Take it apart Put it together

 

- Black Coffee -

 'Black Coffee' - is what I have named my Ed Gilkison Velocette Workshop Blog -

and will be using it for my image posting blog. I have thousands of images from postings that were deleted when I left Facebook,  and I will be slowly posting them on Black Coffee.

This will allow me to leave this blog - Ed Gilkison Velocette - to concentrate on workshop projects, and current activities.

 https://edgilkisonvelocetteworkshop.blogspot.com

I am still here, but no longer on Facebook-

I am still here, but have decided it best for me to leave Facebook.  

I have enjoyed Facebook, the many friends on board there, posting every image I could source to post onto the Facebook group Velocette Motorcycles,  as well as Facebook group The Velocette Workshop , By dropping off Facebook, all images I have posted will be automatically removed  - thousands I have posted over the years, together with the stories that accompanied the photos, drawings and images -  

Will be now be concentrating my efforts onto this blog - 

I have left the running of my Facebook group The Velocette Workshop, to my nephew Cade - and hopefully he will continue with it, if he decides to stay on the social media - Facebook  -

testing my new cell phone video capacity

 I recently had to replace my cell phone.  My new phone is an older Samsung 7 -

and took this video with it last Sunday - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riQ8pe8RLVw

Back in the shed! At Last

 Since Mom passed a month ago, been taking a bit of time off , to sort through her things , and am finally back in the shed now - and working through projects! 

Dan Barnett stopped in with his 1947 Webb girder forked Velocette MSS, 

The Smiths front wheel drive gearbox had popped out it's end cap, and gone missing, and my little job was to sort out another cap /plug to hold the gears in place. 

After scratching my ass, and fiddle farting around a bit, I finally came up with a simple fix.

I turned a bit of brass rod in the lathe to size, drilled and tapped it for a grease nipple, then drilled a couple tiny holes in the drive box case to take safety wire, while I had Dan, using my Bridgeport mill, machine four safety wire access notches in the plug's face. I made the plug a .002"  interference press fit. 

Sad news from Lakebay

 Sad news from Lakebay -

Mom passed away early this morning - October 15th

So lucky to have had her as my second Mom , for the last 30 plus years -

Home life happenings -

 

Very sad to report -

Mom has been in hospitol for over a week -

does not look good at all - has two cracked bones in her back, and has been in terrible pain . Now we learned she has pneumonia - fluid building up in her lungs.

She has both feet on that 'slippery slope' -

Hope we can get her home - as nursing homes do not allow visitors, and she would be in quarantine even there, as she needs to get out for dialysis three days a week. and would never be allowed to see family again - because of current Covid laws

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Photo of Mom, and my step sister Gretch - taken several years ago.

During good times - Hospital has allowed Gretch to see her today -