this bike has been in the back of the garage, waiting for the better weather... I dug it out the other day and did a few jobs in anticipation of riding it soon. One of the things I hated was taking the tank off as it was so difficult to remove the two front nuts... so I decided to make some Allen headed nuts so I could use a long Allen key to easily get to them...
I pondered how to make the hexagon, and came on the idea of a stepped broach method. So I made the nuts in brass, and used an old Allen key to make the stepped broach which cuts the hexagon in steps as its forced through (2lb hammer!)
it worked rather well!
