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From: Jordan on 27 Sep 2007 20:19
munchausen wrote:
> Looked at a 2nd hand bike. appears 2 have been left in the sun
> every day. The faces of the gauges are all milky.
> anyone had any experience with this ? Are they stuffed or can they
> be fixed/improved ?
> M.

Isn't it crummy that they make gauges that do that?

A repair would involve a new lens, which means removing the old one,
which, if it has a plastic housing would have been molded in place and
is east to crack. I'm told pro repairers have machinery to cut the old
lens out without damaging the housing.
There's a bloke in Blacktown, Sydney, who doesn't advertise.
He does high quality repairs and makes replicas of some old gauges.
He has overseas customers, so mail order is no problem.
Email me (correct the obvious spelling error in email address) for
contact info, if interested.
From: munchausen on 28 Sep 2007 19:01
Jordan wrote:
> munchausen wrote:
>> Looked at a 2nd hand bike. appears 2 have been left in the sun
>> every day. The faces of the gauges are all milky.
>> anyone had any experience with this ? Are they stuffed or can they
>> be fixed/improved ?
>> M.
>
> Isn't it crummy that they make gauges that do that?
>
> A repair would involve a new lens, which means removing the old one,
> which, if it has a plastic housing would have been molded in place and
> is east to crack. I'm told pro repairers have machinery to cut the old
> lens out without damaging the housing.
> There's a bloke in Blacktown, Sydney, who doesn't advertise.
> He does high quality repairs and makes replicas of some old gauges.
> He has overseas customers, so mail order is no problem.
> Email me (correct the obvious spelling error in email address) for
> contact info, if interested.

Thankx, but a closed inspection of the bike revealed heaps more
needing attention :-(
M.
From: Jordan on 28 Sep 2007 20:36
munchausen wrote:
>
> Thankx, but a closed inspection of the bike revealed heaps more
> needing attention :-(

Just curious - is the bike a Suzuki?
From: munchausen on 29 Sep 2007 18:20
Jordan wrote:
> munchausen wrote:
>>
>> Thankx, but a closed inspection of the bike revealed heaps more
>> needing attention :-(
>
> Just curious - is the bike a Suzuki?

No a honda of 84 vintage.
M.
From: Zebee Johnstone on 29 Sep 2007 18:33
In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:20:51 +1000
munchausen <baron_munchausen(a)internode.on.net> wrote:
> Jordan wrote:
>> munchausen wrote:
>>>
>>> Thankx, but a closed inspection of the bike revealed heaps more
>>> needing attention :-(
>>
>> Just curious - is the bike a Suzuki?
>
> No a honda of 84 vintage.

OK, so it is now definitely an old bike, and is inching into "as
found" status.

Meaning there will be a bunch of little stuff needing doing. If you
are lucky the bike will be pretty well original and only easily
available bits will be missing or damaged. Faded clocks are nothing,
although if one is faded and one isn't then that's very definitely
crash damage.

You either buy it as a cheap hack so cosmetics and lack of originality
don't matter, or you buy it as a future "look at my classic" bike and
so want as much originality as possible, followed by good major
mechanicals unless there's a solid aftermarket. Then you trawl the
wreckers looking for as many spares as you can find, especially
cosmetics.

Then in 10 years it is definitely a "classic", and people start to
admire it, 10 years after that they are envious.

Pick the bike of course, a bike that was admired in its time or else
has become a cult later. An early 80s SR250 is the BSA Starfire of
its day.... But then who'd have thought people would be paying good
money for Bantams?

Zebee

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