Recent content by Dewd

I should add that this was all taught in the early 90's when it was all based around LO31 and a join was actually a simple trig calcualtion using Sin and Cos.

When we were When we were taught to do Joins and Polars, there were no spreadsheets, and we actually became pretty quick at doing them on a normal scientific calculator. Then I got my first Sharp PC-1403 Pocket Computer we wrote programs in BASIC to do Joins, Polars, Re-sections, area by...

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Nice looking 200 there. Looks to be in good condition for it's age.

Let me check what is in the piles and boxes......

Hi Yes. My son and I have done a resto-mod type deal on one and it is pretty cool. Thread here - https://wilddog.net.za/threads/yamaha-xt200-ridden.164251/ I have successfully bought a few suspension parts from www.partzilla.com. Partzilla has a fantastic feature that when you find the...

Full bike pic

Some fettling and a few coats of Hammerite later.

Dammit - I had arranged to go buy all the pieces that guy had, then as I was about to leave home, he messaged me to say one bike had gone - I decided to pass on what was left.

I've used EvapoRust on small parts.  Found it to work VERY well.  More than happy with the results.

No.  It's just 1 x layer of 18mm shutterply as that is what I had.

That's how we are holding stuff down at the moment.

This is on my son's 1983 XT200, and is only used as a school commuter at this stage.  The idea of the rack is for days when he needs to take normal school bag, kit bag for sports practice and his EGD (what I always knew as TD) drawing board. So I was trying to keep it as streamlined as possible...

Thanks.  This cheap plywood (shutterply) had lots of tearout where the holes were drilled and voids between the layers are visible in places.  I probably should have drilled the holes before bevelling the edges.  It's more of a test to see if the idea works or helps.  If the carrier even becomes...