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Title: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: mikeb on 03.01. 2018 01:13
Not sure if the world needs another one, but here's a new year's project of bsa info:

bsa.viz.nz/
EDIT - THE SITE IS NOW http://bsa-info.nz/ (http://bsa-info.nz/)

the goal is a single place where I can find the info I want, rather than wading through tons of old files on my PC and searching the net over and over. its somewhat inspired by the jampot site - they've got everything.

there's nothing original here, its all been gathered across the interweb. but my fear is one day a site may disappear and stuff could be lost. hence at least another copy.

one point of difference may be the files are hosted elsewhere so the amount of server space used is small, and the amount of files than can be hosted is large. Tho with the external hosting there's a small time delay in the download. I have more files I'll add one day (tho the task is quite boring) and if you have stuff you'd like to add complete the contacts form on the site. I want to get the descriptions accurate as that helps finding stuff. almost all are old scans and i tried to OCR some but the quality is too poor, so currently not searchable.

HTH
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: orabanda on 03.01. 2018 01:50
Mike,
You are a gem; what a wonderful reference!
Top marks young fella; you can take your pick from the harem!
Richard
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: beezermacc on 03.01. 2018 09:15
An excellent resource, thanks very much. I've put a link to your site on my website. Hope that's OK. Thanks again.
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: Greybeard on 03.01. 2018 09:42
Well done!
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: a10 gf on 03.01. 2018 12:57
Lots of work behind this, excellent.
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: RogerSB on 03.01. 2018 13:50
Fantastic! Fantastic! Used it already. Thanks very much for all your hard work doing this.
Roger.
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: Seabee on 03.01. 2018 21:01
Thanks Mike! Much appreciated.
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: mikeb on 03.01. 2018 21:51
cheers guys. good to see it used already
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I've put a link to your site on my website. Hope that's OK.
of course!
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Lots of work behind this
true. the tricky bit was how to automate listing the remote files using Oauth credentials and then keep notes on them on the hosting server. still, now thats done, new pdf files can be added by saving them to the right google drive folder and then clicking the 'update' button in the backend. done. notes and descriptions can be edited front end.
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: muskrat on 03.01. 2018 22:40
G'day Mike.
Sluggo was doing similar here https://www.a7a10.net/forum/index.php?topic=12471.0
The more info out there the better. If any of our members (many I know) have other BSA's can now find info on your site. Well done.
Cheers
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: Tinka on 08.01. 2018 13:09
Thanks, found this very helpful already.
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: mikeb on 05.12. 2019 07:14
a bit of an update on this bsa info site: DECEMBER 2019 EDIT SITE IS NOW:http://bsa-info.nz/ (http://bsa-info.nz/)
someone sent me access to a few hundred BSA factory bulletins and US east coast /west coast dealer info sheets.  *smile* it just shows that bsa enthusiasts are awesome.

so i've reorganized the website, given it a visual makeover and put all those files online. so you can now browse and download any that you like.
the next problems is there is such a lot of info that its hard to find what you want, so over christmas i'll work on a search function and i'll also move the site to a different name (drop the 'viz'). I'll post again once this is done.

if you have any bsa info to share like this or if you see any disasters on the site let me know

enjoy!
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: bsa-bill on 05.12. 2019 09:54
Well done - had a quick shuftie looks like a very handy site to have on tap so  --  bookmarked it,
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: muskrat on 05.12. 2019 10:39
G'day Mike.
Thanks for that. I bookmarked that page a fair time ago. Great to re-visit. More posters for the shed!
Cheers
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: duTch on 05.12. 2019 12:21

 
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   Well done - had a quick shuftie looks like a very handy site to have on tap so  --  bookmarked it,   

 Likewise, and I like this touch;
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   © 1919 BSA  -  Powered by cable ties and old oily rags     
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: mikeb on 17.12. 2019 08:30
another bsa-info site update:
if you had viz bookmarked, you may want to change it to the new site. I've yet to do anything about getting it attached to google etc so it will be hard to search for currently.
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: Superflash on 21.01. 2020 00:28
Awesome job. Will come in very handy.. *smile*. Just wondering though if there's anywhere I can go to enter in a part number, and it tells me what I've got? As mentioned in my intro, have started playing with a 53 SF. Trouble is, theres very little info I can find regarding some of the finer points for original parts. So far I've found out I have a std A10 head and an old crusty camshaft that is also std A10. Have since bought a nice shiney new 67-356 SF cam, but finding the right head is a bit more tricky. Cheers
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: mikeb on 21.01. 2020 00:42
use the search feature on the draganfly site for parts numbers-> item description. they've done a great job of compiling this stuff
https://www.draganfly.co.uk (https://www.draganfly.co.uk)
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: orabanda on 21.01. 2020 00:46
You will find this site very useful
http://bsa-info.nz/
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: MickFarmer64 on 30.06. 2020 22:15
WOW! excellent piece of work and extremely useful. Must have taken a lot of time and effort, thank you.  *beer*
Title: Re: new site for BSA parts lists, manuals and info
Post by: RichardL on 01.07. 2020 01:47
That is a great reference. I've already gotten some useful info from it. I dare say, the seven A10 owners in New Zealand fell the same way. ;)

Richard L.