!914 Twin HD Cannon ball request

[LouieMCman]

Let me see, you are holding the brush for the striper (stripper?) and turning the wheel for him, and he's doing what?

[Slojo]

Oops..... stripper striper, hey both can be entertaining.
Joe

[Slojo]

Tick tock

All attempts are made now to do the little things that must be done while waiting for the return of Johnny Z the striper and the rest of the painted parts. Re-fitting plated parts and painted parts back together is time consuming tedious work yet must be done.

I stopped over at Mark spark's for some grinding work. Mark always has the right tools for what ever my grinding needs are. I am using original HD shafts and rebuilding them back to size. This time we ground the pinion shaft in preparation for hard chrome plating. The hard chrome is a common process used to build up a shaft for regrinding to your desired size.

The surface finish is important prior to hard chrome When a part is hard chromed it will mimic the micro finish it is applied to. Problem is, if the shaft is not in good condition the chrome will make a bad surface ten times worse.

Chris Boarder shipped the gas tanks this week and I fitted them to the frame today, they look great. Chris is a real trooper and a talented tin knocker. We had a little difficulty with this fuel tank project but Chris stuck with me through the issues until they were resolved. I would be happy to do business with Chris again. Thank you Chris for a good job and a lot of patience.

Joe

[c.o.]

[Slojo]

So a, do they look just a little fat?....Yeaa
Joe

[jurassic]

nice tanks,but will a gas nozzel fit in the bungs??

[Slojo]

Lonnie
No they are stock sized fuel fitting unfortunately I may need to make up something to carry along, not good.
Joe

[fillibuster]

Lonnie
No they are stock sized fuel fitting unfortunately I may need to make up something to carry along, not good.
Joe

Any farmer with milk cows would have your answer. You could probably wear it around your neck.

[Barry Brown]

Joe, Talk to Erik Dunk, He is going to use some sort of bladder resting on the tank top. BB

[Slojo]

Chasing loose ends to their destination, the Ghost.

In need of a good sprocket shaft and pinion shaft, the thought of hard chrome is good for this application just not good enough. Checking the Okuma to see if I could find a couple new shafts in there. A few hours later with a program and set up completed the first two sprocket shafts were produced. A pinion shaft program was made off the sprocket shaft program in no time and ready to make its first part.

The 6 degree tapered end mills order last week should be ready Monday, these e-mills are for circular interpolating the tapered holes in the flywheels. While picking them up I will also get a couple woodruff key cutters to put the key slots in the shafts while still in the Okuma turning center.

Connecting rods are now becoming a priority on my list of things to do. Now that pistons design is finalized and ordered a rod design should be produced tomorrow. I intend to put numbers to the finished profile so the blanks can be cut on a wire E.D.M. After the E.D.M. process they will end up in the Okuma machining center to be finished.

Joe

[c.o.]

[Slojo]

Long day. Short report.

I turned the program around end for end on the pinion shaft so the gear end key slot could be cut while in the Okuma, a slight over look in the early stages of processing. Once completed with that task I came up short a screw for the end of the pinion shaft. Looking around one turned up in the Okuma again. This was an easy task to produce the 3/8X24 L.H screw. Shortly after finishing the screw one was located in a Competition Distributing package so,,,a little time wasted, not good.

Since it is becoming difficult to find things a little (very little) time out to clean and organize the shop became necessary.

Next was to draw the male connecting rod and put numbers to it. After all was developed I input the numbers in the other Okuma (machining center) to test my data. A couple errors resolved and the machine ran through the profile perfectly. The data now finished is already sent by e-mail to wire cut the profile on an E.D.M.
Joe

[Slojo]

Dragging on

The painter is back from vacation for three days to get done as much as he can before he goes back to his northern hide out for yet another extended weekend vacation. Most of the Gray Ghost is in Gray primer and ready for paint. Tomorrow should be a bountiful day for harvesting painted parts of the garage ceiling vine.

The pin striper has given up on trying to brush paint the stripes on my rims. He has not even attempted the frame striping yet.

I wanted to order the striping roller early this morning and he was not convinced that was the right direction to follow. By 4:00 PM he decided the wheel was the only way to do the job right. So I ordered a wheel to be shipped overnight. It was to late for over night shipping and wont go out until tomorrow for Wednesday delivery.

Where are my tapered end-mills for the flywheels? They were not sent to the cutter grinder until today, they should have gone out last Thursday.

This is like pushing an Elephant, it would not be so bad if the time frame was not closing in.

Today a run to the painter, welder, Painters Supply for blue strip paint and the bicycle shop to evaluate head lights. The head lights were rejected the paint looked good off the old original paint tank used for copying but when aligned next to a good original paint source it was far from acceptable. Always count on Chris's talent to get the welding right, pure skill and determination.

A little machine work completed and a couple float levers (both original levers one was a early style casted out of one piece solid bronze, what years?) mounted on Competition Distributing supplied floats that carried Vic across country on his t rusty 14 twin H.D. single speed.

Well boys "We didn't get much done today but will give it hell tomorrow" ,,,, At the end of the day these were my fathers favorite words after working my brothers and I to near death. This may be where I get my un-relentless drive to finish this project, ON TIME.
Joe

[c.o.]

[Tommo]

Joe,
The cast lever is for the early one screw float pivot bowls and some of the very early two screw bowls.
The other lever is wider across the pivot and fits all the later two screw float pivot bowls.
I don't have an exact date as to when the changeover occured but experience suggests somewhere in the 1916 to 1917 period.
If you use the cast lever in a later bowl you will need to make spacers or special screws to centralise the lever and in doing so eliminate any chance of float hang-up
The cast lever is around .351 wide and the pressed one around .371 (roughly 11/32 and 3/8)
If the pressed lever won't pass into the gap you have an early bowl that is designed for a cast lever, generally but not always the single screw is the give-away.
Hope this helps