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Modified the Oxford grips to work from the built-in controller without paying Yamaha an obscene about of money for the privilege.
Oxford grips £70 + £2.50 for the connectors. Yamaha wanted £210 ![]() Sent from an S20 using Tapatalk with that kin cr4p blocked
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My daughter Eleri recently bought a 1921 Singer hand crank machine from a charity shop, in a generally lovely, and working condition. However the wooden handle was held on with a really nasty ill-fitting bolt and a nut with the wrong thread. It should be held on with a steel pin with a flat head and peined over at the arm end.
I decided to do something about it. A four inch nail cut to length, three small washers, and some time spent with a file, and a small ball pein hammer did the job. I'm quite pleased with the result. ![]() ![]() I just need to clean and oil all the bushes and bearings now. |
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Nice work, Gary!
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Thanks Craig. It's very satisfying to have it sorted.
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Odds and ends: started the bike and checked the charging rate, then checked chain tension and tyre pressures ahead of a trip to Wolverhampton on Monday for the funeral of an old friend.
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Sorry to hear about your friend, Gary.
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Sorry about your mate Gary, good mates are hard to come by, but if you are going to Wolverhampton take your biggest lock and chain.
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I know Wolverhampton fairly well. If I was going into the city itself I probably wouldn't take the bike, but the service is on a green burial site outside of W'ton so should be fairly safe.
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That would be Bushbury Crem ? Yeah, quite secure and far out of town.
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No, Wrottesley Park.
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