Author Topic: Motomags - need advice and help and which way to go ? Pic's up (Read 2988 times)

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **on:** April 20, 2012, 12:03 AM »

Right so i just got back from picking up some Motomags - in very great shape bar one web snap/ missing

pic's up in the morning or so but a couple of questions

Who is good at fixing the web part /welding ?
Does any one have any spare web part that could be used to welded back on ? pretty please

Now cleaning them up - two ways to go - very light clean/polish ~ just so they shine a little bit but not too much ~or~ polish them up to match the chrome / can be done but hard work > so which of the two ways should i go ? let me know please

let me know

cheers B

Discostu · « **Reply #1 on:** April 20, 2012, 12:06 AM »

Which direction? I say go left

I hope this helps. Cheers stu.

oldschoolrb · « **Reply #2 on:** April 20, 2012, 12:07 AM »

this webbing

no not got any

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #3 on:** April 20, 2012, 12:16 AM »

That's the ticket right there - pm'd back and looks just the job

stu the only direction you will be taken is "SOUTH" and fast

oldschoolace · « **Reply #4 on:** April 20, 2012, 12:23 AM »

I recon a light buff or maybe a walnut blasting. Motomags look crap polished in my book

stidds · « **Reply #5 on:** April 20, 2012, 12:30 AM »

I saw those on t'bay, wondered who nabbed them.

Don't polish them up though, they were not built or meant to look that way and you will imo completely ruin them.

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #6 on:** April 20, 2012, 12:32 AM »

I like/love polished stuff but it's gonna be so hard for me not to keep going on these - they are clean, but i guess i just want them to be s bit more cleaner looking with a slight shine but not super polished

will get some pic's up

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #7 on:** April 20, 2012, 12:49 AM »

Quote from: Stidds on April 20, 2012, 12:30 AM

I saw those on t'bay, wondered who nabbed them.

Don't polish them up though, they were not built or meant to look that way and you will imo completely ruin them.

Yer had them on my watch list - thought i may as well ask if Nick had a price he would let them go at - he got back to me with a offer i couldn't refuse

And as the wife and i were near him looking at baby stuff, i got to pick them up - job done

I was surprised no one else put offers in - i think some thought it was under the radar and would put a small bid in at the end

They are sat in front of me - well one of them is on the goose sat in the lounge next to the TV in front of me - they need a clean but the more i look at them it's clear that they don't need to over polished (although would love to see what they look like mirror polished ) just don't know what to use with out going to far - peek, yes but only light i'm thinking ?

CD17 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 20, 2012, 07:18 AM »

Don't polish them up.

hunterdubber · « **Reply #9 on:** April 20, 2012, 07:31 AM »

Motomags - need advice and help and which way to go ?

Comes up often this one , but I think I've found the solution

Bendy put the wheel with the sprocket at the back end and the other should just fit in between those two long pieces of steel at the front

Job done

kalex · « **Reply #10 on:** April 20, 2012, 09:12 AM »

i don't think you can weld them as i think they have a high content of magnesium or some other high flammable stuff. the best thing i've seen on other restored motomags is araldite for alloy's. i've seen pics of someone in Oz doing this.

kungfunky · « **Reply #11 on:** April 20, 2012, 10:13 AM »

Quote from: kalex on April 20, 2012, 09:12 AM

i don't think you can weld them as i think they have a high content of magnesium or some other high flammable stuff. the best thing i've seen on other restored motomags is araldite for alloy's. i've seen pics of someone in Oz doing this.

Based on this advice I'd say get the welder out B

stidds · « **Reply #12 on:** April 20, 2012, 10:57 AM »

Quote from: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on April 20, 2012, 12:49 AM

Quote from: Stidds on April 20, 2012, 12:30 AM
I saw those on t'bay, wondered who nabbed them.

Don't polish them up though, they were not built or meant to look that way and you will imo completely ruin them.

Yer had them on my watch list - thought i may as well ask if Nick had a price he would let them go at - he got back to me with a offer i couldn't refuse
And as the wife and i were near him looking at baby stuff, i got to pick them up - job done

I was surprised no one else put offers in - i think some thought it was under the radar and would put a small bid in at the end

Good for you Bendy, I was watching them but only out of interest to see what they went for.

Rodgy1970 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 20, 2012, 11:21 AM »

Clean them up first, you might want to give polishing them and fixing them a swerve.

Autoglym motorcycle cleaner brings alloy and metal up well without polishing.

http://jbweld.net/index.php if you can find the bits to fix them.

griff · « **Reply #14 on:** April 20, 2012, 12:42 PM »

I advise putting up pics of the london ride before you start any other bloody jobs

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #15 on:** April 20, 2012, 01:10 PM »

I advise putting a finger up yer bum and them popping it in yer mouth and see how it taste

when i'm ready

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #16 on:** April 20, 2012, 01:29 PM »

1982 ?

bugger

so going back to the fixing of the spoke/web - any one done it before ?

kalex · « **Reply #17 on:** April 20, 2012, 02:18 PM »

like i said above you'll have to get another part of web and cut to fit then use araldite.

http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=195380

griff · « **Reply #18 on:** April 20, 2012, 02:30 PM »

Quote from: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on April 20, 2012, 01:10 PM

when i'm ready

fookin slacker - are you going for the record?

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #19 on:** April 20, 2012, 03:00 PM »

I have some thing that i need to sort first - now stop getting your knickers in a twist

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #20 on:** April 20, 2012, 11:05 PM »

any one kniow how to date them ? (year wise)

'82 maybe by 8 in the middle and then pointing to about 2 ?

sawzall · « **Reply #21 on:** April 21, 2012, 08:11 AM »

i think i might have a bit of webbing you can have

oldschoolace · « **Reply #22 on:** April 21, 2012, 10:47 AM »

Just an odd thought but one way to repair the webbing, barring the obvious replacement with another piece, might be to cast a mold of the section you need from elsewhere on the wheel in plaster of Paris.
Then with the mold clamped in place over the missing section fill it with either lead (the easy option) or aluminium (a bit harder to get to melting point but easy enough with the right torch)

oldschoolace · « **Reply #23 on:** April 21, 2012, 11:03 AM »

A very rough idea of how easy it is to smelt aluminium

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #24 on:** April 21, 2012, 11:52 AM »

Quote from: oldschoolace on April 21, 2012, 10:47 AM

Just an odd thought but one way to repair the webbing, barring the obvious replacement with another piece, might be to cast a mold of the section you need from elsewhere on the wheel in plaster of Paris.
Then with the mold clamped in place over the missing section fill it with either lead (the easy option) or aluminium (a bit harder to get to melting point but easy enough with the right torch)

cheers mate I did think of this way first but ! - would the alloy after smelting be strong enough to ride ? what impurities it would have and how long before it snapped - it would work if it was for a show queen - next would be to match it up in could and pattern - the original webbing already has the same structure and it may just be to cut and shut it with using the stuff above link (cheers rodriguez

) then it could be sanded off and smoothed in

just a thought so far ?

any one do this before ? any other ideas so i can see what is what before i do any thing ?

cheers B

Author Topic: Motomags - need advice and help and which way to go ? Pic's up (Read 2988 times)

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