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Brewed in Padstow; didn't think it would travel well enough to reach Wales. Do you know how the beer got it's name?
 
It can't be the best beer in England as long as Timothy Taylor keeps brewing Landlord.  :D  Now owned by Molson Coors, and there's two piss poor beer brands right there.
 
AndyW said:
Brewed in Padstow; didn't think it would travel well enough to reach Wales. Do you know how the beer got it's name?
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The Doom Bar is the sandbank at the mouth of the River Camel estuary. The brewery's actually in Rock, t'other side of the river from Padstow. Been there, drank the beer (and got the T-shirt) :P :-*

PS Their Atlantic IPA is even better IMO ;)
 
Phil, I think none of those Pommy beers would be much good as ultrasonic cleaning fluids, but who knows? If you Google "ultrasonic cleaning fluids" you'll come up with several commercial suppliers each with their own range of products, nothing to say you can't have a solution good for aluminium alloy and a different solution for ... well, whatever you want to get clean. Bearing races maybe.
I found several in the UK.

Ken
 
AndyW said:
Do you know how the beer got it's name?
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It was named after the Doomben Race coarses 'Champions Bar' here in Brisbane Australia.

Head brewer was visiting whilst on holidays, and was having a beer in the Champions Bar, when he sent a telegram home telling his brewer chemist mates that he found
Fosters Larger was one of the best beers he had drank.

When intoxicated, he pissed in the bottle and sent it back to England and they replicated the contents as best they could. Hence Doombar tastes like stale piss.

Doombar is actually a combination of names from the very place where the beer was invented.

A lesser known fact, it's where the saying: "Been on the piss all night" came from.
It also explains why you blokes drink beer at the same temperature as the piss, from where the beer originated.  (bolt)

 
Phil said:
Guys, have had so many amazing offers of help, I can only say that I'm humbled, thanks everyone.

Phil, I'll definitely be onto you for those caliper seal kits.

Dellortoman, you'll get a PM soon for those files.

Actually managed to get an old lab grade ultrasonic cleaner from the uni today, it had been replaced with a new one and was in the WEEE dump ready to be chucked; so our tech told me that he never saw me take it and he doesn't even know me or know that I'd been there (there's a couple of pints of Doombar behind the union bar for him). There's a tiny leak in it that causes it to trip the electrics after about 15 mins use so my mates and I are getting together over a few beers tonight to think up a way to fix it (only because they all want to use it themselves). So hopefully it'll unsieze that valve and I'll have the carbs cleaned and stripped by the weekend.

Does anyone have experience of a good cleaning agent to use in an ultrasonic cleaner. I've used some soda crystals for its degreasing and surfactant qualities, seems to be working but wonder if anyone knows of a really good cleaner.
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Hi Phil

Strip each carb body as far as you can. Soak each carb body in Gunk Hydroseal 2 for about 24 hours each. The slides should then fall right out, and most of the crap will just rinse right out. Then run the carb bodies in your ultrasonic using HOT water and any sort of surfactant/detergent. I use Dawn dishwashing soap myself. Then, run the carb bodies in the ultra sonic again but in clean clear water only. Then blow out all the passages with compressed air. Works well for me.

There are various commercial ultrasonic fluids, if you go that way, make sure the cleaning fluid is compatible with aluminum and brass......

Paul LeClair
 
Thanks for the advice Paul, I've tried to find Hydroseal 2 in the UK but it looks as if it isn't available here. I've had a few people recommend (and I've seen on the internet) that boiling the carbs in lemon juice can work wonders for cleaning them up and releasing seized valve sliders. I'm going to give a try with an old and totally knackered Amal carb just as a test to see how it works out. If the results are okay I may very well go down that route. I'll let you all know how things go.

May find that I'm releasing a pleasant lemony fresh smell as I'm screaming her through the back roads !!
 
Try Deox-C  just citric acid in powder form really ,use it for removing rust from discs.Soak overnight might be worth a shout?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bilt-Hamber-Deox-C-Concentrated-Rust-Remover-Deox-C-Corrosion-1kg-bottle-/181161232758?hash=item2a2e0d0976:g:kRoAAOxyA9dSVRvF
 
chrisk said:
It was named after the Doomben Race coarses 'Champions Bar' here in Brisbane Australia.

Head brewer was visiting whilst on holidays, and was having a beer in the Champions Bar, when he sent a telegram home telling his brewer chemist mates that he found
Fosters Larger was one of the best beers he had drank.

When intoxicated, he pissed in the bottle and sent it back to England and they replicated the contents as best they could. Hence Doombar tastes like stale piss.

Doombar is actually a combination of names from the very place where the beer was invented.

