| Author | Message | ||
     Crusty |
Found this on the Moto Campers Forum and thought I'd share it here. Old school motorcycle building. It's so old the film is Silent but still fun to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m8PmMQK76s | ||
| Torquehd |
YES! | ||
| Sifo |
Pretty cool! No assembly line. Not even an engine stand. Just a guy who knows how it all goes together, wrestling with the engine on his workbench! | ||
| Reepicheep |
Very cool. (In my best napolean dynamite voice... "Take it off any sweet jumps?") | ||
| Tootal |
Thanks John! That was fun. It was interesting to me when they bored the cylinders and the tool bit in the boring bar was on the back side and the lathe was running backwards. That's not the way I would do it, I like to see my tool bit and all modern machining runs the lathe the other way so you can see what you're doing. My guess is the tool bit is set at the finish dimension and just needs one pass. It also struck me that the tolerances needed to be roped in a little. If it takes a lead hammer to assemble an engine you might not have done it correctly! But, that's what they had to work with back then and is really impressive. I look at that and then I think of how pistons are no longer machined round but are machined so they get round when they are hot. Technology is awesome! |
