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Post by bagga on May 11, 2018 20:17:25 GMT -5
brackets are plated. i'll get some pics on Saturday.
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Post by oldchopperguy on May 11, 2018 22:42:39 GMT -5
Bagga,
Sounds like a great lighting assembly! One thing I always loved about Hogs (even the old 6V 74's) was they had PLENTY of battery and generator to run all the lights you'd ever want!
These days, I've had great results replacing the older incandescent bulbs with LED's. Nice and bright, use little juice (a real boon on toy-battery scoots) and you can make a "clear" lens light ANY color you want with a colored LED.
Please do post pix!!!
Leo
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Post by bagga on May 15, 2018 14:55:38 GMT -5
ocg, i need 1 more light on each side in the middle of the new bracket. not wired in yet, just for looks now. i'm angling them on the side because that's how i like it.
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Post by oldchopperguy on May 15, 2018 23:22:23 GMT -5
Oh, BAGGA...
I don't just LIKE it... I LOVE it!
What memories that bike kindles... Only thing missing is wide-whites, left just a tad "yellowed". Then it's perfect... LOL!
Sweet ride: enjoy it a LOT while you're young enough to avoid arthritis!
Ride safe,
Leo
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Post by bagga on May 16, 2018 5:14:00 GMT -5
the old 85 came with narrow white walls so that's what i'm sticking with. if it had wire spokes then the wide whites would be the way to go but with the cast wheels i like the narrows better. the empty spot in the middle of those brackets is bugging me. it has to get filled in and wired up. i put LED's in the bullets yesterday, now i wait for 2 more so i can finish it up.
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Post by bagga on May 17, 2018 20:18:32 GMT -5
side angled lights are wired and working,
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Post by oldchopperguy on May 18, 2018 1:26:56 GMT -5
Bagga,
I hadn't thought about your Hog having alloy wheels... You're right. Wide whites would be "out of character"... LOL! My 1970 still had wires, with cadmium-plated spokes and black painted cast-iron hubs and brake drums. Talk about "old-school"... Any lights including carbide or kerosene would have been OK... HeHeHe...
Lights on bikes are as traditional as Christmas-tree lights! Little boys from 9 to 90 find them irresistible... Me included!
The one conscession to "modernity" I can live with is converting to LED. LED's are SO bright and clean that they are really better than incandescent bulbs and use less juice.
Keep those pix coming!
Leo
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Post by bagga on May 18, 2018 20:20:43 GMT -5
speaking of cast iron, we use cast iron "griswold" frying pans exclusively here. i haven't used a pan with teflon in about 20 years.
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Post by oldchopperguy on May 19, 2018 2:16:03 GMT -5
Hey, cast iron makes food taste "period correct"! Woo-HOO! Nothing better, especially when cooked over a campfire...
Back in the early seventies, I was fortunate to be chosen as a HD owner to test-ride a prototype bagger that seems to never have made it to production. Very cool and fun!
After the test-ride, we got a Milwaukee factory tour and I still remember old experts at least in their late seventies assembling frames. The fork crown, rear section for axle/brake, engine mounts and other parts were CAST IRON and the steel tubes were fit into them and BRAZED in place.
All done by eye, and minor imperfect line-ups were corrected with a torch and huge brass mallet. Somewhere I still have my treasured "Factory Visitor" badge.
All the frame goodies were cast iron and steel tube, brazed together. I don't think any welding was involved in the frame assembly at all. Probably the same process and same employees from the EARLIEST days of HD production!
Yeah, CAST IRON RULES!
Gotta love it... I doubt if today's Hogs use any of that 19th century tech...
Ride safe!
Leo
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Post by bagga on May 19, 2018 5:41:46 GMT -5
a friend of my son is a cook. he ate breakfast here once or twice. we had him make breakfast for us and he was saying he could taste everything that was made in the pan before the breakfast he made. we're use to the cast iron cooking so we're not aware of that.
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Post by oldchopperguy on May 20, 2018 22:59:53 GMT -5
a friend of my son is a cook. he ate breakfast here once or twice. we had him make breakfast for us and he was saying he could taste everything that was made in the pan before the breakfast he made. we're use to the cast iron cooking so we're not aware of that. Hey, works for me!
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Post by bagga on May 21, 2018 6:08:47 GMT -5
i bought this small rider for cutting my lawn and my neighbor's lawn. i needed something to hold my ear muffs and weed eater batteries. the sportster saddlebag was sitting in the garage for a couple of years so i removed the bracket, drilled 3 holes in the mower and bolted it up.
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Post by oldchopperguy on May 22, 2018 3:15:08 GMT -5
Bagga,
A Sportster bag on a lawnmower! The EPITOME of classic recycling! Trouble is, NOW it needs fringe, cat's-eye reflectors and cluster of lights!
I wonder if anybody has ever built a vintage bike themed mower? Not really as weird as it seems. The boys on "American Chopper" built a hardtail chopper around a Briggs & Stratton V-Twin for, if I recall, Dixie Chopper mowers. It was COOL! They said it performed as well as a stock Pan-Head!
Could be that a mower could be "reverse-engineered" to a bike theme. Something to keep one busy over the winter! Ah, maybe I'm just getting old and senile.
Mow safe!
Leo
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Post by bagga on May 22, 2018 7:53:39 GMT -5
i asked mrs. bagga if she had a wire basket for the muffs and batteries. the one she had was kind of girly so i decided to go with the bag.
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Post by bagga on May 22, 2018 8:00:16 GMT -5
mrs. bagga has a 4 day weekend every other week. i don't mind cutting the grass but when she has her long weekend it ends up being all day every day with her hands in the dirt. tending to the flowers and weeding is not my kind of fun.
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