E: Engine Comet for the 2020's

[vibrac]

What if he was like me and wanted to hide the fitting screws and top bit !!. Cheers Bill.

You are right Bill, "hide the screws" it does seem like a fifties thing You dont see many mounted club badges anymore especially on bikes there is a rump car lot that still have a badge bar but on bikes like handlebar fairings they have mostly all gone without a trace.... ..

 

[bmetcalf]

How did the holes get drilled straight in? Seems like not enough room for a drill motor there; maybe a right-angle drive?

 

[vibrac]

Well I have had that RFM since the dawn of time (part of my £15 purchase) so I guess before me it must have been.........

Happy days

 

[david bowen]

You may laugh, but Cyril Fox, the guy that crated the Vincent's in the factory for export had a drill just like that !

 

[Alan J]

You may laugh, but Cyril Fox, the guy that crated the Vincent's in the factory for export had a drill just like that !

Known as " a brace and bit!" In my part of the world!

 

[david bowen]

Correct, Cyril,was a very short guy he use to push the brace against the box with his chest the drill pieces was flat and a little tit on the end for starter.

 

[Chris Launders]

Well I've still got one anyway.

 

[vibrac]

Actually when I started racing a Vincent all I had was one of these and with it I drilled lots of holes in two steel front brake plates and added an aluminium air scoop to each side it was a few years before Roger Slater made some aluminum lightning copies or I could afford my first electric hand drill (or brave enough to sneak 'homers' out of the apprentice shop)

 

[david bowen]

Speaking of homers a friend of my late father use to work at DH at Hatfield during the war, they use to make cigarette lighters out of the scrap windscreen material

 

[Michael Vane-Hunt]

I I use mine all the time.