Slow Monster rebuild - Page 14

350TSS · 06-07-2017, 09:35 PM

I had two small slugs of 25mm aluminium bar about 25 mm long and while I was playing on the lathe for the camera pegs I thought I would knock up some entry and exit pipes for the aluminium catch tank/reservoir for chain oiler. I made then the same size as the engine breather outlet behind the upright cylinder. The finish on these in the photograph was not good because I could only hold about 3mm in the 3 jaw chuck and they kept moving as I tried to make cuts. They have in fact polished up well using a hand held battery drill and 240 grade wet and dry

350TSS · 06-07-2017, 09:43 PM

Finally I spent 20 minutes making my life a lot easier when working on the lathe.

Previously I would spend 2 minutes out of every 10 looking for either the drill chuck key,the 3 jaw chuck key or the tool post square drive key. I was also hoping that being on elastic if I started the lathe with the 3 jaw chuck key inserted it would yank it out before doing any damage. Unfortunately not the case and I will have to work out a hanging location that might make this possible.

Mr Gazza · 07-07-2017, 04:33 PM

I have an unused Loobman kit that I think bluesnoseandtoes sent me.

http://www.loobman.co.uk/

I decided not to fit it to my Monster as it involved winding wire round my shiny swinging arm. But your tube mount eliminates the worst part of the Loobman kit and makes it something.

You can have it if it's any use. Just pm your address to me.

Mr Gazza · 07-07-2017, 06:09 PM

There you go that's what it looks like.

The bottle is only about 4" tall and has a mounting bracket.

The fork shaped thingy is the feed nozzle, which dribbles oil to both sides of the sprocket and thence into the O-rings both sides of the chain. Seems to me that the supplied, or suggested mounting method of that is a bit Mickey Mouse, but your bracket would hold the nozzle firmly in just the right place and make a worthwhile job of it.

It's an early version of the kit with just a squeezy bottle (simple). Later ones have a fancy button to fill the delivery tube.

You just squeeze some oil into the delivery tube before a run and it runs down onto the sprocket. How long it dribbles for depends on the oil type I suppose, and how much you squeeze out.

You can use any oil you like. I would probably use saw chain oil. Olive oil is good apparently.. I wonder what Castor oil would be like?

Darren69 · 07-07-2017, 06:19 PM

What happens when you park up? Is there an off tap?

Mr Gazza · 07-07-2017, 06:26 PM

It will only deliver the oil that you squeeze up into the tube. So if you are only going to have a short hop it would probably be best not to squeeze it at all.

The tube comes out of the top of the bottle you see, so the bottle can't empty itself. You just charge the delivery tube with however much oil you think is appropriate for the journey... Not very much most of the time, I would imagine?

350TSS · 07-07-2017, 07:00 PM

That is a very kind offer Mr Gazza, unfortunately not yet having made the seat I do not know if it would fit , from the picture it looks to be too big for the space I will have available. In any event before seeing your post I spent the better part of this afternoon cutting bits of cardboard to make up templates for a reservoir/ breather catch tank. Cardboard is not actually much good for this because it is too flexible so I ended up cutting it in 1mm aluminium. That also has its disadvantages because if you use tin snips for longer cuts you have to bend the sheet to clear the pivot point and this means that the final finish will be compromised. My jigsaw always seems to snag on the last 10m of a cut and this also bends the sheet aluminium.
My proposed design sits on the left side alongside the bell crank for the rear suspension and is above and below the oval cross brace tube and finishes with a flat bottom (in which I shall mount a tap) just to the rear of the rear exhaust header as it goes through the swinging arm. Pictures to follow next week when I have something solid to show.

350TSS · 07-07-2017, 08:15 PM

This morning I spent making the bobbin to hold the rubber band that will secure the rear of the petrol tank. I pondered on the diameter of the bar to be machined, 40mm say would be good for spreading the load into the carbon fibre but not so good aesthetically or for sealing as the tank as moulded has a double curvature at the point where the bobbin needs to be mounted. I settled on 25mm and included some "O" rings in the design. The bobbin part was turned down to 10mm and this was threaded to engage with the "nut on the inside of the tank (which will most likely be bonded in.
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Darren69 · 07-07-2017, 08:24 PM

Bad luck Gazza I guess you're stuck with the Loobman! Have you tried Craigslist?

350TSS · 11-07-2017, 04:24 AM

Wife decided to work from home today and strangely enough I never get much garage time on "those" days.
Here are some pictures of the first draft oil breather catch tank / chain oiler reservoir in aluminium and cardboard.

