hello from ireland

[ronnierockets]

hi,after my first post to the forum ,(yesterday) i was asked for a photo of my bike ..so here goes i'll give it a try..[/img]

[a10 gf]

Hello, and welcome. Take a look in Forum Info for picture posting etc. Go for around 800x600, 100 to 400 kb.

Thanks.

edit: congrats, picture is there, very nice bike, and nice to see someone from Ireland on the forum.
erling

[ronnierockets]

sorry folks,    all my pictures appear to be too large,
after a lot of of frustration and head scratching ,i finally located a "shrink pictures" site.
 so i,m off back there to see if i can shrink the rest of them.

[RichardL]

Ronnie (I assume),

Thanks for the photo and, yes, that is a quite nice bike. Seeing your photos is very timely for me as I am, today, working on the mount for a single speedo mounted under the left fork nut. The difference on my bike is that I have an A50 top tree (long story). I am going to post a couple of photos of my speedo mount under the topic I previously started for that topic.

Richard L.

 

[stratcat]

Hi Ronnie,
great looking bike you've got there 

[ronnierockets]

Thanks for your kind comments fellas,  i bought this bike five years ago from a guy in wales,and i've given it a full bottom end rebuild,250 miles ago.
the brakes were pritty poor, so i fitted a twin leader to the front, and reworked the rear, with a rod  instead of the cable,
 i also fitted an oil filter on the return line ,if you look at the photo its barely visible to the rear of the carb drip shield .the filter body is mounted to a bracket which in turn is mounted to the underside of the battery tray .
the petrol taps were junked, and replaced with Gas taps ,the type  my son in law uses when installing a central heating  gas boiler.. These do not leak...have the same thread ,and dont look out of place .and as i got them from the son in law,- they cost me nothing.!

other bikes i have are  1956 m21. 1955 b33(goldie).1959 G.B.33. 1967 a65.  1975.norton commando 850.and a 1944w.d.m20 rescued from a skip,and at present hanging from the sheds rafters awaiting reserection.

[LJ.]

and replaced with Gas taps

Hi Ronnie! Now this is interesting! another A10 owner I know who is not in this forum, mentions replacing his taps with some from B&Q. (UK Diy Store) Naturally I went along to the shop to see what it was he fitted, I could only find these gas taps similar to what you mention, they have a thumb-cupped like lever... I wondered if they would be good enough for petrol, seems now you've mentioned you have fitted them... that they are. Not so sure I like the rough castness in the brass but I suppose I could file them down smooth. Its not that I want to fit them to my A10s but need some polished brass taps for my M21. They are about £11 here and there also is a good alsortment of reducers to fit.

[ronnierockets]

hi L.J., with reference to the gas taps,there are chrome ones, and brass ones.
the chrome type, are the smaller of the two.since i found out about them, i've fitted them to most of the bsa's that i have,without any problems,
the only thing you've got to do ,is  remove the mesh which is attached to the top of the old tap, and solder it to the top of the new tap, and your in business!
  i'll try later on in the week to put up a couple of photos, and as i'm having trouble with my photos being too big ,i'm experementing with a new site that i've found for reducing photo sizes ....www.reducephoto.com   and, so far so good. ,,cheers for now ..ronnierockets..

[LJ.]

Brilliant thanks Ron I'll look forward to some pics... Try this little program for resizing your photos, its a Microsoft add on and works fantastically so easy you dont need instructions. Just click the link below and download... Good Luck!

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/tips/eschelman2.mspx

[A10Boy]

Ronnierockets
Nice bike you got there . I do like the Super Rockets. How did you fit the TLS brake, did you use later forks or what ?

[ronnierockets]

Thanks Andy, i didn't have to change the forks at all,as they have the bolt up bottom ends,
to suit a full width hub.
 I bought a hub c/w twin leader -,and a few rusty spoke ends, a few years ago from a dealer at Netly Marsh.
I'm using the twin leader on the bikes origional hub, at the moment. so this year as soon as i have finished fitting new bearings,and have painted up the other hub,  i'll lace it to a stainless rim, and then  fit the job lot to my rocket.
however i've got an a65.that origionally had a half width hub,(L.hand thread axle)the rim was very rusty, i had anonther  wheel  with good  chrome  But,.it  had a full width hub.
..So after taking some measurements ,i deceided to fit the complete wheel ,
  I got my friend Tom, to machine the axle slightly, and fitted a spacersleeve  between the bearings, and fitted a double washer between the hub and fork,to act as a spacer and it all worked out ok.. ..best regards ....ronnierockets.

[groily]

Gas taps? I think I may have mentioned them a time or two hereabouts. They don't leak, cost about 4 pounds each from B and Q or whomever and I have a stock of another half a dozen a dozen waiting to go on things that don't already have them. They come with 1/4 gas threading, and with a bit of ingenuity - very little - adapters can be made to get into 1/8th or 3/8 BSP fittings. I love them and won't use anything else. A purist - I know a couple - can reasonably easily change the levers for something made up in s/s or brass that looks better, but I'm just happy to have leak-proof foolproof good quality devices that are, truly, better than any cork-ridden object - from the point of view of doing the job a tap is meant to do. But of course they aren't orig spec and certainly won't do for a genuine restoration job. They just happen to be brilliant for workaday bikes where you don't need leaks. That's me, several times over. The larger gas taps are also very good as oil feed line cut-off valves to prevent drip-drip into the crankcase over time - but again a little ingenuity is needed to make an ignition cut-out unless one has a memory as fool-proof as the tap. Which is asking too much . . . . a lapse into forgetfulness being potentially very expensive.
Bit of brass gauze soldered onto the inner end and as ronnie says, you're home and dry. Otherwise, an in-line fuel filter . . .
A major contribution to fuel-fume free sheds in my opinion!

[ronnierockets]

GOOD MAN GROILY!
Its great to hear from another gas tap fan,.yer a man after me own heart,..petrol's got too expensive to have it dripping from a leaky tap,..as we have found out.
All you need now is to get a son in law thats in the central heating business,and you'l have an free supply like me.

[ronnierockets]

HI L.J.
 Here's some photos as promised.

[groily]

Good Man Ronnie! Those taps look perfect to me. I've tended to use the chrome ones 'cos that's what I came across in the plumbers' merchants. But they're basically the same, as you say. Bye-bye for ever to soaking and boiling bits of cork in water or wax, messing them up getting them on and off their plungers and in and out of horrible holes, having 'em leak like colanders if you leave them dry for any length of time, and all the rest of it . . . . Here's one I made earlier waiting to go on something, with a knurled brass knob to turn it instead of the cheapo lever with plastic flash in garish colour - looks more like a pull-push job (not that I care much!). Just needs the filter bit making, and  thread-adapters, depending on what I end up putting it on.