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I was going to buy the one on trademe cos its 200 bux cheaper. Hah. Havent bought it yet. Trying to find more info about them. Can't seem to find any reviews etc. But $800 with a 2 year warranty, cant be that bad?

This thing goes like a cut blanket on a cat. So much grin. Can only imagine what its like with the big boy carb.

Has anyone had experience with the BOC Raptor Tigs? https://www.boc.co.nz/shop/en/nz/boc-raptor-180-acdc-tig-welder-raptortig180acdc-p Can anyone see any red flags? I'm pretty keen on one of these.

I will not be able to make this thursday

Its all about finding the cheapest parts. So you can have 15 bike projects on the go at once.

This dude is legit: https://www.cruzinimage.net/ Pistons, rings, carb boots, carb kits, gaskets, you name it. Got some stuff for my gs550 from him. Was good quality.

Just wow. Highlight of my day seeing there is an update on this. Fuck you get alot done. So awesome man.

Sweet tail lights

My mate had one of these when we were at uni. Was wickedly fast. His dad was an awesome engineer, and built him a custom close ratio gearbox by sourcing all different flavours of honda that had boxes with these internals (IIRC Legends, Integras and Accords among others) just to get the biggest varieties of ratiors, then chose the best ones to put in the final box. I think he pulled down 13 different boxes. Was REALLY quick after that. However, the britishness finally caught up with him and he had a short in the engine loom and it burnt the whole engine bay out. Car ended up at pickapart. If only people had known the effort that went into the gearbox. He should have kept at least that! As always, love your build/fix ups. Looking forward to the next installment.

Can also recommend Simon. GC.

C3's are dope AF. Good score Phil. Super keen to see what you end up doing to it. P.s. Convert it to manwell.

Its a bit far, I'll try and make it though.

Will you need to add a but more oil metering to compensate for bigger carb?

Thankyou for documenting your builds so well. Always makes my day when I see one of your updates! Must be pretty rewarding to have it move under its own steam.

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@Roman Ping me if you need wheels collected and stored dude. Can probably get them to swapmeet or even further north in August.

Be good to catch up. Can fairy you around if required.

Don't ever change John. Love your style.

Hello welders, I know its been asked multiple times. But I'd like to re-ask to get the latest opinion. I'm after a TIG. Would like to do Mild, Stainless, and very likely alloy in the near future. I've already got a MIG, so after a dedicated TIG machine. What of the current range would you people recommend? (I've seen Kicker's question on the previous pages but would like a few more suggestions if possible :)) Would it be best to not get one that does alloy? Will most likely be used for panel steel, exhaust pipes, and on occasion 5mm plate for brackets. Anything thicker will get the MIG treatment. So doesn't need to be a gajillion amps!. However, for alloy, I would likely be for repairing damaged motorbike engine cases and covers, so may need some amps for that?? Would like to hear pros and cons for DC only or AC/DC units vs price. Best to fork out for an AC/DC unit so i can weld ally in the future? I don't actually need to do any alloy welding immediately, will be mild and stainless for the time being, but don't want to trap myself and need another outlay when i want to do some alloy. Many thanks.

Was a great wee meet. Thanks!

Cheers @tortron. Have had my eyes on those for a while. They're probs fucked. And i've already got more ND tachos than i have the need for. They're the correct shape, just don't have the idiot light tubes. In Laverda news. I've sent head to Radax Australia for a rebuild. I've got all the gearbox bearings and gaskets to put bottom end together. Waiting to get cases back from some repairs. Then its dropping off for vapour blasting and i can start assembling the engine! I got the head vapour blasted before i sent it away. So here's some pics of that, cos picless posts are dumb.

If kicker can't make it for some reason, I can pop out one night this week/this weekend.

Be good to finally meet you Kicker.

Chair man, The cb 550s and 650s had 200kph ND clocks. (I see yours are nippon seiki, same as the 400s and 350s) The 750s and the Laverda have 220kph/140mph clocks (so the Laverda faceplates wouldn't fit). Have got a 220kph ND speedo in stock to cut up. Cheers for the offer though!

Thats the one i tried to acquire... Chair though dude. Appreciate it!