Next time you build one of these, you should really try and hunt down a 1950s Sturmey-Archer hub dynamo rim. They are MUCH, MUCH better than the bottle jobs. The voltage they put out is stable and won't rise going fast (and by fast I mean like 12mph) like the bottle dynamos do. They won't wear on the tire and they are much more efficient. They put out 6vac at 500ma at maximum (3 watts) and only put maybe a 5 watt load on the pedals. IOW, you really can't even feel them, while the bottle dynamos put a much larger load on the system and you most certainly can feel them. The bottle dynamos aren't built very well, either the old ones or the ones they make today. They burn out easily and they have no bearings or at least no serviceable bearings. The Sturmey-Archer Dynamo hubs are very easy to rebuild, you just put new grease and ball bearings like you do with any other hub. A bonus is they are vintage. They have been making them for many decades, I think back to the 40s.
Red light is Port side of a boat. White is on the back of a boat. This is one of the coolest gas bikes I have seen.I do like your others but this one is for me
One "secret" that I've discovered for sweat soldering is "tinning flux", it actually has solder paste in it so when you heat it up there is already solder in the joint and you don't have to rely strictly on capillary action to suck the solder in. I use the lead free stuff for household plumbing, don't know if they make the old PB/SN type that solders so well.
Mustie1, you do GREAT WORK, and I appreciate everything you do. (let me pass a little soldering trick to you. They make an all aluminum finned clothes-pin that you can clip between your work area and what you don't want getting un-soldered clip 2 on, so all degrees of surface area are contacted. This dissipates the heat safely. You can purchase them in electronic parts stores. Again, I appreciate you. Bill, from Tn. 🇺🇸
See Mr. Carlsons Lab (electronics). He has a great and easy mod to a Soldering Gun that makes it super fast, no waiting for it to melt. I really love your site. Great stuff, and great work ethic. Thank you so much. I’m recently retired, not very healthy, but I’m a “picker”, I love for fix old broken stuff. It started when I was a kid. Someone threw away an old lamp, which I fixed up, and it was my lamp in my room until I got married. Wish I still had it. Thanks again Gary Drumm, The Dallas, Texas area.
The garage I used to hang out & work in was right down the road. its no longer there. Watching your videos musty reminds me of the years I worked there. I would just go down there to hang out sometimes or Tinker around on something. I wish I lived closer to you. I think you and I would get along great Mustie. I am 50 yrs old now & I can tell you were brought up around the same time I was. Good clean fun !👍🇺🇸
Your time, you claim, is worth $50.00/hr. looks like you might have at least 30 hours in it , so you would have to sell it for at least $1700.00 just to try and break even. Why would anyone pay that kind of money when they could find a much better motor bike for a lot less?
If I had only a short time to live, I would choose to spend my last moments working in the garage with Mustie 1. Corny but true.
Next time you build one of these, you should really try and hunt down a 1950s Sturmey-Archer hub dynamo rim. They are MUCH, MUCH better than the bottle jobs. The voltage they put out is stable and won't rise going fast (and by fast I mean like 12mph) like the bottle dynamos do. They won't wear on the tire and they are much more efficient. They put out 6vac at 500ma at maximum (3 watts) and only put maybe a 5 watt load on the pedals. IOW, you really can't even feel them, while the bottle dynamos put a much larger load on the system and you most certainly can feel them. The bottle dynamos aren't built very well, either the old ones or the ones they make today. They burn out easily and they have no bearings or at least no serviceable bearings. The Sturmey-Archer Dynamo hubs are very easy to rebuild, you just put new grease and ball bearings like you do with any other hub.
A bonus is they are vintage. They have been making them for many decades, I think back to the 40s.
Red light is Port side of a boat. White is on the back of a boat. This is one of the coolest gas bikes I have seen.I do like your others but this one is for me
your really smart I want to be like you when I grow up
have you thought of making a inductive heat coil for soldering
I found a bunch of people wanting to know information About the black knight bicycle. Do you care if I share your video with them
Don't mind the trolls, buddy! Sometimes I wouldn't do it the way you do, but it's your project & video, not mine! Keep up the great projects, fella! 🙂
One "secret" that I've discovered for sweat soldering is "tinning flux", it actually has solder paste in it so when you heat it up there is already solder in the joint and you don't have to rely strictly on capillary action to suck the solder in. I use the lead free stuff for household plumbing, don't know if they make the old PB/SN type that solders so well.
Mustie1, you do GREAT WORK, and I appreciate everything you do. (let me pass a little soldering trick to you. They make an all aluminum finned clothes-pin that you can clip between your work area and what you don't want getting un-soldered clip 2 on, so all degrees of surface area are contacted. This dissipates the heat safely. You can purchase them in electronic parts stores.
Again, I appreciate you.
Bill, from Tn. 🇺🇸
Boats have brake lights? LMAO Port side Mustie.
See Mr. Carlsons Lab (electronics).
He has a great and easy mod to a Soldering Gun that makes it super fast, no waiting for it to melt.
I really love your site. Great stuff, and great work ethic.
Thank you so much. I’m recently retired, not very healthy, but I’m a “picker”, I love for fix old broken stuff. It started when I was a kid. Someone threw away an old lamp, which I fixed up, and it was my lamp in my room until I got married. Wish I still had it.
Thanks again
Gary Drumm,
The Dallas, Texas area.
Very crafty and resourceful videos, very nice!
The garage I used to hang out & work in was right down the road. its no longer there. Watching your videos musty reminds me of the years I worked there. I would just go down there to hang out sometimes or Tinker around on something. I wish I lived closer to you. I think you and I would get along great Mustie. I am 50 yrs old now & I can tell you were brought up around the same time I was.
Good clean fun !👍🇺🇸
I think the shock ties it together in the middle.
I think it looks better not covered!
Your time, you claim, is worth $50.00/hr. looks like you might have at least 30 hours in it , so you would have to sell it for at least $1700.00 just to try and break even. Why would anyone pay that kind of money when they could find a much better motor bike for a lot less?
You should have left the filter screen on with that tube on your valve your tank will not drain all the way
trolls or complements pay the same, so keep egging Singleton on! More hundos for you.
I hope you never try to sell any of those death traps you work on, really opening yourself up to legal problems….your workmanship is horrific.