My Malaga 1200

Paul Marx said:
The settings were probably about 400 C°.
Paul
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The cases would have been annealed between 300c and 410c, ( around 350c if you're using soap as a temperature telltale ) but likely the crystalline structures of the castings got a tad 'upset' by the combustion of the motorcycle. Petrol fires can generate temperatures of up to 2138c depending on the oxygen and fuel supply. I imagine the cases got only a light toasting though, otherwise they would have transformed into a puddle! Apologies for the anorak response, but my work involves the delivery of avgas which requires ADR category 3 qualifications (bulk flammable liquids).
 
RGS1000RGS said:
The cases would have been annealed between 300c and 410c, ( around 350c if you're using soap as a temperature telltale ) but likely the crystalline structures of the castings got a tad 'upset' by the combustion of the motorcycle. Petrol fires can generate temperatures of up to 2138c depending on the oxygen and fuel supply. I imagine the cases got only a light toasting though, otherwise they would have transformed into a puddle! Apologies for the anorak response, but my work involves the delivery of avgas which requires ADR category 3 qualifications (bulk flammable liquids).
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2 x 44’s please……😊
 
Last weekend I started an archaeological dig in my garage. made some room to work and dug out my engine crane. This week I took the dust covers off my mutant motor and decided to finish it off. It's 6 months since I downed tools in the freezing cold garage but that was enough time for me to lose the neutral switch and shims I had had on the table in my flat staring me in the face since I last posted.
I got sick of looking for them and pinched one from another motor instead. A few more little jobs done to finish off the motor and it was time to get it from my garage a few streets away back round to my flat and the 1st floor car park.
After a bit of a hunt around I noticed the builders had a nice trolley in their compound that would do the job so I borrowed it, craned the motor onto it and pushed it around the local streets like the silly old fool I am. I did get offered some help so I must have looked beat ha ha!
Good job it fitted in the lift mind you.
Here is the motor back in the frame, or should I say a motor back in the frame because there isn't much left of the original. I've rebuilt the carbs over winter so that's another job done.
I bought some 1200 side panels and a tail piece and inner from Mr Unobtanium but I'm loathe to use them on this bike. I am looking forward to bolting it all back together and trying to start it though.

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No Chris, someone has rewelded the silencer inlets to suit an RGS. I'll go round my garage and dig some more out.

Sorted now but the silencers are too good for this bike ha ha!
 
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They were scrap broken side panels and the horns are £5 (LOUD) Chinese ones so I just chopped the side panels to suit. I do have good stuff here but I am trying to use all the things that would go in the bin. The worst thing about it is that the SFC 1000 sold at Bonhams for £3600 and complete with every juicy extra known to man might have actually cost less.
 
pf1 said:
They were scrap broken side panels and the horns are £5 (LOUD) Chinese ones so I just chopped the side panels to suit. I do have good stuff here but I am trying to use all the things that would go in the bin. The worst thing about it is that the SFC 1000 sold at Bonhams for £3600 and complete with every juicy extra known to man might have actually cost less.
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Feel your pain Pat, I still cringe when I think about the SFC750 I could have bought for $2,500 in 1990 😢
 
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