Restoring the last of the series "A" Comets.

vibrac

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chankly bore

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What on earth is SHICKERED, I like to understand what I'm reading, please educate me Charlie.
bananaman.
It probably derives from an attempt to say "sicker" when very drunk. I conduct an erratic campaign to save local idiomatic expressions. A "blue" in Orstrayleean is a violent altercation.
 

greg brillus

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I spent some time this afternoon repairing some dents in the fuel tank which involved cutting two round holes in the base of the tank and carefully knocking the dents out using a dolly where necessary. These dents were right on the seam where the steel top overlaps and is soldered to the stainless side panels. It took some nerves of steel and some calculated hammer blows not to do more harm than good. After dressing the sheet stainless on the right side and re-polishing I feel the repair should look fine. I will then cut two new sheet steel discs larger than the holes I cut in the base, and solder them over, with a final leak check to make sure the tank won't leak fuel. Would anyone who is restoring a pre war single/twin be interested in a set of new reproduction mudguards.......?........I only ask because I have been in contact with a company here in Australia who are very capable of producing accurate replicas. You can look up their company called "Vintage steel" they produce many replica guards and their quality looks outstanding. I spoke to them today and I think Ian Savage has even discussed their making of touring guards for the post war machines, so there is a good possibility they could produce a batch for the pre war bikes. I have the remains of the originals off this Comet which are plenty good enough for use as a template. Would there be any interest from others out there.........?.........Cheers for now........Greg.
 

Simon Dinsdale

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I was told that Autocycle Engineering in Birmingham, UK made a small batch of series A mudguards a couple of years ago and the set I saw looked good. As a note the originals were made by a company called Speedwell and guess who owns Speedwell nowdays.......Autocycle Engineering.
http://www.auto-cycle.co.uk/#mud

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Robert Watson

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Indeed------ I instigated a batch or rear mudguards from Autocycle a couple of years ago, I think we ended up making around 20 of them. I needed an heir and a spare for my A twin. These guys made the rears for the Rodney Brown/Neal Videan Replica A's. There may be one still on the loose in the UK as some were bought to be "put on the shelf". We did have to have a metal basher put the chain guard dents in them as they would only roll the section
I looked at fronts as well. The fronts that the replica guys had made were not quite true to the originals being not as deep a section (however they do look pretty good on the bikes). There was not enough interest at the time to follow up on these, so it was not pursued, although Autocycle did not have a suitable section, Speedwell may have. although I recall I was told that the dies for the original sections were long gone.
 

nkt267

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If this is the guy who was at Banbury and is from Donnybrook WA then I would buy from him any day..
 
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