[img]
https://s21.postimg.org/h7ukzslt3/Catch_tank_mock_up_4.jpg[/img]

350TSS · 11-07-2017, 06:28 AM

350TSS · 11-07-2017, 06:30 AM

Just arrived in the post from China a tap for the gravity chain oiler. Not bad quality for £5.73 delivered

350TSS · 11-07-2017, 06:58 AM

I will have to modify the inlet and outlet pipes. I will remove the existing brass bits and replace on the inlet side with a 12mm aluminium boss which at one end will be welded into the tank and at the other turned down and threaded 6mm to engage in the body of the tap. There will be a thinned down 6mm nut to allow for orientation of the tap with the operating lever facing to the rear. The outlet side will be threaded 6mm to engage with the tap body then turned down to fit inside the clear plastic windscreen washer delivery hase.
I toyed with the idea of making the outlet pipe the restrictor "jet" by drilling it with my smallest drill (1mm). This was rejected because 1. there will be a dael of buggering about with jet sizes and oil viscosities to get the correct level of lubrication rather than a short term saturation, this alone warrants a separate component, easily changed. The easiest place to change the jets will be at the end of the delivery pipe next to the sprocket

350TSS · 12-07-2017, 05:24 AM

Tap now modified

350TSS · 13-07-2017, 06:54 AM

Delivery jet now machined in brass, I tried to make an aluminium one but 3 times swarf grabbed the 1mm drill and broke it (despite copious application of WD40 whilst drilling). With half a drill stuck in the work piece they became scrap. Brass really is lovely to machine. Picture below was taken before final skim and tidy up

07-07-2017, 04:33 PM	#3
Mr Gazza Lord of the Rings Join Date: May 2013 Location: Norwich Bike: M900sie Posts: 5,849	I have an unused Loobman kit that I think bluesnoseandtoes sent me. http://www.loobman.co.uk/ I decided not to fit it to my Monster as it involved winding wire round my shiny swinging arm. But your tube mount eliminates the worst part of the Loobman kit and makes it something. You can have it if it's any use. Just pm your address to me. __________________

07-07-2017, 06:09 PM	#4
Mr Gazza Lord of the Rings Join Date: May 2013 Location: Norwich Bike: M900sie Posts: 5,849	There you go that's what it looks like. The bottle is only about 4" tall and has a mounting bracket. The fork shaped thingy is the feed nozzle, which dribbles oil to both sides of the sprocket and thence into the O-rings both sides of the chain. Seems to me that the supplied, or suggested mounting method of that is a bit Mickey Mouse, but your bracket would hold the nozzle firmly in just the right place and make a worthwhile job of it. It's an early version of the kit with just a squeezy bottle (simple). Later ones have a fancy button to fill the delivery tube. You just squeeze some oil into the delivery tube before a run and it runs down onto the sprocket. How long it dribbles for depends on the oil type I suppose, and how much you squeeze out. You can use any oil you like. I would probably use saw chain oil. Olive oil is good apparently.. I wonder what Castor oil would be like? __________________

07-07-2017, 06:19 PM	#5
Darren69 Transmaniacon MOC Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Sutton In Ashfield Bike: Multiple Monsters Posts: 6,030	What happens when you park up? Is there an off tap? __________________ Roast Beef Monster! Termignoni and Bucci - Italian for pipe and slippers! S4 Fogarty, S4R 07T, 748, Series 1 Mirage

07-07-2017, 06:26 PM	#6
Mr Gazza Lord of the Rings Join Date: May 2013 Location: Norwich Bike: M900sie Posts: 5,849	It will only deliver the oil that you squeeze up into the tube. So if you are only going to have a short hop it would probably be best not to squeeze it at all. The tube comes out of the top of the bottle you see, so the bottle can't empty itself. You just charge the delivery tube with however much oil you think is appropriate for the journey... Not very much most of the time, I would imagine? __________________

07-07-2017, 08:24 PM	#9
Darren69 Transmaniacon MOC Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Sutton In Ashfield Bike: Multiple Monsters Posts: 6,030	Bad luck Gazza I guess you're stuck with the Loobman! Have you tried Craigslist? __________________ Roast Beef Monster! Termignoni and Bucci - Italian for pipe and slippers! S4 Fogarty, S4R 07T, 748, Series 1 Mirage

