I should do these updates more often
Well lets be having them updates!
Rg125f first, box of clean bits, the box of dirty bits is quite large..
painted the top yoke a few times. i should not be allowed paint.
filled the dents in the spare tank i got, it’s still low, but IDGAF
Hammerite paint job, laid it on a bit thick and forgot to use a roller so it’s terrible. gotta flat it back and do it better. not properly but better.
Forgot about this, happened a long time back, belted it round with a large hammer, took a photo but i dropped the camera and knocked the battery out as it was writing it. promise i’ll get one next time.
Head, badly in need of modernization, if there is enough meat we can do an angled squish and a bathtub chamber. if not i’ll buy an insert, make a steel cage and 3d print to hold the water in.
Next!
Lifan monster 120, advertised as a 125 (insert joke about penis size)
we have a 27mm inlet valve on this so an appropriate carb is needed. mikuni DBS28, cheaper to buy a bank of four then one.
ah didn’t need that hi comp piston
is that a rice grain in my engine?
Beautiful
On to the Wifeys Dax.
engine was ripped out for new race engine.
what cruel bastards restrict a 50cc four stroke? this is the second washer we found…
Frame repair.
new chain and sprockers, bit oh cleaning of the wheel too.
de badged! and a new engine, 86cc single speed out of a childs quad.
a spin reveals that a straight pipe 8000+rpm doing 50kmh is not all that much fun.
Stickys!
also much taller, should help with gearing.
that exhaust pipe is dangerous to small birds and single pane windows.
need a pipe, stock is fine, but it have a cat in it and is too short for the new taller engine. chop! grind booger welds, insert rusty crap pipe.
looked well. no idea how it sounds, we still have to fix the loom, it eats cdi boxes, probably the tank rubbed a short into the loom.
Misc:
New race head, actually has a 52mm combustion chamber. huge head off a vintage thingy for scale.
got the arcade cabinet looking tidy, ditched the fancy router and did it manually.
more t-moulding
stickys for my dads skyteam ace 125, stock is so bad.
when you go on hols, take a ferry, and discover an arcade where your mate Stephen Casey has been.
Got a vice! had to clean the paint off the runners under neath before it slid smoothly.
rebuilt my numbpad for the acade, lots of trimming this bit down to get the case to close properly, then glued to the face of the cabinet, works great! can’t decide what buttons do what in the config yet..
TerriCab #4
Very long time no update, so now there are lots of updates, because i never stop taking photos of things with my crap phone:
kept working on the old pc speaker amp,
replaced many old crumbly connections.
added a soundcard, motherboard gave out about that, rubbish toshiba.
gave up and bought this! way better, no pops crackles or other ear shredding sounds.
While i was buying things, it’s fun, but does not save your score.
Back to to wood work:
Shed got a light!
TerriCab got more reliable WiFi!
Card didn’t fit so great so a standoff needed the chop.
Painted the monitor bezel
More to come,
TerriCab #3
More arcade wood work! cut out at rear for air flow and cables.
Monitor is in! yeah not exactly huge and it was a bit of work to get the screen parallel to where the perspex will go, used two bits of rotten decking underneath and an old pink shelf to lift the back thats on it third life now, last used as a cradle for the baby!
right now the monitor is in the center and i’ve been checking all week to see if the mdf will sag, no sag so far anyway, fingers crossed.
weathers been difficult…
Sound, yeah i could very cheaply pick up a tiny amp and some reasonable speakers, but wheres the fun in that?
I can’t remember where these PC speakers came from, i kept them for ever since the head phone jack is amplified! health and safety? best left in the mid nineties, right where these things came from.
pictures are in reverse order, the six pin potentiometer , b1k, is very crackly, so i just bypassed it. and because i don’t own a solder sucker i sniped the legs off it afterwards. tiny speakers will be replaced by whatever i scavenge. may replace transformer with something newer just to practice my electrical skills. Judging by how rough the board is I may be getting plenty more practice.
TerriCab #2
Well more stuff done. Stuck some plastic feet on, a chopped up chopping board, on the base of the cab and got it upright with out breaking anything!
The comp is ready ish to go in, still playing with wake-on-lan
Super sticky tyres from japan for next years nifty fifty, bt-39-ss, the ss is the important bit!
Got a real keyboard, replaceable cap and switches, metal case, blinky leds, but more importantly really loud blue switches!
TerriCab
TerriCab, nice name for the latest project, been a while with babies, work and winter(s) so lets get back to doing a few things.
first the backlog, Aixam is still not up and running, seems to be a dead ESC.
so i obviously ordered an upgrade! course the batteries are dead now, so it’s still sitting there.
Cbr got fresh tyres, badly needed
need more free days to get the chicken strips off
nifty fifty 2018 went a head, great race, except the bit where it got called early and i didn’t get to go out. 🙁
and on to TerriCab, i do have some other pictures, it’s the basic shape of a zaxxon cab, can i find those pics? nah.
so lets skip a few step and head to the feet design! MDF soaks up any moisture so putting it straight onto the garage concrete floor is not a good idea, wheels are the best solution, but they cost money, i’ll use a random feed plastic feed bag as a damp proof membrane and two other bits of normal wood
is any of the random pots of paint left around the house non-water based?, no but this can of stone chip seals things nice.
gotta buy a super cheap plastic chopping board to go underneath the feet again, should slide around great.