A lesser known fact, it's where the saying: "Been on the piss all night" came from.
It also explains why you blokes drink beer at the same temperature as the piss, from where the beer originated.  (bolt)
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You wouldn't bee trying to weave  little Fine Cotton into this thread, wold you CK?  :) :D :D
 
Phil said:
... boiling the carbs in lemon juice can work wonders for cleaning them up and releasing seized valve sliders.
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When you've finished cleaning the carbs, pour the lemon juice off, add a bit of sugar syrup and Scotch and you've got a whisky sour. One of my favourite cocktails :P

LJ is correct. The active ingredient in lemon juice is citric acid. I've used it to dissolve rust and it does a good job. I haven't tried it on aluminium parts but if I remember my high school chemistry, most metal oxides should be soluble in weak acid so it's worth a try.

Rather than waste a bunch of lemons that could be put to better use (refer above) just buy some citric acid. You can get it in 1 kg packs on the internet for about the same cost as a bag of lemons. Buying it as plain old citric acid is a lot cheaper than buying it with the name "Deox-C" on the container.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classikool-1kg-Citric-Acid-Anhydrous-Food-Grade-Home-Bath-Bombs-Descaler-etc-/371569428355?hash=item5683438783:g:Ta4AAOSwAuNW3WxN
 
I'd try it on a disposable carb body or similar alloy first: it may work well on ferrous metals though might oxidise aluminium quite rapidly..
 
Brembo removed overhaul sets for the P4 32/32 calipers from the market many years ago, probably for liability reasons.
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Gutsibits in UK sells Brembo seal/oring repair kits for 30/34 calipers  www.gutsibits.co.uk for about ?30ea caliper  but if you search around you can get some good calipers via Ebay which probably OK as is.

Alternatively they have brand new 2 pot F08 for ?118ea for a more 'original' look

choices, choices..!!



 
Clumber981 said:
Gutsibits in UK sells Brembo seal/oring repair kits for 30/34 calipers  www.gutsibits.co.uk for about ?30ea caliper  but if you search around you can get some good calipers via Ebay which probably OK as is.

Alternatively they have brand new 2 pot F08 for ?118ea for a more 'original' look

choices, choices..!!
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That's cool.  Price is a bit steep for a couple of rubber snippets... but, guess it's OK if the choice is to have a rider or a static display.

The official Brembo importer for Germany doesn't stock them.  Can only get the piston and seal sets for the racing equivalent, these don't have dust seals fitted.  Piston and seal set costs less than ?30!

piet
 
Dellortoman said:
Rather than waste a bunch of lemons that could be put to better use (refer above) just buy some citric acid. You can get it in 1 kg packs on the internet for about the same cost as a bag of lemons. Buying it as plain old citric acid is a lot cheaper than buying it with the name "Deox-C" on the container.
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I always bought citric acid in Boots for cleaning my carbs.

I jest  ;). It was really for homemade lemon squash. I ask for it in the local chemist here in Spain and they order it in for me. I get funny looks and am asked what I want it for. I guess it's a sign of the times.
 
Reminds me of when I was a kid. I've always had a taste for sour citrus flavours. I used to make lemon cordial syrup from water, sugar, lemon essence and citric acid. My mum would buy the citric acid for me at the grocer's shop (no supermarkets back then). Local grocer shops in those days had things you never see in supermarkets now, like starch, borax, glycerine, Bex powders, rolls of black and white camera film, and other interesting things.
 
Like laudanum and tincture of cocaine. I don't recall much of my childhood apart from flying on my magic unicorn to Neptune and other interesting places  :-X.
 
Like laudanum and tincture of cocaine. I don't recall much of my childhood apart from flying on my magic unicorn to Neptune and other interesting places  :-X.
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Where on Ripper Street did you live?
 
Well head and barrel are now off. Nothing too bad, bit of cleaning up required and I'll get them soda blasted while I'm at it. Bore is good so just had a price from a local company for a re-hone at ?25 and ?4 per seat if the valve seats need recutting which I thought wasn't too bad on a 24 hr turnaround.

Rings on two of the pistons were well gummed in so a whole new set of rings will be going in, who's offering the best price per set of std rings?

Base gasket is looking good, can they be reused??

Inlet valve diameter is a tad over 39.5 mm and exhausts are 35 mm so it looks as if the inlets have been opened up.

One little problem was that the camshaft centre support was snapped, the lower half. The break was old so must've happened when it was last worked on .....tut, tut Motodd!! Anyone got a replacement?

And why do they tell you that the head and barrel can be removed in the frame in the manual?!?!? That's a bloody big CAN, Jeez what a job. By the time I'd removed half the studs I was thinking I'd have been better off lumping the engine out of the frame!
And those bloody studs. What part of Tazmania do they thread into??? I was winding away on them for bloody hours before they came out and when they did come out I could have sworn I heard someone say 'Strewth'.

Also found a nice second hand pair of P34s on ebay so they'll be replacing the old front calipers (nice gold ones too  :D) and before any other bugger asks, YES I have replaced those shitty bolts in the front Astralites for nice shiney ones.
 
Well! It was stated that taking head off is an 'engine out job'.
To be honest, it isn't a massive job - just tricky.

http://www.laverdaforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,94567.30.html

While you are at it you might want to timesert the engine casings for the studs going back in.
 
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