I say 'mostly'...

Originally I wasn't going to put air filters on the bike, but changed my mind and decided to go for pods. Unfortunately, they interfered with the side covers, so, I put my thinking cap on and came up with a plan.. So, plan in head, I welded together an aluminium battery carrier, welding some...

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