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What is the best approach for restoring a Vincent?
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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 36804" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>I'm a bit better prepared than that. When I got my Vincent I knew it would be at least a year before I could start actual work on it (little did I know then I would be off by a factor of 20 on my start time...), so I began to assemble my own shop manual. That manual has dividers separating the sections (which are based on content of the chapters of Richardson and KTB). From that time until now whenever something relevant about, say, the timing chest was printed in MPH -- or in any other book or back issue of a magazine -- I copied it and added it to the manual. The idea being, when it was time to work on the timing chest, I would go through everything in that section to see what advice (and contradictory advice) was there to help me decide what to do, and what not to do. This manual fills to bursting four 3"-thick 3-ring binders (i.e. it is a full 12" thick). I won't claim it's the most extensive or complete Vincent shop manual in existence, but... Unfortunately, having let my VOC membership lapse, I'm missing MPH from 2001 to present, so I will be on the lookout for those back issues.</p><p></p><p> I don't know anyone who isn't space challenged. Even if I had a shop that was 10,000 sq.ft. (which I certainly don't), I'm sure it would be too small. Because of lathe, mill, functioning motorcycles, etc., I only have enough space to work on one motorcycle. However, I have three motorcycles (including the Vincent) on home made 2x6 ft. rolling work stands that I pull into the "restoration area" when I'm working on them, and then push back into more compact side-by-side space when not. </p><p></p><p> Count on it.</p><p></p><p> OK, a dirty little secret I hadn't revealed until now is that I want to "modularize" my Vincent restoration as much as possible, not because I don't expect to have to work on several Vincent modules in parallel in order to make steady progress (because of exactly the sort of backordered problem you describe), but because I will be working on two, and maybe even three, bikes in parallel. Now that this secret is out, there's no need to point out the serious flaws in my plan. Trust me, even though in my real life I conduct projects in parallel more complex than this, I recognize and fear those flaws.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 36804, member: 2806"] I'm a bit better prepared than that. When I got my Vincent I knew it would be at least a year before I could start actual work on it (little did I know then I would be off by a factor of 20 on my start time...), so I began to assemble my own shop manual. That manual has dividers separating the sections (which are based on content of the chapters of Richardson and KTB). From that time until now whenever something relevant about, say, the timing chest was printed in MPH -- or in any other book or back issue of a magazine -- I copied it and added it to the manual. The idea being, when it was time to work on the timing chest, I would go through everything in that section to see what advice (and contradictory advice) was there to help me decide what to do, and what not to do. This manual fills to bursting four 3"-thick 3-ring binders (i.e. it is a full 12" thick). I won't claim it's the most extensive or complete Vincent shop manual in existence, but... Unfortunately, having let my VOC membership lapse, I'm missing MPH from 2001 to present, so I will be on the lookout for those back issues. I don't know anyone who isn't space challenged. Even if I had a shop that was 10,000 sq.ft. (which I certainly don't), I'm sure it would be too small. Because of lathe, mill, functioning motorcycles, etc., I only have enough space to work on one motorcycle. However, I have three motorcycles (including the Vincent) on home made 2x6 ft. rolling work stands that I pull into the "restoration area" when I'm working on them, and then push back into more compact side-by-side space when not. Count on it. OK, a dirty little secret I hadn't revealed until now is that I want to "modularize" my Vincent restoration as much as possible, not because I don't expect to have to work on several Vincent modules in parallel in order to make steady progress (because of exactly the sort of backordered problem you describe), but because I will be working on two, and maybe even three, bikes in parallel. Now that this secret is out, there's no need to point out the serious flaws in my plan. Trust me, even though in my real life I conduct projects in parallel more complex than this, I recognize and fear those flaws. [/QUOTE]
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