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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Complete Restoration of a Black Shadow
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<blockquote data-quote="Marcus Bowden" data-source="post: 127773" data-attributes="member: 3287"><p>Greg my handsome, Did you know S/S smells! The whole of my apprenticeship I spent a lot of time looking for s/s for making nuts, bolts, spring boxes, tool tray & lots of other things for my Vincent, as liv ing on the clifftops of the SW coast of cornwall and the salty sea air continuously around us s/s is the only thing I entertain on my bike. The gent in the main factory of HMD Devonport working on the universal milling machine next to the scrap bin where I use to pick out pieces of scrap and he would put it to his nose to smell then say if it was or wasn't stainless. Didn't know about it being antimagnetic then (well not all) then later on I would take my threaded thimbles and he would put hexagons on them and for a packet of fags a week would do a lot for me. My son has also learnt how to smell stainless!</p><p> My main ambition back then was to have more S/S on my bike than Eddy (stainless) Stevens.</p><p>Personally I love the stuff so long as one has the gear to machine it.</p><p>bananaman</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcus Bowden, post: 127773, member: 3287"] Greg my handsome, Did you know S/S smells! The whole of my apprenticeship I spent a lot of time looking for s/s for making nuts, bolts, spring boxes, tool tray & lots of other things for my Vincent, as liv ing on the clifftops of the SW coast of cornwall and the salty sea air continuously around us s/s is the only thing I entertain on my bike. The gent in the main factory of HMD Devonport working on the universal milling machine next to the scrap bin where I use to pick out pieces of scrap and he would put it to his nose to smell then say if it was or wasn't stainless. Didn't know about it being antimagnetic then (well not all) then later on I would take my threaded thimbles and he would put hexagons on them and for a packet of fags a week would do a lot for me. My son has also learnt how to smell stainless! My main ambition back then was to have more S/S on my bike than Eddy (stainless) Stevens. Personally I love the stuff so long as one has the gear to machine it. bananaman [/QUOTE]
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