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-Honestly, driving with 1000 kilogrammes of steel on a trailer is one of the scariest things I’ve ever done. But we got it safely to Oslo yesterday and with good help from Trond at BrÃ¥ten Bil (local sportscar workshop) and their forklift we managed to hoist it into place in the workshop. It’s still not in it’s permanent position, but at least I was able to hook it up and test it a wee bit! It spins like a cat (well, an angry cat, that is) and seems to be in great condition. When we picked it up in also scored a nice old drawing table (big!) with a drawing machine and two nice workshop chairs (vintage stuff). Better be carefull not to fill up the shop with more things now….
Yepp, a TOS FN22 from 1965. Complete with all the nice oddities that machines like these came with (tiltable/rotateable table, fixed table, slotting head, standard milling head, highspeed milling head, divider head with support and all the collets needed). It’s around a 1000 kilos, so I was’nt able to get it home today. Hopefully in a few days it’ll be in the shop.
A good day at the fleamarket a few days ago: A bunch of wooden file-handles, over 20 new files (high quality German ones), a good quality Eskildstuna 0-25mm micrometer, a Mauser caliper, a cute Spitzy model engine, a tiny Elga torch (never seen that brand in that size before), a short straight edge and last, but not least, the scoop of the day: a KAVO hanging drill with a flexible shaft and angled drill AND a Diprofil filing machine! That’ll make it a breeze to clean up lug edges!
Just got a shipment from the nice guys over at Phil Wood in California. Perfect finish as allways. It’s like a few hundred grams of Pre-war Italian sportscar engine parts. Totally dedicated, fantastic finish and performance that just says vroooooom. Ace!
Oh. All Phil Wood products are now available. Deliverytime is about a week.
A while ago I did a neat conversion of a 160mm Chris King Tandem axle to a 150mm bolt through for 12mm axle. A series of shots of the process can be seen here. Then another axle turned up from the deep woods of Sweden last week, and i gave it the same treatment. It turned out _pretty_ sweet:
Another nice job last week was a fix I did to an axle for a Burley child trailer. Burley have changed the design on this part, and was unable to supply older parts. Unfortunately I did’nt take a picture of this, but it turned out better than the original. And stronger.
The moral?
Throwing away things=Bad
Fixing things=Good!
Christian Bloom have been working hard on the new logo- and headbadge design, and we’re almost there. I’d say we’re at 99%. And I’m totally stoked on the design. Can’t wait to put this on my bikes. The plan is to have the headbadge die-cast with enamel for that “classy” look we all like. Stay tuned for more info.
Oh! The logo is 99% done as well. Just some minor adjustments left. Great looking, is’nt it?
