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

Fitted a set of LJ's replacement / repro Paoli square petrol taps to my SF Mirage tank. Top quality stuff: indistinguishable from original.
 
Took my late model Laverda (Benelli triple) for a ride today. Ended up limping home for about 40km on 2 cylinders (performance probably down to measly 100 HP on 2 cyls  ;)). I think a coil might have failed. Stupid little stick coils that sit on top of the spark plugs. Apparently failures are common because they get fucking hot sitting there on top of the cylinder head.
 
Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond said:
now masking up to ACDC for tomorrows painting  :(
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I'been painting too.

Found a can of paint colour I needed in the garage. Opened it up, stirred it up, and took it through the house to where I was painting outside on the deck. I'm standing there brushing away, and at my feet are about 6 big drops of paint. FFS. Wipe it up with a rag, thinking I must have dropped some off the brush. I'd not even started painting again, more paint of the floor :o walk through the house, fucking paint drops all through the house!  :o

Get lots of rags, clean up house on the way back upstairs, only to find a big puddle of paint around the 4 litre tin. Lift up tin, there's a rust hole through the bottom, the striring must have been the last straw for the rusty base.  >:(

::) Explains why the white paint looked like a tinted shade of cream.

 
Dellortoman said:
Women folk tend to be rather unforgiving about that sort of thing.
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She should be happy when she comes home today and finds that I have emptied the dishwasher without having to be told.

Of course if she comes home early and finds an SFC swingarm and triples and some fenders in there that could all change ......
 
helicopterjim said:
She should be happy when she comes home today and finds that I have emptied the dishwasher without having to be told.

Of course if she comes home early and finds an SFC swingarm and triples and some fenders in there that could all change ......
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A man after my own heart. Two dishwasher tablets work better than one.

We have a spare dishwasher, I was thinking about using it for such circumstances. I thought of using kerosene in it, but the drying cycle could create an issue or two  :D
 
Set the heater element to high - flash dry the parts, and possibly the kitchen
 
I had a spare dishwasher at one time, it came from a building refurb job, and I installed it in my cellar, it was very, very useful, for final cleaning of engine parts, cylinder heads for instance,, items came out so much cleaner than hand washing, de-greaser, paraffin, etc, can achieve, I don't remember using dish wash tablets, but I must have, because when taking a head out of the washer, the iron parts are already coated in extremely light red corrosion, (drying in a hot, steamy and maybe salty atmosphere) nothing that a wipe of oily cloth wont solve, but annoying none the less, there is of course salt in the tablets to give your wine glasses the sparkle that you desire, I am sure I ran it without tablets and without slat in the pot (for water softening), but eventually it packed up and was scrapped, fun while it lasted. I now have an air powered industrial degreaser which was donated from a pal who does automatic transmissions, when he bought out a competitor and found it surplus, it is a marvellous machine and "pickles" the components without the use of any abrasive material at all, but lack of space means it is "to one side" and when needed is a chore to re-commission, and while it is doing its job which is best left for hours, the compressor is running continuously (Hydrovane) that is annoying as well.
CLEM
 
I've got a dishwasher as well clem it's a Benny twin tub and goes pretty well, does get a bet temperamental if you don't give it a good drink but hay ho
 
Took 1111 on her maiden voyage with Tom on his early 3C as company. All those long hours have got her back on the road. Did a lazy 150 odd k's

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Brett said:
Took 1111 on her maiden voyage with Tom on his early 3C as company. All those long hours have got her back on the road. Did a lazy 150 odd k's

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hi that looks like a British plate from 1977 ish and in good company to.
Regards Andy
 
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