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

motoddrob said:
Agree with Cam re: aluminium. Would have done it with MDF and finished with Paint. Much easier to work with.
Are you planning to use a polished alum. finish or paint when taking a mould off it?
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I'll just polis the alloy Rob. If nec, I'll give it a coat of something to get a super shiny finish.

Yeah, good points re material. But I don't have a router (only the router bit) and I wasn't gonna put MDF in the lathe! One of the main reasons I went with alloy plate is that I need to get the recessed holes for the screws and I can make inserts in alloy and bore holes for them in the plate. Flip it over, fit the inserts to the other side and make the other mould.

Also, I have bugger all experience making plugs and moulds so I'm inventing stuff as I go along. And the alloy plate was cheap ($15) and can be reused for some other thing.
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
I'll just polis the alloy Rob. If nec, I'll give it a coat of something to get a super shiny finish.

Yeah, good points re material. But I don't have a router (only the router bit) and I wasn't gonna put MDF in the lathe! One of the main reasons I went with alloy plate is that I need to get the recessed holes for the screws and I can make inserts in alloy and bore holes for them in the plate. Flip it over, fit the inserts to the other side and make the other mould.

Also, I have bugger all experience making plugs and moulds so I'm inventing stuff as I go along. And the alloy plate was cheap ($15) and can be reused for some other thing.
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Carry on then :D
 
The former ugly duckling has become a gem! The only thing that bothers me personally about RG models, is the fact, that the cylinder head
of this beautiful engine is hidden.

If she is your new own project, may I ask the question, what role she should play? Because if I remember correctly, you still have a Corsa,
right?

Cheers
Jo
 
Jo said:
The only thing that bothers me personally about RG models, is the fact, that the cylinder head of this beautiful engine is hidden.
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Well - on this one, even the whole engine is invisible...  :o (and no, I think the 2 on the work-bench are not the RGS but 180? engines; I might well be wrong though...)

:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

Not the cylinder head is hidden btw., just the cam cover...
 
I had to sell the Corsa to fund the move back home from Spain.
I have POP for scratching and the RGA/S will be for touring, hence the luggage rack.

I have several engines on the benches, series 1, series 2 and 120, 1000 and 1200.

I thought seriously about making my project into a 180 as I needed another crankshaft anyway. In the end I sourced a good 120 crank so she stays as a 120 (maybe one day...)
 
Courier turned up with the 1000 engine I bought from France so I put it in the van with the jolly nice CDI frame I bought from a nice guy on the ILOC site.
 
Add a bit of high-quality masking tape and that will reduce chipping by the jigsaw but not completely, makes pencil marks easier to see as well. I would cut leaving a good 5mm on and making a curved sanding block to sand the last 5mm off. Add masking tape to the saw base as well, they can scratch the crap out of the object being cut. Probably use the jigsaw to cut the curve required for the sanding block as well. Seems there is plenty of fibreglassing happening here as well, lots of Executive type mould talk on the weekend.
 
I manage fine without one.
If I was doing a lot of intricate cutting I would get one.
 
Tapped it, unwrapped it..however was not pure gold..
Finally got my hands on the 77 3CL . Seems I have a lot of work and a sharp learning curve ahead..first of which is how to log on to my flickr account.
 
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