Resurrection of a wreck

John Watson · Post by **John Watson** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 4:24 pm

Progress has been a little slow, part of the reason is that my son-in-law had a heart attack 10 days ago so it's been a little chaotic recently, to say the least. He's had three stents fitted with one to come once he is fitter, his recovery is progressing at an amazing rate which is a great relief to us all.

Back to the present, the rear fender is looking a lot more like it should and I'm quite pleased with it, not absolutely perfect, but near enough that it won't stand out too much.

P2066267 by Happy Grandad2010, on Flickr

I bought a fuel tank for not too much money a few months ago, not too badly rusted inside so I gave it a soak with a Deox-C solution which not only cleared the rust, but also exposed a leak next to one of the chrome side cover mountings, I made up a small plate and brazed it into place this afternoon and it's currently sitting on it's side on my work bench with a half gallon of kerosene testing for a flaw in my brazing.

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 4:58 pm

Good progress!

G

John Watson wrote:Progress has been a little slow, part of the reason is that my son-in-law had a heart attack 10 days ago so it's been a little chaotic recently, to say the least. He's had three stents fitted with one to come once he is fitter, his recovery is progressing at an amazing rate which is a great relief to us all.

Back to the present, the rear fender is looking a lot more like it should and I'm quite pleased with it, not absolutely perfect, but near enough that it won't stand out too much.

P2066267 by Happy Grandad2010, on Flickr

I bought a fuel tank for not too much money a few months ago, not too badly rusted inside so I gave it a soak with a Deox-C solution which not only cleared the rust, but also exposed a leak next to one of the chrome side cover mountings, I made up a small plate and brazed it into place this afternoon and it's currently sitting on it's side on my work bench with a half gallon of kerosene testing for a flaw in my brazing.

Geoff Hastings · Post by **Geoff Hastings** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 5:21 pm

Looking good John, we should start a post called being creative with filler! I used car under seal under my mudguards to stop water penetrating any pin holes in the welds or filler.

Seadog · Post by **Seadog** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 6:45 pm

You do fine work, John.

John Watson · Post by **John Watson** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:12 am

Thanks, guys.

Geoff, I bought a Cub 90 as a box of bits around three years ago and the rear fender had rotted at the flare. I rebuilt it and when I'd finished, I lined the underside with a single layer of fibreglass, finished off with black gel coat for exactly the same reason. Looked quite smart.

John Watson · Post by **John Watson** » Thu Feb 22, 2018 11:16 am

A quick update on what I've been up to recently.

One way of keeping down costs on spares is to buy a piece of junk and spend time trying to make it into something useful, if it doesn't work, tough, nothing much lost. That's what I'm doing with a very poorly chain case I picked up for not a lot of money.

This is the really rough bit.

P2196278 by Happy Grandad2010, on Flickr

I traced out a template, then cut out a piece of steel to suit, then serrated the edge so I could angle the edges to match the original.

P2196282 by Happy Grandad2010, on Flickr

P2196286 by Happy Grandad2010, on Flickr

Cut out the case

P2206287 by Happy Grandad2010, on Flickr

Then tacked in the fresh metal with a couple of spots of braze'

P2206288 by Happy Grandad2010, on Flickr

I then turned my attention to the bottom section, cut it out and again replaced it with sound metal, tacked into place with braze again.

P2226289 by Happy Grandad2010, on Flickr

The clever bit will come when I return from S Africa in four weeks and attempt to bridge the bit in between with new metal.

Geoff Hastings · Post by **Geoff Hastings** » Wed May 16, 2018 5:06 pm

How's the rebuild going John, been very quiet for a while.