Re: What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?

Ahh , Patrick battin above ya weight there mate  ;)    hands and heals in the saddle later ??

Half ya luck , and ya got a winner home too by the looks.  8)
 
Dellortoman said:
Ooh goody - a bodge!
Hmm ... what could it be? Cornflakes packet base gasket? Tips of valve stems filed down?
C'mon, lets hear about it so we can all pass judgement. :D
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The factory manual says in an emergency you can re-use the head gasket after rubbing it with hot linseed oil, so get yourself down the cricket club Andy.
 
3patC said:
The factory manual says in an emergency you can re-use the head gasket after rubbing it with hot linseed oil, so get yourself down the cricket club Andy.
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Cricket Club? In Townsville?? more chance of encountering Cannibals than Cricketers up here..

In the good old days I recall leaving composite head gaskets to soak overnight in hot water (well, it was hot for a while) before reusing.. Linsdeed oil eh? does that cause the COPPER (hear that Cam?) flame ring to swell any? was hoping to 'shim' the flame rings: all I managed to find so far was some copper wire from the scrap metals dealer..
 
AndyW said:
Cricket Club? In Townsville?? more chance of encountering Cannibals than Cricketers up here..

In the good old days I recall leaving composite head gaskets to soak overnight in hot water (well, it was hot for a while) before reusing.. Linsdeed oil eh? does that cause the COPPER (hear that Cam?) flame ring to swell any? was hoping to 'shim' the flame rings: all I managed to find so far was some copper wire from the scrap metals dealer..
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Now Andy, bit of license there I fear. Plenty of cricket played in Townsville - its not only Mad Dogs and Englishmen that go out in the midday sun you know :LOL:
Mind you its a rare thing for anyone to actually oil a cricket bat these days. Linseed Oil these days is the domain of the outdoor furniture afficianado :P
 
Boiled linseed oil is used on steam turbine casing faces for sealing very high pressures!
There is no gasket as such - just face to face with the oil inbetween. Two almost perfectly flat faces with some 'spring' built in.

The oil semi-solidifies with heat and seals almost indefinitely with any luck.
Comes apart easily.
 
we did at one time use boiled linseed oil for building cast iron boilers, the type where you bolt together any number of "sections" like a sliced loaf of bread to achieve a given output of heat, I am talking about really big things, tall enough so  that you can stand up inside, the sections are joined using a tapered nipple that allows the boiler to grow and shrink with heat/cold cycles, and the linseed oil on the nipples was a brilliant seal, as long as you cleaned up the ground surfaces with a spirit before hand, you can also find it in the threads of the bonnet on almost any brass gate valve, no gasket juts oil on the threads, and capable of withstanding very high pressures and temperatures.
CLEM
 
Rode to work.
Got off the boat yesterday morning in Zeebrugge after a lovely 4 day trip through northern England.
The SF2 ran faultlessly. I had a bit of a paranoid moment getting off the boat in Hull Friday morning. There was a terrible rev related noise. Turned out that the tank cap was open under my tank bag.
The bike prefers rolling secondary roads to town  :D

Paul
 
Thought I would show some progress on my non-Laverda restoration.



In many ways the design is superior to the triples (straight frame tubes, weight low down, slim), just let down back in the day by fragile bearings and spaghetti wiring. This generation is an improvement, with Bosch ignition, but some of the electrical connections (as standard) are iffy.
Inside, the engine is like a jewel.
I remember seeing various silver/blue and then black/gold versions thundering round Knockhill back in the late 70s, chasing and being chased by Jotas, GSX1100s, the odd Le Mans and so on. Sounded braw.
 
The bello windcheater was VERY welcome on Port Philip Bay (Melbourne) this evening!

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OI, surely that's better than parading a stubbie cooler around the races with a bunch of local slappers like Rowdypat!! I even had dinner with the Commodore of the Royal Melbourne Yacht Cllub who happened to recognise the brand and took me outside to see his BSA after which we only talked bikes! So fuck you  :P :P:-

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