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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 Bråten 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?
