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I somehow missed this the first time around.

Roady: I have had a wooden fork cap tool like that for years but I have never gotten around to taking a pic of it. Your drawing explains it just fine so I might steal it to use on the CX forum the next time the subject comes up.
BTW: Here is a more refined version made & sold by Fibonacci on the CX forum
http://cx500forum.com/forum/selling-buy ... -tool.html
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Mike: I have a similarly modified socket for the swingarm nuts. If you don't weld the handle on you can use it with a torque wrench....
I have another of a different size for the clutch nut too.

I will have to take a pic of some of my special tools when I am in the shop later. In the meantime, here are some pics of what the shop looked like after I spent a couple of weeks tidying and putting up shelves & bins a couple of years ago. It is a lot less tidy now so I guess I will need to do it again this spring :roll:
shop April 2013 1.JPG
Shop April 2013 2.JPG
Shop April 2013 3.JPG
The last one shows the most commonly used item in the shop. It is on whenever I am out there, streaming audio and occasionally looking up stuff to do with what I am actually supposed to be working on or viewing PDF manuals. It is also handy for ordering parts right now before I forget.
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As promised:
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- I made the battery charger in 1976 from parts I had on hand. It still works as well as the day I put it together.
- You can see the master cylinder hanging in the screwdriver rack right in the corner in one of the pics above. When I need to work on a master cylinder that isn't on a bike I clamp this m/c in the vise and use it to pump the piston(s) out.
- The banjo bolt with a zerk in it is for when the piston(s) are too stuck for the m/c to move.
- I have some old, cheap wrenches that I keep for making special ones out of. The open end ones are for getting at specific bolts on the sidecar where there isn't clearance for a full length one. The 1 1/8" socket is for the swingarm lock nut (fits both bikes). The 15/16" socket is for the 650's clutch locknut (not sure if it will fit the 'Wing)
- The thread chaser is an old spark plug that I removed the electrode from and cut 4 grooves in the threads with a cutoff disc in an angle grinder.
- M20-1.5 oil drain plug - flywheel puller for CX/GL500/650.
- The Spark tester is an off the shelf automotive item but I ground the male end so that it will engage with a bike plug cap and put the insert from a bike plug cap in the female end so it will work on bike plugs.
- The brake piston compressor is also an automotive tool. Next to it are a fender washer that is used for pushing on one piston and a piece of flat steel that lets it push both pistons at the same time. I use this when cleaning up calipers without disassembling them.
- The large pin vise is a chuck from some sort of machine (I have no idea - it was ins my Dad's shop when I inherited). I use it any time I want to turn a drill bit by hand. It is shown with the bit I used to clean out the holes for the pins that hold the pads when I did Eccles' front brake a few weeks ago.
- This wet stone is used for cleaning up mating surfaces after I have scraped the gasket off. I do not use it for sharpening tools because that would wear the surface unevenly.

This is my home made buffer. It normally has a wheel on each side but I found I kept hitting the second wheel while I was buffing the forks so I removed it while I did them.
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there is a part of me who has less than benign feelings for you all with OCD shops..... anim-cheers1 shakehands
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A tidy shop is the sign of a sick mind.
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Oldtech wrote:A tidy shop is the sign of a sick mind.

AMEN lolol lolol lolol
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Hey! It took me more than 2 weeks to get my shop that tidy...


And about a week of working in it to make it look normal again :orange
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Oldtech wrote:A tidy shop is the sign of a sick mind.
In that case I am perfectly healthy
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yeah I spotted it too, word police pedant

Funniest thing to me when I looked at my photo was the unintended position of the label, itself.
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G'day to Everyone! :-)

I might have posted these earlier ???

But here goes. ........ To remove the nut on the final drive input shaft and to undo that big ring.
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Then when you open up the speedo or tacho to unjam/lubricate/zero the clock or whatever, the little Aluminium tabs cam into the and hold the outer ring in place so you can tie-wire them up.

Peter :-)
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Another thing I have been doing is to convert 4 drawer filing cabinets into 12 drawer cabinets, I pick them up cheap from the recycle yard as lots of businesses are converting to digital filing and tossing these out. Excellent for keeping things in order.

Peter :-)
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Neat.
I have filing cabinets in the shop but I just use one drawer for storing manuals and the rest for large items.
Mr. Honda ('83 GL1100/Dnepr) summer How a motorcycle evolves thread
The Famous Eccles ('84 CX650EI/VeloUral) winter Never Ending Build (CX500forum)
Click: Colour schematics for all GL1000 & GL1100 and GL1200 standard models plus instructions on how to download the full size version
"A guy with two sidecars can't be all bad." - Cookie
Another guy with two sidecars..... Hmmmm... must be something to that....
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