Almost an Oil Thread. Chains

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Vince

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Chain time for my 3c. It's been a while, and I am keen to try an X-ring. Anyone got a recommendation and the number of links required? Not changing sprockets this time. Rear steel looks fine. Also looking to buy an RK riveting tool; it looks pretty easy to use from this video.
 
DID 530ZVM-X
I'm on my second one, Vince. Changed the first after 20,000 miles. Largely, because I couldn't believe it had lasted that long.
Chains, back in the 20th century wouldn't last more than four figures. On one Factory Trip, I fitted a new chain and sprockets before I left, they were trashed by the time I got back, eight days and 3,800 miles later.
106 links, IIRC, on a 19 front, 40 rear sprockets.
Couldn't find availability in that length, so I got a 108 and shortened it, with a DID KM500R, as it was too much of a struggle for my old Whale breaker.
The 500R is a well made piece of kit and does a good job (see photos), not cheap though.

DID 530 ZVM-X Chain 2021.JPGDID KM500R Cutter Riveter.JPG
My current chain, 17,000+ miles in.
DID Joining Link.JPG
 
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Similar DID chain (VX3) but 520 on the SFQ - 14,000km and have hardly adjusted it, handling a lot more ponies than a stock SF. Also have the KMR500 - strong as buggery but not super easy to use. I end up grinding the pins back when shortening the new chain. And I cheat and use a split link - I have to use the tool to press the plate on before I can get the spring clip on so doubt I'll have any issues with it going AWOL.
 
Chains and oil?

Yes!

Running a DID 50VM for 32000km on my Triumph Sprint RS, single swing arm.
Sorry, no Laverda...
CLS-chain oiler from start, chain is in very good condition and will do another 20000km.
Perhaps 10% of available range of adjustment used.

But what is the point in the pictures attached?
:D
 

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Copper coating on rolls!

Extreme rape of rear brake, the abrasion caught by oil and hammered onto the rolls.
Now there is an addional wear protection.
Should be patented
 
I remember back in the 70s when we used to buy Reynolds chain in bulk from McPhersons Engineering Supply (Welshpool Rd, Vic Park). Specify the number of links, and they would cut it for you.
Up at the Lesmurdie Rd house, with 3 Laverda owners living under the same roof, the most likely thing you would ever find in the kitchen oven was a chain being baked up in a can of Duckhams; I can smell it now. Not the only thing that got 'baked' up in the hills.
 
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And the sheep! What was his name? Allan? Bruce?
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How soon we forget, and you had such a meaningful relationship with Ronald, as did others, and he was a wether (look it up); Obviously disregarded by the cretins from down the hill from the lowlands: a sheep was a sheep. Tstt, Tsstt. Shame.
Hey, Ronald was in high demand!
In retrospect, I now look back and question when Ronald had completed the challenge of mowing our lawn a foot high; the offers that came forth as an offer to take Ronald and let him eat/mow their lawn were many. I now have great remorse for the number of times I facilitated loading Ronald into the boot of a Kingswood or the back seat of a Falcon (a Valiant at the very least, a bit of class).
He always appeared happy when he was returned home. Ronald lived a long life and died as old mutton, per Dave Brewster. RIP, both of them. Long time ago.
Sorry, not Laverda-related, but it is: if you were there, a few from the Forum were, and are now in the 'Witness Protection Program'.
I have Photos.
 
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