Three not of a kind
Jerry’s Jumbo
Jerry’s rolled up his sleeves and is pushing on to reach rolling frame stage with the SWM and so far he’s more than pleased with the results. Over the last few weeks, as I have continued with the SWM restoration, my mood has swung from cripes what-have-I-done when I find yet another problem, to ridiculous optimism when I work out how to solve it.
Of most concern was the holed primary chain case and the fact that it was a thin casting was bad enough, but it being made of magnesium only made matters worse. I thought it was scrap but J&S Engineering of Colwyn Bay obviously thought differently. I sent them pictures and expected them to tell me the bad news, but no. They said send it up and they would sort it out and they did! Their chap is obviously a magician – just a couple of coats of paint and it looks great.
My initial wants list has grown slightly as I have realised the front mudguard stays and the handlebars are wrong. Otherwise I’ve been lucky as considering the machine had been in bits for 20 years, very little had been lost.
With part two of the wants list compiled, getting the SWM down to bare frame ready for colour proved to be laughably easy. First though, I test fitted