06-07-2017, 09:35 PM	#1
350TSS Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Shipbourne Bike: M900 Posts: 1,421	I had two small slugs of 25mm aluminium bar about 25 mm long and while I was playing on the lathe for the camera pegs I thought I would knock up some entry and exit pipes for the aluminium catch tank/reservoir for chain oiler. I made then the same size as the engine breather outlet behind the upright cylinder. The finish on these in the photograph was not good because I could only hold about 3mm in the 3 jaw chuck and they kept moving as I tried to make cuts. They have in fact polished up well using a hand held battery drill and 240 grade wet and dry

06-07-2017, 09:43 PM	#2
350TSS Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Shipbourne Bike: M900 Posts: 1,421	Finally I spent 20 minutes making my life a lot easier when working on the lathe. Previously I would spend 2 minutes out of every 10 looking for either the drill chuck key,the 3 jaw chuck key or the tool post square drive key. I was also hoping that being on elastic if I started the lathe with the 3 jaw chuck key inserted it would yank it out before doing any damage. Unfortunately not the case and I will have to work out a hanging location that might make this possible.

07-07-2017, 07:00 PM	#7
350TSS Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Shipbourne Bike: M900 Posts: 1,421	That is a very kind offer Mr Gazza, unfortunately not yet having made the seat I do not know if it would fit , from the picture it looks to be too big for the space I will have available. In any event before seeing your post I spent the better part of this afternoon cutting bits of cardboard to make up templates for a reservoir/ breather catch tank. Cardboard is not actually much good for this because it is too flexible so I ended up cutting it in 1mm aluminium. That also has its disadvantages because if you use tin snips for longer cuts you have to bend the sheet to clear the pivot point and this means that the final finish will be compromised. My jigsaw always seems to snag on the last 10m of a cut and this also bends the sheet aluminium. My proposed design sits on the left side alongside the bell crank for the rear suspension and is above and below the oval cross brace tube and finishes with a flat bottom (in which I shall mount a tap) just to the rear of the rear exhaust header as it goes through the swinging arm. Pictures to follow next week when I have something solid to show.

07-07-2017, 08:15 PM	#8
350TSS Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Shipbourne Bike: M900 Posts: 1,421	This morning I spent making the bobbin to hold the rubber band that will secure the rear of the petrol tank. I pondered on the diameter of the bar to be machined, 40mm say would be good for spreading the load into the carbon fibre but not so good aesthetically or for sealing as the tank as moulded has a double curvature at the point where the bobbin needs to be mounted. I settled on 25mm and included some "O" rings in the design. The bobbin part was turned down to 10mm and this was threaded to engage with the "nut on the inside of the tank (which will most likely be bonded in. l

11-07-2017, 04:24 AM	#10
350TSS Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Shipbourne Bike: M900 Posts: 1,421	Wife decided to work from home today and strangely enough I never get much garage time on "those" days. Here are some pictures of the first draft oil breather catch tank / chain oiler reservoir in aluminium and cardboard. [img] https://s21.postimg.org/h7ukzslt3/Catch_tank_mock_up_4.jpg[/img]

11-07-2017, 06:28 AM	#11
350TSS Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Shipbourne Bike: M900 Posts: 1,421

11-07-2017, 06:30 AM	#12
350TSS Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Shipbourne Bike: M900 Posts: 1,421	Just arrived in the post from China a tap for the gravity chain oiler. Not bad quality for £5.73 delivered

11-07-2017, 06:58 AM	#13
350TSS Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Shipbourne Bike: M900 Posts: 1,421	I will have to modify the inlet and outlet pipes. I will remove the existing brass bits and replace on the inlet side with a 12mm aluminium boss which at one end will be welded into the tank and at the other turned down and threaded 6mm to engage in the body of the tap. There will be a thinned down 6mm nut to allow for orientation of the tap with the operating lever facing to the rear. The outlet side will be threaded 6mm to engage with the tap body then turned down to fit inside the clear plastic windscreen washer delivery hase. I toyed with the idea of making the outlet pipe the restrictor "jet" by drilling it with my smallest drill (1mm). This was rejected because 1. there will be a dael of buggering about with jet sizes and oil viscosities to get the correct level of lubrication rather than a short term saturation, this alone warrants a separate component, easily changed. The easiest place to change the jets will be at the end of the delivery pipe next to the sprocket

12-07-2017, 05:24 AM	#14
350TSS Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Shipbourne Bike: M900 Posts: 1,421	Tap now modified

13-07-2017, 06:54 AM	#15
350TSS Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Shipbourne Bike: M900 Posts: 1,421	Delivery jet now machined in brass, I tried to make an aluminium one but 3 times swarf grabbed the 1mm drill and broke it (despite copious application of WD40 whilst drilling). With half a drill stuck in the work piece they became scrap. Brass really is lovely to machine. Picture below was taken before final skim and tidy up