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Complete Restoration of a Black Shadow
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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 131119" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>There's no doubt an index would be useful, but producing one is a <em>lot</em> easier said than done, and especially if trying to produce it in parallel with doing the actual restoration. The 1928 Ariel restoration I have on another site is a reasonable model for what to expect with the Vincent since I had that bike down to the last nut and bolt when I rebuilt it. That restoration thread runs to 84 pages of 25 posts/page (2100 posts, of which probably three-quarters are mine), and there's no reason to expect a Vincent rebuild would be any shorter.</p><p></p><p>As a test, I just got 45 hits when I searched that Ariel thread for 'stellite'. I made my own pushrods as well as re-faced the rockers after I returned from the Cannonball so some of those hits could lead someone else to useful information. However, to know which of those hits would be useful to have in an Index, and which wouldn't be, would take quite a bit of effort. As an example of something <em>not</em> useful, in answer to a question I was asked I wrote that although I could use Stellite on the oil pump plunger, it wasn't necessary in this application. Again, that was 45 hits on what was a fairly specialized word in that long thread.</p><p></p><p>Related to this, I have no doubt my rebuild of that Ariel is the most thoroughly-documented rebuild of a 1928 Ariel "published" in at least the past two centuries, if not longer. So, some months ago I thought I might turn it into a "shop manual" in case there was one other person on earth possibly interested in the information. However, I only got as far as creating a document with my posts that's 109,713 words and 278 single-spaced pages. Unlike a book, my Ariel rebuild didn't proceed in a linear fashion (e.g. Birth of a Star, Life of a Star, Death of a Star, The End), and as a result reorganizing that document into something like an Ariel shop manual would take a lot more time than I would like to spend. And that's not counting the time it would take to index it when done.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, while I completely agree with you that a good index makes a publication more useful, I'm fairly certain I won't undertake to create one while I'm rebuilding my Vincent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 131119, member: 2806"] There's no doubt an index would be useful, but producing one is a [I]lot[/I] easier said than done, and especially if trying to produce it in parallel with doing the actual restoration. The 1928 Ariel restoration I have on another site is a reasonable model for what to expect with the Vincent since I had that bike down to the last nut and bolt when I rebuilt it. That restoration thread runs to 84 pages of 25 posts/page (2100 posts, of which probably three-quarters are mine), and there's no reason to expect a Vincent rebuild would be any shorter. As a test, I just got 45 hits when I searched that Ariel thread for 'stellite'. I made my own pushrods as well as re-faced the rockers after I returned from the Cannonball so some of those hits could lead someone else to useful information. However, to know which of those hits would be useful to have in an Index, and which wouldn't be, would take quite a bit of effort. As an example of something [I]not[/I] useful, in answer to a question I was asked I wrote that although I could use Stellite on the oil pump plunger, it wasn't necessary in this application. Again, that was 45 hits on what was a fairly specialized word in that long thread. Related to this, I have no doubt my rebuild of that Ariel is the most thoroughly-documented rebuild of a 1928 Ariel "published" in at least the past two centuries, if not longer. So, some months ago I thought I might turn it into a "shop manual" in case there was one other person on earth possibly interested in the information. However, I only got as far as creating a document with my posts that's 109,713 words and 278 single-spaced pages. Unlike a book, my Ariel rebuild didn't proceed in a linear fashion (e.g. Birth of a Star, Life of a Star, Death of a Star, The End), and as a result reorganizing that document into something like an Ariel shop manual would take a lot more time than I would like to spend. And that's not counting the time it would take to index it when done. Anyway, while I completely agree with you that a good index makes a publication more useful, I'm fairly certain I won't undertake to create one while I'm rebuilding my Vincent. [/QUOTE]
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