First go at working some metal for it...

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Decided to try and turn stock chromy clutch cover into open cover. Just to give me some beginner's practice, and if it worked, save some money! Mainly used pillar drill and hand file.

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More at blog:

http://chickenshackducatiproject.blogspot.com/

[Paranoid Dave]

nice job there.

[scrapps]

Good work...... nice to see somebody doing a bit of DIY

[uksurfer]

interesting stuff, i read the whole article, looking forward to the finished bike!
good work

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Cheers all - first ever bike project and I am not much of a mechanic and in no way an engineer. I keeping my sights aimed pretty low for this first one and it's still a massive learning curve. Am in awe of the skills of the likes of Kato, Capo and many more. Paranoid Dave you recent thread very inspirational.
I am an untidy impatient sort and specialise in dropping things on newly coated parts etc, so going for the lived in look on this project :rolleyes: Mainly obsessed with paint job design at the moment....

[slob]

Simple, elegant, cheap and personal... top job.

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Thanks mate -I was quite nervous putting it up on the forum, but the photos are kind, it's far from a perfect circle in real life:mand: It's real encouragement to try other stuff when you get a good reaction though!

[Paranoid Dave]

Paranoid Dave you recent thread very inspirational.

thanks very much, but this forum is for monster lovers of every kind. Some ride every day and the bike is unloved, unwashed. Others like me prefer to tinker but don't get out as much as we'd like to. It takes all sorts and you're one of them, and your chicken shed will i'm sure be an inspiration to many others.

Keep up the good work

[crust]

I wouldn't worry about the 'lived in' look, park it next to mine.

My bike charts my fumbling attempts at learning metalwork from the most amateur piece of panel beating to to a wide variety of differently machined spacers.

What other people think of it doesn't bother me, it makes me smile as it reminds me of the frustration, blood loss and occasional joy as things come together-ish.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog and identified with large amounts of it, very amusing.

Yours is coming along nicely, look forward to seeing the first iteration, because there will be more, you're been assimilated into the collective.

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