Labours Rewarded With The First Signs Of Life
Added on Saturday, December 6th, 2008 by Carole Nash Editor
Labours Rewarded
Friday has been fantastic – I’ll explain – We started the day by fabricating mounts for the iconic Bates headlamp, cut from a length of stainless steel tube. Terry then carefully welded a nut into each end, into which we will thread the CCE mini chrome indicators, the whole assembly mounts off the Springer forks. Then we set about fitting all the control cables and chrome CCE levers to the handlebars, the front brake is hydraulic and still needs bleeding up, but the clutch is a simple cable operated assembly – she’s really starting to come together now.
We had a bit of help today as Peter Weston, our design consultant, joined us for the day. The extra pair of hands were very welcome, as I have been tied up grinding down the welds on the exhaust and polishing feverishly. I’m limited in what I can do with the restricted space at the show and can’t risk spraying the rest of the crew (or the bike itself) with polishing soap; and after a few hours we made the call to go for an antique brushed finish on the exhaust; this requires much more elbow grease, but the end result looks really fantastic.
The build has reached a major milestone today as Snowy completed the wiring loom. He wired up the 1.4 KW Motor Factory starter motor and installed the high output GS Yuasa battery shortly after 2.30PM. Terry couldn’t resist giving the starter button a cheeky flick; there was no fuel in the system when engine barked and tried to spin into life, much to the surprise of those people gathered around the Carole Nash Construct build area - most of whom jumped three feet back and cheered with delight.
The phone rings with the news that as of 2.38 pm Terry is a Grandfather and it’s a boy. Keyleigh has spent 15 hours in a difficult labour, but she’s doing well and so is 7lb baby Charley Dylan Clarke.
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Work plan for day 10 – Saturday
• Tank comes back from paint
• Rear fender back from paint
• Rear light assembly
• Fit exhaust
• Seat pan
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