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    The rebuild progresses

    Nov 18, 2018 5 minutes
    Words: Tim Britton
    Pics:
    Tim Britton and Fiona Watson
    Box-out:
    Jerry Thurston

    A flurry of activity has resulted in the project Triumph frame having a coat of admittedly ‘rattle can’ black (but at least it looks tidier), some stainless steel from Andy Molnar and a few more pieces from Burton Bike Bits. The engine is now assembled, okay so the gearbox isn’t in yet but at least the cases are all together and the engine turns over. The cause of such activity? Finding a restoration of a Triumph TR5A/C on the internet, it looks so good I’m determined to have an assembled bike to work from.

    Quietly one evening I played the blowtorch over the castings so the bearings and various hollow dowels could easily drop in. The old method of determining when a casting is hot enough for such things to happen – spitting on it and if the spit

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