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Norton Transplant s (Wed Oct 1, 2003)

Hi All
Stephen has a question. Any of you know which Norton Transplant for what years?
Royal.

I am putting a Series II basket together and don't have the triple trees. I know they are off an Atlas or early Commando, and that the tube is longer to fit throught the Enfield frame.

Do you know if an N15 or G15 lower triple tree is a straight swap? If not, have you ever heard of someone adapting an Atlas or Early Commando lower by lengthening the tube?

Any help you can provide would be appreciated. Thanks.

Stephen

Hi there, I have a 66 matchless G15 CSR and was reading in one of my books that
the fork tubes were the same ones used on the Series II. I know the tubes are available here in Canada from Walridge motors. I am in need of these tubes myself and found it interesting.

Bobby B <whopkin1 AT telus.net>

Seems to me that the manufacturer of these stanchion tubes in the USA is
'Forking by Frank'.

Old Frank is long gone, but the company has been in business for decades.

Tubes are available either plain, or hard chromed.

.. gREgg

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Have you ever had an accident with your bike? (Thu Oct 2, 2003)

Hi All
Have you ever had a crash? Did you learn something? Was it avoidable? Could other guys and girls learn from your experience? Could it save their life? Do you want to share your experience and details about your accident?

Sorry that was many questions. Following my own accident, I think there isn't enough sharing of such experiences that could possibly save the life of other riders.

After a couple of accident experiences (if we survive) maybe the hard way it has made us better riders. I'm going to collect information of accidents from guys like you and make them available to a wider audience.

It doesn't matter if it was your fault or not. Either is good. There will be no names and identifying details, but analysis of much data which hoppefully produces something everyone can learn from. Any form of description. Like one you'd give your insurance company or in a police report. Plus some honest reflections. You could draw a sketch in MS Paint and save it to a jpg (if your system don't do that
use another program to convert to jpg, like MS PhotoEditor).

Please send any contributions directly to
Regards
Royal

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Bonding the cork segments ! (Thu Oct 2, 2003)

Gee It was a long time since I had to do this. M.D. Reed from Los Angeles asks:

Here is the question. Whats the process involved in bonding the cork segments to the clutch sprocket drum

M.D. Reed

Some years ago Mike Urschel was working on a Series 2 motor and the cork needed replacing in the clutch basket. I was working for an automotive supplier who manufactured friction plates for automatic transmissions. These plates look very much like motorcycle clutch plates. Mike had a fixture machined that was two 'donuts' with a 1/2 inch bolt to clamp them together. I had the prototype shop cut some friction material to fit the basket.

I chemically stripped the basket, bead blasted it, then we applied glue and baked it in an oven. Next we used the fixture to clamp the friction material to the basket and then baked that in an oven. The clutch was then assembled into the motor. I believe this bike has not seen much use but it worked fine initially.

I know that there are some companies who reline brakes and clutches here in Chicago who can provide the friction material and glue and probably the oven as well. I think there is a guy who makes clutches for Vellocettes and other bikes near Chicago who might be able to perform the same service. Dave Smith is his name and he used to have an ad in Walneck's.

Mike might also be interested in doing a small batch of clutch baskets if enough people need it. He would need to source the friction material. I'm sure he still has the fixture. Dimension would be easy to provide, but I think this is pretty simple to work out of you have the basket in front of you.

Sorry I can't provide more information on the temperatures and glue material and the thickness of the friction material. If someone is desperate I could make some calls.

-RickL

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