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<blockquote data-quote="Matty" data-source="post: 29988" data-attributes="member: 1339"><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>My alloy gear lever broke many years ago - was welded and soon broke again (see clev trev for explanation !!) I bodged it to look like an alloy one with a bit of copper plumbing tube over the broken stub, some bending and gluing the foot end back on with araldite. Reshaped with body filler and painted silver. nobody noticed for 40 years.</p><p></p><p>However being more pickey in my old age I wanted something better and found that the splines were the same as a BSA Bantam kickstart. So I bought a new one, cut the splined piece off, welded on a piece of steel bar which I heated, bent to the right shape, and filed to gear lever proportions. As a precaution I filed it to be quite thin so that if it caught on something it would bend, hopefully before damaging the gearbox casing - perhaps this was why it was alloy in the first case. See attached picture (sorry can't get the site to accept the picture which I have reduced to about 80k to no avail - is there a size limit, have not had a problem before)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matty, post: 29988, member: 1339"] Hi My alloy gear lever broke many years ago - was welded and soon broke again (see clev trev for explanation !!) I bodged it to look like an alloy one with a bit of copper plumbing tube over the broken stub, some bending and gluing the foot end back on with araldite. Reshaped with body filler and painted silver. nobody noticed for 40 years. However being more pickey in my old age I wanted something better and found that the splines were the same as a BSA Bantam kickstart. So I bought a new one, cut the splined piece off, welded on a piece of steel bar which I heated, bent to the right shape, and filed to gear lever proportions. As a precaution I filed it to be quite thin so that if it caught on something it would bend, hopefully before damaging the gearbox casing - perhaps this was why it was alloy in the first case. See attached picture (sorry can't get the site to accept the picture which I have reduced to about 80k to no avail - is there a size limit, have not had a problem before) [/QUOTE]
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