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

sfcpiet said:
That's a bit exaggerated Clem.

Waste disposal is the big issue. The traditional stuff can only be applied under very strict environmental restrictions. This brings about additional costs/expense that not all are prepared to carry. A slightly less toxic chrome-type product is now widely offered, as always, nowhere near as good as the good old stuff. Somebody better at chemistry than me could probably explain better.

Lots of small galvanisers of all sorts have disappeared here due to environmental restrictions. Good thing in many cases, lots of those were literal hell-holes.

Chromed car spares and accessories seem to be outsourced from all over the world, where restrictions are either not as strict or non-existant. Mercedes Benz bonnet stars for example have been manufactured in Turkey for many years, I suspect waste is probably dumped in the local creek... not really sure if the western "civilised" world can afford to support that sort of stuff for much longer, the results are plain to see and end up on everybodys' shores.

Chromers here are quite anal if you show up with used exhaust parts. But, top quality shops will do them, no problem. Just have to pay, it has become REALLY, REALLY expensive. Rechroming a single triple silencer costs considerably more than a complete new system.

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The mob I work for take all manner of toxic waste out to BFN west. It goes into a series of dams, pumped from one to another until the last dam. Fucked if I know how it works, but interesting.

The only load I took there was 34 tonnes of hospital bleach, purchased by the Gov during Covid, was being dumped because it was out of date??? Go figure

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Very clever bench you’ve got there Russ😀👍. Love the storage capabilities underneath the main deck. Well done😀👍
Tom

PS love the winch to get the bike on the bench. Vince ,you should take note, no working on the floor😂😂👍
 
Mate, I spent years on my knees working, quote I am not paying you to sit on your arse, end quote, and they're also not paying for my replacement knees after 40 years of wear and tear either. But it's not fun now in my tiny shed. I have a dirt bike lifter that acts like a centre stand but it's 50mm too tall to fit under the bike so it's getting circumcised as we speak. BTW I modified an ex-railway bench very close to exactly that for Marty to use including under bench storage, I found a 3.5m alloy plank he uses to wheel bikes onto it plus it's on caster wheels. Every shed should have one. I have a milk crate either side of the bike to save the knees.
 
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Vince said:
Mate, I spent years on my knees working, quote I am not paying you to sit on your arse, end quote, and they're also not paying for my replacement knees after 40 years of wear and tear either. But it's not fun now in my tiny shed. I have a dirt bike lifter that acts like a centre stand but it's 50mm too tall to fit under the bike so it's getting circumcised as we speak. BTW I modified an ex-railway bench very close to exactly that for Marty to use including under bench storage, I found a 3.5m alloy plank he uses to wheel bikes onto it plus it's on caster wheels. Every shed should have one. I have a milk crate either side of the bike to save the knees.
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I find these help: :D
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Laverda1000.de said:
Supposedly it it just a matter of preparation. Which costs, as Pete said. I talked to this guy

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who said they do it on a regular basis, but only if no replacement is available becauise they usually can't beat that price. Again as Pete said.
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One chromer once confided he'd bung one end of a silencer, fill it with water and bung the other. Much the same for headers. ;)

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I had a couple of seamed mufflers re-chromed years ago. One was easy, but for some odd reason the other just wouldn't come out of his Pickel tank clean. They are spares just in case but over the years they have blistered again just sitting in a tub in my shed.
 
mauricejota7604 said:
The chromer I use will do exhausts once his tanks are badly contaminated, its the carbon that comes out into the solution that is the issue?????
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My chromer said the same, except he adds that once the tanks are contaminated the finish is crap, so he doesn't want to contaminate his solution with my grubby exhausts anyway.
Not to mention the cost of handling (disposal etc?) of the nasty chemicals makes the whole exercise too expensive. It's a bit frightening to think what happened to the nasty chemicals when replating was cheap...
 
Andy said:
My chromer said the same, except he adds that once the tanks are contaminated the finish is crap, so he doesn't want to contaminate his solution with my grubby exhausts anyway.
Not to mention the cost of handling (disposal etc?) of the nasty chemicals makes the whole exercise too expensive. It's a bit frightening to think what happened to the nasty chemicals when replating was cheap...
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is that how silver birch trees got their name? I'm sure it was all just tipped out back or down drains
 
It's quite a bit harder to circumcise a cupboard than to make one from scratch, squeezing a power saw into odd spots can be tricky. It was made out of lovely timber, probably unobtanium these days.
 
When I bought my GT the PO gave me his wooden work bench/ lift. The legs at the end were hinged and the center legs were the pivot. Using that thing was extremely scary. I usually had someone spot me when loading unloading a bike. Now I have a Handy lift, electric model as I don't have a large enough air comp.
 
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